pitangadiego
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It is time to begin tracking the ripening order of our figs. If each member posts only once with what is ripening each week in his/her yard, and then uses the edit function to update the same post each week, or so, it will keep the thread shorter and neater. ;-)) |
| | pitangadiego
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This season will be different than the ones that have gone before. We have had some unusual weather patterns this season (hot, cold, hot cold, etc.). So things are ripening earlier, but some are dropping without ripening, or ripening as if they were caprifigs.
07-23-2008
The first fig to ripen this season was a Brown Turkey, in a 5g pot, from a UC Davis cutting. A Rattlesnake Island is nearly ripe today, from an in-ground plant, planted about 8 weeks ago, so may still have "pot" influences on its' behavior.
All pots are 5 gallon, unless noted.
Week of 07-20-2008
Brown Turkey, UC Davis, in-pot.
Rattlesnake Island, in ground 2 months.
GM #4 heavy fruiter, but dropping fruit.
Snowden dropping fruit.
Violette Soleis dropping fruit.
Week of 07-27-2008
Quarter Pounder, in ground 2 months. Definite keeper.
Greek Kephlonia, in-pot.
291-4, in ground 3 mos ago.
153-17, in-pot.
Black Mission Q, in-pot.
Hollier RM, in pot. Milder, but very nice for first fruit.
Giant Amber, in-pot.
Vista/Violette de Bordeaux, in ground.
Double Header, in ground. Getting better with age.
Bifara, in ground 3 months.
Santa Margherita, Inground.
Unknown Pastiliere dropping fruit (not unusual early on).
Portland 3, in ground.
Wells Weep, in ground.
Nero Caesar, in ground.
LSU Gold, in ground.
Lemon, in ground.
Brown Turkey PM, in ground (looks like a Celeste, actually).
St. Anthony, in ground.
Pratt Purple, in pot.
Barnisotte, in ground.
Kokini/Faliciano (not sure which), in ground 3 months.
Week of 08-03-2008
Osborn Prolific, in ground 3 months.
Petit Negri, in pot.
Black Provence, in pot.
Santa Cruz Dark, in pot.
Celeste PN, in pot.
White Greek, in ground.
Brown Turkey SD, in pot.
171-59, in ground.
309-B-1, in ground.
Dark Portuguese, in ground.
Deanna, in ground.
Danny's Delite.
Osborn OC, in ground.
Armenain, in ground.
Week of 08-03-2008
Kennedy, in ground.
Galbun, in ground.
Red Italian, in ground.
Hardy Chicago, in ground.
135-15s, in ground.
Portland 1, in ground.
Unknown Pastiliere, in ground.
Nazarti, in ground.
Mega Celeste, in pot.
Abeberiera, in ground 2 months.
White Kadota, in pot.
Raspberry Latte, in ground.
White Ischia, in ground.
NSA No. 1 Green, in ground.
Violette de Bordeaux EL, in ground.
Shih Berdy 3, in ground.
Blue Giant 0-, in ground.
Panache, in ground. Best it has ever been.
Week of 08-10-2008
Capelas, in ground.
Osborn 4, in ground.
Jurupa DW, in pot.
Encanto, in ground.
Celeste GM, in ground.
Gazir, in ground.
King, in ground 3 months.
LSU Purple, in ground.
Golden Celeste, in ground.
White King SD06, in ground 3 months.
Monstrueuse, in ground 3 months.
St. Jerome, in ground 3 months.
Hardy Chicago, in ground.
Celestial, in ground.
Black Madeira, in ground.
Coffee/Raspberry Latte, in ground, 3rd season seedling.
Week of 08-17-2008
Black Ischia, in ground.
