This is a very good white fig for the South. It is rain tolerant, bug resistant, and very productive. Here is a picture of one from last year. I left too many figs on my tree last fall and the tree was top killed this past winter. It has come back and will produce a crop of figs this year......so this one will produce figs from new growth from the roots.

Dan
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Dan..   Great photo. That is what I call a closed eye !
      Looks like a good fig for us in the rain and hurricane belt.  Fred

Dan:Very Valuable tree you have.
I see it is resistant to fig beetle and souring because of the closed eye.

This fig holds so tight to the tree that you almost need a knife or a pruning shears to cut if off.......no joke. Even when they die you have to pull them off. This fig has passed my fig trials and is one that I recommend to people in my area. It fruits all season long.

Dan
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Is that on of the trees from joe morle figtrees.net?

Yes, this tree comes from Joe Morle.

Dan
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Nice looking fig with a closed eye.

Dan, got a small one from Joe Morle early this year. Has had a few very good figs for first figs. I'm glad it's going to be a rain tolerant one. Got the Black Triana from him too, but the birds got my first fig---they could have left me a taste:o)). Thanks for your recommendation on these.

Tim,

This is a good one for the rainy South. It will continue to bear good tasting figs long after regular Celeste has stopped producing. And it will NEVER EVER drop its figs. Just don't let it try to ripen too many late season figs like I did. That silly mistake set my tree back a whole year.

Dan
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Cool, I was very tempted to order some trees from him this year, but going from zero to 40 trees (even though many are duplicates I don't plan to keep) was a lot for me this year. I think next spring I will be ordering a few...

Are these White Triana figs as sweet as Celeste? I'm very interested!

White Triana has a different taste profile than a regular Celeste. It is an excellent fig to have in addition to a regular Celeste. That is what I recommend to the people in my area........because it is rain tolerant and will produce good tasting figs long after their Celeste tree has stopped producing. This one will EXTEND your fig growing season. You can read all about it (including how it tastes) in the thread linked below. It is a rather long and cumbersome thread; but, you will find information on White Triana and many other cultivars that I grow. You will not find some of that information anywhere else as it is original info that I developed from my fig trials.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg0621220325558.html


Dan
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Thanks Dan! I could get one of these from you?

You can buy a tree from Joe Morle up in Boston. His prices are real good and no one packs a fig tree better for shipment than Joe.  Here is a link to his website.

http://www.figtrees.net/

Dan
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Excellent! Thank you :o)

Just checked my email and I sure did get your message. Even found a couple of forum member emails in my spam folder. Sorry guys. I need to check that folder more often.

Will reply tomorrow if I get a chance.  Going to bed right now. Taking my oldest grandson and his cousin crabbing in my newly renovated boat. Gotta get up at 4 am. If we do well as expected we will have a crab boil tomorrow evening. AAAeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Ca c'est bon oui!!

Life is so good living down here in Cajun country. You ought to know....being you're from New Jersey and stayed down here!!

Dan
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I met some Italians in my area who brought Triana straight from Italy, I'm about to stop by when the figs are ripening to compare to this one. 

I agree with Dan and Noss, great trees, great packaging and quick service from Joe Morle. I bought the small trees(Wht. & Blk. Triana) earlier this year and they  have grown very well and are bearing figs now. You won't be disappointed.

I've tried catching crabs several times this season, but because of the lack of rain, the large crabs were not able to travel into the marshes. I've been buying live jumbo blue crabs($20 for 2 dozen) to keep me satisfied, The rain is back on now finally, so crabbing ought to be better here.(Not too kind to my figs, though)Has anyone here tried the Fiesta BBQ Crab Seasoning? It's the closest to to the original that was used at Sartins and Channel Inn here in Sabine Pass years ago. You can order it @ fiestaspices.com if you can't find it locally. I'm making myself hungry.

Tim,

Many years ago I was on an assignment at the Texaco Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. During that visit, the locals took me to Sartin's restaurant at Sabine Pass where I had their "all you can eat seafood buffet". That buffet of literally unending fish, oysters, shrimp, crawfish, BBQ crabs, etc, etc, etc........only costs $8.00 per person at tables of 8 or more people.  Those were my first BBQ crabs I've ever had. They were simply outstanding!!!  

I was very much surprised to see that Texans do know how to "boil" seafood like we do down in Cajun country. Turns out there are a lot of Cajuns in the Port Arthur area. But for some strange reason.....Louisiana Cajuns have not picked up on that great tasting BBQ crab concept. I do prepare BBQ crabs and Singapore Chili crabs every once in a while.......wish there were a Sartin's in my area.

So, I've had BBQ crabs from the original Sartin's before those pesky hurricanes took it out. I vividly remember how they tasted. This may sound strange, but I really do have a "photographic taste perception". The crabs from the original Sartin's was wonderful stuff.  You are right that Fiesta's seasoning blend is very close to the original seasoning recipe. When I do mine, I Cajunize them a little bit by wetting the crabs just a bit with a sprinkle of Worcestershire sauce. One day I want to try add a bit of Worcestershire powder to the Fiesta seasoning......for the fun of experimenting with that great Texan technique.

Bass,

Here is one test that you might try. Note how hard or how easy the figs come off of the tree. The figs from my White Triana hold on very tight to the branch.....so tight that you almost need to cut them off with a knife. None of the figs on my other fig trees hold on so tight.

I ate at the Sartin's in Sabine Pass several times. It was a little expensive for the platter service but it was really good. They have a Sartin's in Bridge City Texas now. I haven't been, but my brother has been a couple times. I recently ate at D I's Restaurant  near Basile Louisiana and they had some real good barbeque crabs.

Chapman,

I called it a buffet.....however, "platter service" was actually what we had. It was a long time ago. It only cost us $8.00 per head. I was young in those days.

Dan
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Dan, my dad worked at that Texaco refinery in Port Arthur as do both of my sons and son in law--now called Motiva Enterprises(Shell & Saudi Aramco). That platter service is now about $25-$26. I'm surprised more Cajuns in Louisiana haven't taken up the practice. My only problem with Sartin's is they put too much of the seasoning on & they are almost inedibley salty for me & I do like my salt. I cut back on the seasoning on mine and they are much more pleasant to eat and still salty and delicious. The worchestershire sounds like a great addition, I'll try it.

Chapman, I didn't know Sartin's was in Bridge City too. I'll have to check it out. There is one in Nederland and in Beaumont aslo.

I think it is Bridge City according to my brother. Maybe he was talking about the one in Nederland.  They also had the Channel Inn in Sabine Pass. After Sartins closed I went there a few times. They had good food too.

Tim,

I'm actually retired from the Texaco Refinery in Convent, La. Received three different retirement checks because the refinery changed ownership over the 34 years that I worked there. One from Chevron/Texaco, another from Star Enterprise, and another from Motiva Enterprises. It was a real pleasure working for Texaco and I got a chance to work on some projects at some of their other facilities. I had a chance to meet some real nice people and some very bad winter fig weather in Illinois and New Jersey. And some excellent fig weather in California. I was not into figs at the time of those visits. I did not know what cold was until I experienced Chicago winter weather.

Dan
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