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Taken about a week ago.

How was the flavor at this time of year?

Not summer quality, but worth eating.

Jon,
I have seen that same white round ring in your other photos.  What is the diameter of it?

Cathy

It is exactly 1". And even when it is oval, because of the angle of the camera, it still measures 1" at the widest point.

Jon,

I wonder how this fig will do as a commercial crop for areas with warm winters. It would be desirable to have a crop while all other trees are dormant.
I will be sending a couple of small plants of these to Trinidad island in the Caribbean, where temperatures are always the same. I wonder how it will do there. 
I have found that birds down in the caribbean are attracted to dark figs but they will usually leave the green figs alone. So this variety should have two advantages, bearing at different time of the year and not attractive to birds. 

Bass, late varieties would do well. My brother in Malaysia lives about a kilometer from the beach and his figs grows year round. Lately I have been sending him late varieties. Small suckers like 4" to 5" with few roots have all produced for him in under 12 months. He grows them in pots. Birds are huge problems with dark figs there.

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