Hello to everybody!
I am the fourth generation of picking figs from a fig tree way up in the mountain,and I hope next year I `ll be the first one to propagate it.
Fig is situated on the south of croatian region Dalmatia.
It has been rejuvenated for couple of times by cutting.
It is growing in the middle of stone wall,and it roots go way down the red soil slope.
I doubt it is rooted cuting(who would root it in the middle of the rock??) ,i think it is either grafted
or a natural hybrid.
Taste is marvelous,and it is excellent drying fig.
My ancestors didnt propagate it because it is hard to pick and it is late crop 15.08-30.09. 

Hi ljermontov,

fruit it looks very nice. it seems you have some tree pruning and maintenance to do :-)

what's the fruit weight?

It could be a natural cross or check old variety Zimnica eng. 'Wintery' (one late flush starting from late August, roundish fruit, leaves correspond) althow to me it looks slightly lighter couloured..

Werter1,you are right ,yes indeed it looks like Zimnica,Zimica,or whatever we call it.
But when I compare with Zimica in my village ,this one has, as you have noticed lighter coloured skin,and the fruit is more flat then round.
Also it arrives 10- 15 days earlier,but that could depend on location.

Yes,pruning and maintence is necessary :-)))  ,but the hills are full of wandering goats,and the last time I pruned it (15 years ago) goats have almost  destroyed it.
They ate leaves,young bark,young twigs.

My wife says to me that I am too lazy to take barbed wire up the hills :-D ,but I say God has prowided me with thorns and blacberries  as a barrier around it,
so  I leave as it is.
I have a bit of fuss picking it,but every year I have a good yield, better then on my fertilized figs.

Next year I am planing to propagate 20 - 25 plants from it.
I havent weight it but ,average fruit is  3.5 - 4 cm in width and 2.5-3.5 cm in height.

 
Harvesting in jungle :-)

Welcome "ljermontov" from a fellow Croatian! Nice fig.... You are lucky to have access to such as that. On the Island of Krk, where I hail from, there are loads of figs growing wildly all over the island as well as under cultivation by the various property owners. Figs certainly love the topography as well as the soil and the weather...

Cheers,
Tony (aka Mladen)

That looks like a nice fig! 
Looks like lots of breba figs on it.  Does that area have the wasp?

WOW very pretty.  Get some cuttings and share this... hopefully it will eventually make it to the US. hehe

That is a very nice looking fig, really nice shape and color. I bet it is delicious too.

Mike in Hanover, VA

Bump... @Ljermontov ... How did the winter treat your Crnica fig? Any other nice varieties you can share information with us about?

Joe - Not sure if you are aware but the original post for the "Crnica" fig I was inquiring about was located in the ourfigs forum at: https://www.ourfigs.com/forum/figs-home/105859-dalmatian-croatian-fig-varieties... In any case, the information on weather in the area that Crnica grows is in the following quote from that posting:

Those are beautiful and delicious looking figs!

Tad

Tony --

Thanks.  I hadn't connected the other thread.  My interest was transparent -- it'd be great to have another tasty cold-tolerant fig variety, even if it delivers only brebas.  It'd be awesome to get good, abundant brebas from an unprotected in-ground plant in Z6. 

I look forward to seeing how this story unfolds.

Joe

The story ends like this: this was the colder winter as I can remember.On some locations fig trees were damaged by frost.The Sušiovka variety was the most damaged ,maybe something 20 %of buds were frost burned.Crnica and Šarguja as I see proved to ne most frost proof,as I see only few top buds damaged. I have to check few more locations to give my final mark.