Another large Smyrna, much sweet crunchy and aromatic. A magnet for birds
Francisco

       

Hi Lampo,
Nice fig.
How do the birds taste :) ?
Just one or two general questions : How is your planning on your orchard ? How did you get that many named cultivars ? Through a nursery ?
Hope you have plenty of space with all those interesting strains... Or you'll have a bad time while trying to find which not to keep ...
I know that in Portugal most don't bother with keeping names ... So I was wondering how you got them labels on your trees .
One day when you have time, it would be interesting if you try to rank those strains one between the other in terms of quality of the fruits, and another ranking for the quantity of the fruits .
Keep them coming ! And growing :) .

I understand that most birds cant' taste sweet, hummingbirds being an exception. I wonder what it is the attracts them, and what birds are attracted?

Francisco great fig.
i remember Rafed had a  post about it with Hava, btw i see you like the smyrna's.

a question that i wanted to ask for sometime:
do pollinated smyrna's taste better than pollinated parthenocarpic/common ones?

Real nice, thanks for posting.

jds,

Thank you.
If you search on the f4f on previous topics and posts you will find most of the answers to your questions;.. plan is to root a selection of unknown varieties, make them show their first fruit, then give them to my friends.. this was the case for these last,, Zidi, Shenshare, Marabout, Bournabat, LTK, etc.. etc.. So,  I have a lot of fun, practice and experimenting   and keep always enough space for more new rootings..The ground figs are a different story, mostly local varieties, some rare, will be for my grand children.

Dale,

The big thieves are these fellows ...their popular name is 'charneco'.. Magpie (Cyanopica cooki)
I believe they know what to grab first. The small tree had 5 or 6 figs and they managed to steal all except this one I had covered with a newspaper.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsousa/3546624213/

They have developed a technique of stealing the full fruit and they always come in force, flocks of 15 to 20 !

Wonderful fig, This is a top fig of Syrian origin, it originated from a town called Shenshar. It usually bears large reddish figs with good flavor.
I've been hoping this fig wasn't a Smyrna type, but it is. 

Thank you all for your comments.

Eli,

Thank you.
Yes,  Rafed was apparently rooting this variety and if I am not wrong I promised to show the ripen fig when ready.
As for your questions, I must say that you right..I like growing these types of caducous figs. For me they are always very special-- The comparison you are asking, IMO , shall be difficult to do. Not all persistent figs react similarly to pollination.  However,  the varieties getting marked improvements shall be very close to the best Smyrnas (Violeta, Cotio Verdeal, Côtio Branco, the Bourjassottes..etc, are good examples)

Bass,

Thank you for your added details regarding this variety .I got this fig with the understanding that it needed pollination to ripen.

Francisco