Brunswick
Green Italian
309-B-1
Brown Turkey HD
Diredo
Nardine
White King 3
Galbun
GM 3
Monstrueuse
St. Jerome
Sucrette
Zidi
Norman's Yellow
Ventura DW
Negronne
Fico Santo
Black Provence
Calvert
Santa CRuz Dark
Celeste PN
Santa Margherita
Celeste 3
Celeste 4
Hollier RM
Ishia White
White Kadota
Week of 08-24-2008
Aldo's
Khurtmani
Yellow Neches
Violette de Bordeaux EL
Browm Turkey MD
Brooklyn White BS
184-15
Long Yellow
278-127
Igo
Sicilian Bifara 64
Celeste Ison
Celeste SD06
Lost tag
Tena
White Marseilles CM
Parsotta
Violette Soleis
Week of 08-31-2008
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| | Herman2
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New Jersey --zone6b
July 24 2008
Brebas:
Desert King Very good
Marseilles vs black- Excellent
Hardy Chicago - Very good
English Brn.Trk. - Average
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Aug.14 2008 ___Main crop
Celeste -Excellent
Marseilles vs Black -Close to Excellent
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Aug 22-2008 Main crop
Sal's#1(gene strain) - Very ,very good
Conadria DFIC5 - -Good
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AUG 25--2008 Main crop
Barnisotte Black -Excellent
Blue Celeste-- Excellent
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Aug 29--2008 main crop
Beal -- Excellent
Gino's Fig --Excellent+ closed eye
Violette de Bordeaux(Raintree) -- Excellent,but not a VDB,in my opinion???
LSU Gold -- Very good
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September 2--2008--main crop
Green Ischia --(Splitting)(only the first one did) good
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September-5 2008
Archipel -- Good
Wht. Texas Everbearing -- Very sweet,but not all fruit are ripening this year due to fact that it needs hotter climate to be best.
Sicilian black(Italian fig trees) -- very Good
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September 7 2008
Aldo fig -- Very Good
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September 10 2008
Atreano -- Very good Tasting(not like Brown turkey as it was sugested)
Unknown #5 (G MIchalev)-- Excellent in all respects
San Pietro---good,but tree grows painfully slow
UCD- 143-36 ---very good,so far the best I have seen coming from Davis reaserch,and I tried a dozen till now.I have found most of them to be Wishi Washy,as one might say.
Yet this one is good but Nothing is done with it ,not even to give it a proper name.
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Tacoma Violet-very good and adapted to our weather.
Weeping Fig:Good Tasting large fig
Brown Turkey #2:(G Michalev)--The best Brown Turkey so far.
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September 17-2008
Marylane seedless--Very good and seedless indeed!!!
Later on at end of September Splitted open,and soured, after 4 days of rain.
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September 20-2008
Stella--Very good large figs
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September 28-2008
English Brown Turkey-Good enough for this week rainy weather!!!
Bayernfeige Violetta-Just as good as English Brn Trk,and adapted to rain too.This 2 Like Hotter weather than we had this year.
Most fruits refuses to finish ripening,because of cold.
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Octomber 5-2008
Zingarella-Excellent
Paradiso-First fig on this and it was sour on tree.Will wait,for another to evaluate.Two More ripe fruits eaten by Squierels this time despite net.
Mission-First fig eaten by my dogs,will wait for another to evaluate.
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Oct.6-2008
Mission-Very good for the bad climate we have this year.
Later 2 more ripe fruits eaten by squierels,despite Net cover.
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Wed.Oct 15
Malta Black: Very good tasting small fruited fig
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Monday Octomber 20
Today we had frost and the top leaves are burned on most figs.
I was harvesting another 2 pounds of ripe figs today from My Marseilles vs black fig,and Sal's (Gene strain)wich is under net.
Squierells decimated the other larger trees,Hardy Chicago and another Mars.VS,wich are too big for nets.
The end of season is close but some tree will ripe a few good figs even after frost.
There are a lot more fruits near ripe on many trees.
We will see.!!!!
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Saturday Nov.1
Last 3 Days I had a few very tasty ripe fruits,from:Marseilles vs black,Violette de Bordeaux(raintree),Zingarella,Ischia Green,Sal's (GEne strain)And Beall.
