Holy moly, I had to pick a Sicilian Black fig early because some little critter has been munching on them. Even though it was a bit premature, The taste was amazing! Extremely sweet, with excellent flavor and the figs love the heat and get pretty big!



They usually get nice and dark when ripe.

Wow, that looks really good Howie. Mine is now about 5' tall with 31 figs on it. Yess.. I counted :). Now I'm really exited.

That looks very nice.

nice rolex sub there. fig doesn't look half bad either :)

I have a little one and it has one fig on it now. I am hoping it becomes my new favorite as well.

Howie,

This past June has been very warm and humid in south Arkansas. I got the plant right before winter. It was almost a foot tall. Freeze killed most of the green woods until about 6in of good hardened wood left above the soil. When spring came, sicilian black and atreano outgrew everything else in the yard.

JR used to have Sicilian Blk. Hence is this variant from him(JR). If I am not mistaken, there are a
few figs known as Sicilian Blk.

I got mine from johnsvmf1 on ebay last October if I'm not mistaken.

Nice to know. I have two rooted from cuttings I received from a very generous forum member this past winter. Now I just need to wait. That's the part I'm not very good at...

It is always awkward when things like that get figured out, making frenemies ; )

The fig in the first post is Sicilian Black JR,just like I have.
I also had Sicilian Black,from Italian Fig trees,similar to Hardy Chicago,but ,badly infected with Fig mosaic virus,and a real; loser.