View:
http://www.hawaiifruit.net/figposterproofWEB.jpg

Order:
http://www.localharvest.org/fig-poster-C10300

Real nice, wish I could read it. Thanks for Posting.

I don't know if Martin would like this...a lot of pale face figs!

Is that one of Jon's photos?  I remember he had a picture a lot like that one, with the dark background and lots of figs.

Mike

Where is Martin...;/

Well if Martin is gone, its you Aaron and me that need to carry on the torch......LOL

Martin would definitely NOT approve.

Hi Rafaelissimo,
You should add a disclaimer for Dieseler :)
Why the hell that many of greenish figs ?

The poster was done by Ken Love in September 2007. He and I were both as WEO at the same time, but did not know each other before then. He was photographing the collection and evaluating fruit fruit to try in Hawaii, and I was there taking photographs and evaluating fruit to see what cuttings to order. He had the advantage of professional photo equip from his career as a news photographer. I had my 3MP point and shoot Olympus.

You will notice the predominance of yellow skinned figs, due in part to the many figs that were products of the Condit breeding program in the 50s. The goal of the project was to produce a "common" fig that was the equivalent of Calimyrna: thus the interest in figs that were the same color as Calimyrna, and hence a large part of their predominance in the collection.

...Which led to the development of the Sierra Fig. Would love to try one!

Sierra was produced from a different program, as I understand it.

I don't know who made Martin "King,"  But a true fig lover loves them all.  Black, white, green, pink, yellow...  We all have our opinions.  The goal is to find a fig that grows in your specific climate (and not all do), that produces glorious tasty figs. 

I have gotten a little jaded after I tasted the Kadota.  Fresh, amazing.  Dried, shrug.

Suzi

I don't discriminate between black and white; I am an equal opportunity fig lover.

The breeders that developed Sierra and Sequoia had somewhat different goals than Condit, but not a lot different, IMO.  My Sierra produced just a few ripe fruit last year and I was not impressed.  Howard has stated that the Sierra at Wolfskill has been productive and he included it in the tasting last year (same day as Jon's Fig Fiesta so I was not there).  A friend of mine that was at Howard's tasting last year (and is growing Sierra himself) also did not particularly care for the fruit.  I've seen photos of other fruits that were developed by a continuation of the same program and they continue to be green or yellow figs, thick skins, resistant to cracking, tight eyes, common, etc.

Ken Love is a pretty good friend and he comes to California every now and then and hope to have him drop by my place the next time he is here (he's gone to a health clinic a 90 minutes away).