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2009
I am happy to report:
July 17 2009
First Ripe fruits here in Willingboro NJ
Desert King breba
Sweet Georg (Viena Fig,from GM collection)Breba
See Pixes Below
Will coment about taste and flavor in a couple of days ,as i leave them longer on tree to get maximum possible flavor.
This Year Desert King is about one week sooner in getting ripe fruits.
Sweet Georg,is an young tree,(second year),and fruited first ,now.
Happy Gardening
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| | HarveyC
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I only have three bearing figs right now so my list will be short!
Today, 7/24 I ate my first Jurupa and it was very nice. One more tomorrow, probably.
I haven't bought any bird netting but have used my pellet gun to discourage the mocking birds. I have no idea why I saved the nest from one of my cats this past spring!
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Zone 6a in NW Arkansas here: have a low chill hour PETIT NEGRONNE 25 miles North of my home in Fayetteville: picked 1st Ripe yesterday, 7/30.
This tree was air-layered from the mother plant less than a year ago, spent the winter in a greenhouse and is now 7' high and still growing! Hard to believe & I can't explain it.
Many more figs to come but 3 other Negronne's not fruited yet, let alone ripe!
Flavor: outstanding, poss. could be a tad sweeter.
8/1 we picked our first BLACK JACK & BLACK MISSION. Our BJ had honey-colored flesh, unlike that shown in Jon's Fig varieties. Both plants are 2 years old purchased this past spring--NEITHER plant is impressive as to vegetative vigor or quantity of fruit.
Things are really heating up now. So far, have only had to irrigate a handful of times this year, lots of rain--very unusual.
9/25 Yes, VERY unusual: NO HEAT since the end of July!-- Sortof like San Diego coastal weather, come to think of it. But mid-September brought clear days in the 80's = Indian Summer so...
I am beginning to get another round of declicious NEGRONNE.
We'll be lucky to get a dozen GENOA--worst crop in 10 years!
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| | vern_2006
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Zone 7B Northwest Arkansas
07/28/08
Violette de Burdeaux
07/29/08
Italian Purple?
Marseilles, Black VS
07/30/08
Celeste breba
08/01/08
Hardy Chicago
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| | Herman2
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7B North Georgia
6/15/08 Peter's Honey Breba 6/20/09 Peter's Honey Breba--Large fig with yellow pulp, mostly sweet, not too "figgy" Not many seeds.
6/26/09 Violette de Bordeaux Breba
6/27/09 Lowe's Celeste Breba
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7/25/08 7/28/09 Peter's Honey Yellow pulp. Soft seeds. Can be very sweet if allowed to turn yellow and soften. Flavor delicate, honey-like. Figs have a large eye that is sealed by sap. Susceptible to splitting during times of heavy rain.
7/31/08 Brown Turkey
7/31/08 Celeste
8/7/08 8/4/09 Lowe's Celeste Splits and sours in the rain. Large fig with blue veins in brown skin. Skin thick. Pulp pink to red and juicy. When ripe and weather is dry very good taffy molasses or watermelon. High sugar content good for preserves.
8/7/08 8/15/09 Violette de Bordeaux Black skin. Dark red flesh. Intense raspberry/pineapple flavor. Lots of seeds. Thin skin. Different, but very good.
8/10/09 Osborne Prolific Rust colored skin, yellow flesh, sweet.
8/14/08 7/28/09 Hardy Chicago Has a berry taste here. Strawberry to raspberry. Holds up great in wet weather. Purple when ripe. 9/14/09 Col de Dame (blanc) Dry, berry taste this year.
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| | vern_2006
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Herman Italian Purple and Marseilles Black are main crop. I got one or two breba from the Marseilles Black last May or early June I did not mark it down on my calendar. By the way the Marseilles Black I fine to be very good fig. This week I am getting a few Stella and Atreano.
