I had an opportunity to visit a friend in LA yesterday who grows 50+ kinds of figs, several of which I have gotten from him and vice versa, over the years. It was eye opening to see how differently they performed and looked in his location, less than 100 miles from me. I will post pix over the next several weeks, when I get time, to illustrate the difficulty in identifying figs. Some I couldn't even recognize. 

I'm guessing LA gets more heat than San Diego. The same variety does look different between east and west coast, but within 100 miles and you're still getting a different looking fig? Figs are strange.... and fun at the same time.

This is an unknown "Black JacK" fig.



The "funny" thing is that both of these figs came off of the same tree, grown in a pot. I watched it with my own eyes. Nothing in common between these two figs. And, being from the same tree, they obviously don't have differences in culture (soil, fertilizer, water, etc.) and had no obvious differences in sun/shade, etc.

Is it the color or size that you found unusual or both.
Martin

My Enrico MB exhibits similar colour characteristics - probably one was more shaded by a leaf & the other not as is in my case. Taste wise - no difference.

Jon
When you say 'Unknown Black Jack' or 'Unknown Pastillier', do you mean that the figs are surely Black Jack and Patillier type but your procurement source is unkown? Just want to clear my doubt.

I was referring to both size and color disparity between these two fruit. Shade was not an issue.

Unknown refers to known source, but unknown fruit identification. U.P. was an unknown which was guessed to be a Pastiliere, and acc to some people definitely is, though I am not yet convinced. U.B.J. was an unknown (the purple form) that looked a lot like a Black Jack, until this year when it had two completely different looking fruits on it.

I think one is a true breba fig and the other represents the main crop off the same tree. I observed similar differences in my Kadota figs this year. I did not have an early crop but of the figs ripening now, some have very long stems and others, barely any. Some of the figs are very yellow and others grass green. Go figure.

Leon,

These were ripe the same day. Any examples of breba and main crop figs ripening simultaneously? I admit I didn't look closely enough to see if the large one was on the old growth. I will check and see what my friend knows about the breba possibility. It was not the first different pair he had had from this tree.