UPDATE: 8/14/2014 - is my Peter's Honey, the one with the purple lining in the pulp, a fake?  Lets compare against yours.  How is your Peter's Honey fruit?


   i would trade all of them for the Hollier. It had some 20 ants trying to eat it, so I anticipated it to be sour. Wrong! A tiny fig with the most delicious flavor and sweetness.  The others were also very good. PH with purplish was meetier.  If I had eaten them with eyes shut, I would not have said it was a fig. Each has its own unique flavor.  I love my first samples.
   

 I am giving them one more day to open them to compare.

This Adriatic is from a different tree than those that I sent out to many of you. I bought this from a man who said it was Adriatic (he advertised on Craigslist - being of Mediteranean heritage, he ad mulberry , pomogranate and this tree that was eating the coil of drip hose that was left by its roots. He just shoved the cuttings in a large garbage can and if they root, he transfers to pots and sells them. My tree was 2 years old when I bought it, and now it gave me about 6 large brebas and it is loaded with main crop.  Very good for our Seattle weather.

The Pete's Honey was a 6 y.o. gift. it was in a wine barrel, had horrible branches, the owner said it never produced anything for him,  but It was too late for trim roots, I coiled the long branches, now it has lots of  new growth and put out a dozen of brebas, all aborted, but three of them.  They are huge. This fall I am going to unpot it, trim its roots or plant it in the ground. I did not fertilize at all, only water and will have many cuttings in the fall, if anyone is interested.

Hollier is a year old, it put out a lot of brebas and main, but I knocked most of them, just left a few for me to test it.  I like how it looks.

Grasa,

They look good! Congratulations getting your first figs this year! 
My Peter’s Honey has not produced anything yet, thanks for showing the fruit, now I know what to expect.

nice!
keep us posted!

Grasa,

Sorry, newb question here...

What does "coiling its branches" mean?

Thanks.

Grasa: Very nice figs, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Nice pics, your hollier has a longer stem then I am use to seeing. My hollier is more round.

Grasa,

Very nice looking, congrats!!

smith, look at these pictures. this is where I got my idea of coiling the very long arms, rather than pruning them.  Now, I can force the tree to be lower and determine what branches to keep.  


check out the link:

http://www.hawaiifruit.net/aifarm/aifigfarm.html

updated with more pictures.

Grasa, glad to hear Hollier is doing well for you in Seattle, I have friends on Vashon Island who have asked my advice of varieties to try. They have a large fig tree in the yard I suspect is Vashon Violet that they enjoy. My understanding is this is the same as Brunswick, I have cuttings rooted and that is what the leaves appear to be.

Mike in Hanover, VA

Grasa

Glad to see you having success this summer. Thanks for sharing pics! =)

Mike, tell your friends to call me when they are in the Seattle area. I will have an airlayer of my unknown purple. it is very productive and amazing fig. I am reducing the size of my large tree to a more manageable size. it is some 20+feet high. since last year, I already reduced one of the largest trunks (it had 4).  I have planted several of them on my parking strip.  Anytime after it cools down, they can come and I am more than happy to dig one up for them.   my tree produces brebas and main ripening all the way into November. was never protected from the weather.

That's very generous of you Grasa, I need to get them on the forum, they are a nice family that moved there from Richmond, VA last year. I'll pass your kind offer on to them :)

Mike in Hanover, VA

Grasa, both of the tiny shoots of Unknown Dark Seattle you sent me, along with the big box of goodies for my daughter and our garden, are growing.
Thank you so much....and I might add...You didn't except any payment!
God bless your gentle and generous heart :)

Update with a question to all:  Is my Peter's Honey a fake?  (meaning, was it mislabeled at the nursery?)

Hi Grasa,
Congrats !
My brebas on "Dalmatie" exposed as well that red line (last year that line was blue-violet), so it could be that PH is exposing a red line in the brebas only.
I would wait on the main-crop to look further at identifying it - lots of people on the forum seem to knock the brebas . Pics of the general aspect of the tree and on leaves will help as well ...