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The MotherInLaw's Fig

This variety I acquired from my cousins motherinlaw, this tree has been very famous in the neighborhood for a while now. 
Last year it was heavily pruned and some cuttings were brought to me. I am growing 4-5 of 'em already in 1G nursery pots.
Here's some pics of the figs and leaves from the mother tree or should I say The Motherinlaw's Fig tree...They were delivered fresh to me , today.
Very sweet /honey taste with no acidity, with mild figgie aroma. The skin was as sweet as the pulp itself with no roughness to the tong...I could eat 50 and no tong tingle...or whatever some figs do due to the micro spikes that they have on the skin.
Almost completely closed Ostiole lets the fig ripen with no souring and spoilage.
Overall, I am glad I have this variety.
If someone IDs it I would greatly appreciate it.

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Aaron, they look good, must be good. Good for you.

Hi Aaroon4usa,
I think torture on mother in law is legal . So go ask her for infos.
It looks like a smyrna . Is it or not ? From which country could that come ?
To me, it looks like a north African or Greek fig (from a warm climate country), but I can be wrong. For sure, that figs don't look like anything usually found here at least .
Good luck with that beautiful strain !

Looking good, but I have no clue.

Whatever it is, that fig looks so good.

jd, not sure if it has breba or not yet... since these in the picture above are already of main crop.
From what I remember this one was bought by her brother as a little 5 gal tree from Fresno and, later, a little one(from the cutting)was given to her.
So the main starter tree is at her brothers garden in Valencia...I might see him soon, I'll ask him.

There were a lot of Adriatic figs planted around here years ago. Looks similar to me.

I was wondering the same, Brianm.  My boss reports his tree to be prolific, consistant w/ Aaron's reporting.

As a rule, I never found anything of use from mother-in-laws, but this does look like an exception to the rule. I suppose somebody else's mother-in-law is ok and not covered by the overall rule.   wiz_b001.jpg

Is Adriatic a Bifera or Unifera?
I haven't seen Driatics' Ostiole yet to compare, since, the Ostiole of this one is pretty tightly closed as you can see too in the pics.
I don't know if this tree produced Brebas...but this seems to be the main crop.

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Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

I have Adriatic and it's loaded with first year in ground figs.  Nice, healthy tree.  Fingers crossed the figs look and taste as good as yours (I know yours is really an unknown) when they ripen.

Suzi

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Originally Posted by Aaron4USA
jd, not sure if it has breba or not yet... since these in the picture above are already of main crop.
From what I remember this one was bought by her brother as a little 5 gal tree from Fresno and, later, a little one(from the cutting)was given to her.
So the main starter tree is at her brothers garden in Valencia...I might see him soon, I'll ask him.

OK,
Update of some History of the "Mother'n Law Fig"
I met the brother of the lady who has the mother tree of this variety.
He told me that the tree grew from seed and came out from the Under the house where the house vent was on a sunny side...must've run down there with rain water or something...anyway, they kept cutting it and cutting it every year until one year there was no one to cut it down and by the summer the tree gave fruit and that changed their mind from destroying it from once and for all to transplanting it 2-3 feet away from the house at the same area of the sunny side.
I'm glad this mystery is solved...
Now I can run and register it and name it whatever I want, LOL  (maybe)

Edit: Oh, and  in regards to the brother's fig tree that came from Fresno..., He's giving me a baby one that branched into "Y" shape, only 2' tall and carries 9 figs on it, another white fig...we shell see what it is soon. 

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Originally Posted by Aaron4USA
This variety I acquired from my cousins motherinlaw, this tree has been very famous in the neighborhood for a while now. 
Last year it was heavily pruned and some cuttings were brought to me. I am growing 4-5 of 'em already in 1G nursery pots.
Here's some pics of the figs and leaves from the mother tree or should I say The Motherinlaw's Fig tree...They were delivered fresh to me , today.
Very sweet /honey taste with no acidity, with mild figgie aroma. The skin was as sweet as the pulp itself with no roughness to the tong...I could eat 50 and no tong tingle...or whatever some figs do due to the micro spikes that they have on the skin.
Almost completely closed Ostiole lets the fig ripen with no souring and spoilage.
Overall, I am glad I have this variety.
If someone IDs it I would greatly appreciate it.

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Looks like a great fig Aaron..I lived in São Paulo for many years and my wife is from Brasil.
so many plants in Brasil have this "Mother In Law" name..

My neighbor has a fig tree that produces leaves and fruits that are nearly identical. She has no idea what it is. I have no idea what it is. But since you said it grew from seed, it's unlikely that my neighbor has the same variety. But Aaron, if I hadn't known that it grew from seed, I would have thought it was Galbun, or Emerald Strawberry.

Hi Dan,
It does remind of both in parts.
Galbun has Finger like lobes where this one has rounded non finger like lobes.
Emerald Strawberry comes very close to it but the skin of ES has translucent veins going towards the ostiole and skin looks tight and a bit shiny, and ostiole of ES is a bit open where this one has a tight ostiole.

Could be that this Mother'n Law fig is offspring from one part from either plus something else that gives it the softer skin, it rips to the touch when ripe...

Joe,

    Major benefit of mother-in-law is provision of spouse, and spouse who cooks.

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