This thread is asking for experiences of mild summer climate fig growers who have experience in cultivating bifere figs or very early main crop figs.

Which varieties have regularly ABUNDANT AND AROMATIC figgy tasting BREBA crop in Zone 5-7a?
The most sensational tasting figs is not interesting to me if the Breba crop is just some few figs.
BT figs are cropping abundant here but I would not waste space for those flavor-lacking figs.

Please name varieties which make a good compromise between those goals. Winter hardiness is not important at all cause I can handle this problem quite well. This winter even a young Grise de Saint Jean plant survied with nothing but one layer of cardboard on it here in Germany.

Thanks for your comments..

I believe that Rond de Bordeaux and Lyndhurst White can meet those criteria.

Another option is a breba-only variety such as desert king. It does extremely well in our cool summer in Vancouver Canada, and its breba is good tasting.

What do you think of the usual suspects:
Negronne, Longue d'aout, Sultane, Brunswick, Doree, Violette de Bordeaux, Celeste, Black Mission,....

Is their Breba crop abundant enough to grow the tree just for it?

Excel and Kadota seem to have really tiny Breba crop. Normally main crop is too late for mild short summers. Same for unifere mid season varieties like Col de Dame.

Is anyone out there who succesfully ripens their fruit regularly without the use of greenhouses in a region where summers are short and temps go down significantly in their typical ripeing time (at my place mid to end september, Brebas ripen end of July to mid August).
 
I am always talking of inground only figs!

In my cool climate Zone 6 we have done very well with Desert King (a san pedro) as a primary 1st crop producer in Early August.  Great tasting fig if you let it ripen fully.
Also Sicilian Black proved to be an amazing 1st crop producer of large black figs with a rich taste.  It also produces late main crop.
Others have these figs in ground and protected for the winter and they are producing for them.
I planted my desert king in ground last year so I will see this year how it fared in ground for me. 
My Sicilian black will go in ground this year as well.
There are many positive comments on Grantham's Royal (a San Pedro type) producing many and great tasting 1st crop figs.

Most common figs are bifare and produce 2 crops.  In cold climates how many 1st crop figs you get depend a lot on how well you protect them for the winter. 
Also my in ground fico bianco produces some 1st crop figs mid-July and a ton of main crop in September.   Juicy and very sweet honey flavour.

Of course this question aims on fig trees that are growing inground but have been protected perfect from frost.

My trees are all young so I cannot say which variety has abundant breba....maybe I should give abundant a defition:
BT has a fruit on almost every node it made, sometimes even 2 per node.
Besides there is trees having one fruit every 2 or 3 nodes. Even if those fruits where of giant size I wouldn't call the overall crop abundant.


Desert King is definte, yes. The f4f leaves no question bout this.

But is this abundant crop just a natural reaction on the absence of main crop?
Or in other words: would nearly every bifere var. be of abudant breba crop if we artifically made it "san Pedro" by pinching main crop?

Sorry I don't know the botanical properties at play for the 1st crop production. 

But to me the Sicilian Black was as abundant as Desert King.  Here are a couple of postings with some photos;

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1288003493&postcount=1&forum=0

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1288048249&postcount=1&forum=0

Breba production is NOT a function of pinching Main Crop figs off of San Pedro or any other type of Fig!  The tree either naturally produces an abundant Breba Crop or it doesn't.

Desert King is known worldwide for its Breba Crop.

Here in Seattle the only Fig that produces more than Desert King is the Caprifig "Gillette" (aka Croisic) in its Profichi Crop.

Brunswick produces few Brebas but their size and "figgy" flavor (here in Seattle, but I'm told Brunswick Brebas aren't fit for birds to eat in New Jersey due to their climate while ripening) make up for lack of quantity.  Brunswick is also one of the most Cold Hardy Figs.

Negronne (aka Violette de Bordeaux) produces a moderate Breba Crop.

Olympian (a variety found in Olympia Washington) appears to be very promising for Breba Production based on the past two years in a pot and the quantity of Brebas currently forming for 2016.

"Dan's Favorite" and "Gene's Vashon" (possibly the same variety) both produce moderate Breba Crops of very good tasting Figs.

None of the other varieties in my collection (over 30, mostly in pots, many which have not yet produced any Figs) do any more than a Moderate Breba Crop.

Celeste is effectively Unifera in Seattle.

Best to look at Ira Condit's "Fig Varieties: A Monograph" (available as a downloadable PDF from my website) and read his descriptions of crop production and rule out any Varieties he says produce few or no Brebas.

Happy Growing,   kiwibob Seattle
See my website:  http://sites.google.com/site/kiwifruitsalad2

Based on my PNW experience the top brebas producing variants & reliable are

Granthams Royal
Desert King
Gilette

Others like Longue d'Aout, Latarrula, Osborne Prolific, Filancciano, Giebhubl does produce a decent breba crop.
Brunswick -- worth growing even if it is brebas. Any time a nicely ripen Brunswick breba that ripens in the right
conditions will beat all the above named figs except Granthams Royal. 

Other known breba variants are Lampa Preta. I am not sure whether Lamperia and Lampa Preta are the same 
variant. Also, Adriano's web site says Kori Gol is a good producer. Fig collecter Gene's Cajun Gold variant is worth
a try.

My Excel was small last year, but put out a few amazing brebas.

Well, I need a good catalog from which to order some of these "breba" producers. Any idea where I can find one?

Paully's advice re: filacciano bianco is worth heeding, it is a good breba producer similar to Desert King.