Good day! I am happy as I can be! This year, I started testing my knowlege about figs. Here is one of my unknown green fig that I pick this morning at 7AM! HA, I got to it before the catbirds and mockingbirds did! HA HA HA! Well, I cheated a tad bit. This tree is in a 3 gallon pot. I moved it near my garage door. For months, I called this fig unknown because my main label faded away. I called this fig Strawberry before knowing the truth. Last year I started double labeling my container trees. One big white 3 inch label marked with a sharpie and another 2 inch label marked with a pencil. The label marked with a sharpie faded away. I buried small label into the soil. After digging around the side of the pot, I found the label---Strawberry! I was right! Sometimes it pays to have a backup!
I did not take a picture of the leaf pattern because the tree has both 3 and 1 lobes. I knew it's wasn't Verte or JH Adraitic. Both V and JH-A are a tad bit smaller and dark red inside. I have V and JH-A growing in my orchard. This fig looks nothing like those. It is a breba. It was sweet but not very sweet. The mother tree has figs on but no brebas. The past 3 months, I test my knowledge what this fig could be knowing the backup tag was inside. I knew it was Strawberry by the way it grew, taste, and leaf pattern.
I winterize it inside my garage and this Spring, it just kept growing and growing. In the past my mother tree had figs that were more round and a little larger. This one is a little long but again it's a breba. This tree is a keeper! I was going to give this tree away but changed my mind after tasting this bad boy! I'm going to pot it up in a 15 gallon superoot pot tonight and winterize in inside my garage this winter. Thanks for watching every one! Have a good fig year!