The Hardy Chicago and the Violette de Burdeaux are breba.
I am have a terrible time with raccoons. They are getting my ripe figs before I am able to get them. I have started to trap them. So far I have caught a little one. Hopefully more real soon.
Vern
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| | Herman2
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Good to hear Vern,and Thanks for the Explanation.
I also had a few Breba from Marseilles Vs,but no Main crop yet.
It is a fact now your climate is Warmer than mine and your trees are ahead.
Enjoy.
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My first was a ripe Celeste today, though not too dark. 08-16-08
My LSU Purples are swelling and darkening the best.
Brown Turkey has too much plant growth not enough fruit of size & that is dropping? Weather here has cooled not getting above 72 now. Nights in the 50s. Thanks growers.
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| | pitangadiego
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The date is not updated when I edit my list, so I am adding this note to force it to update the date. |
| | loslunasfarms
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9/1/2008
Fred Born Violette de Bordeaux - ripening now. Good flavor.
Kadota - been ripening last few weeks.
Albququerque UNK #1 (Barbera fig) - ripening now. Good flavor. Taste like sweet cantalopes, no souring, even with our afternoon torrential rains.
Atreano - swelling
9/15/2008
Brunswick - No rains, extremely sweeet, very tasty.
Celeste - Very good, taste of grapes
Los Lunas Fig - Very good
Socorro UNK #3 - Very good
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| | moshepherdess
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Here in our hoophouse near Kansas City, we have about a zone 9b environment for the figs as opposed to zone 5b outside. Unusual warm, early Spring temps. started early growth on the figs and then cooler than usual temps. slowed it down. Ripening was a little later this year than last and naturally will extend longer than last year. Didn't keep exact records on everything, so some will be estimates. Guessed early on that I would have at least five dozen figs on the three main trees. More of the HC ripened when small. HC and Violette de Bordeaux will likely be done ripening in another couple days, only a few left. HC and Vd B will both be moved outside this fall after the addition goes on the hoop. The addition will not be large enough to accommodate all the varieties I have acquired, so Celeste and Brown Turkey will also get to go outside next Spring. The selected ones that are either more tender (I think) or have Brebas that I want to protect will be planted in-ground in the addition along with four trees that get to reside in the main part of the hoop where residual heat from the south side affords moderated temps. that only got to thirty degrees last winter. With the planting outside, I should have a longer season for figs than this year. Some small trees (two from a Missouri grower last summer and the others from Jon last fall) have fruit on them. Alma has ripened 8 fruit with a few more to go and LSU Purple ripened one that disappeared and still has a few left. King and Excel have a few and Nero has one. I am not skilled enough to know if these young figs will ripen this year, but after last year's experience, I do know to remove them if they do not ripen before cold weather. I do find several other trees with tiny bumps that make me think they are indeed next year's crop. Whatever we engage in, it is a learning process. Am certainly enjoying the fruit of this project! June 11 Italian Honey Breba (one dozen) seems like there were only a few days between the breba and main crop Mid July It.H main crop (my favorite - five dozen) few splits August 3 Violette de Bordeaux main (six dozen) lots of splits, some spoiling breba was worthless and removed August 5 Hardy Chicago main (eight dozen) lots of splits, some spoiling August 20 Alma (close second favorite picked the day I had the last IH, tougher skin than It.H) one dozen on tree from 2007 cutting no splits Elizabeth |
| | Herman2
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It Does look like in the HoopHouse the fruit split and sour worse than if kept outside according to your report.
Hardy Chicago almost never split.and rarelly sour if grown outside here in New Jersey,where it rains in the wrong time many Times.
I also red a report By George about black Madeira splitting in the greenhouse but not outside here ,wich coroborates your report.
Thank you for posting it.
Best Regards
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| | Dieseler
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Like Herman said about Hardy Chicago almost never split same here mine almost never split as well , they did some splitting this year but that was after a very rare weekend which happened to give 9 total inches of rain. the other 4 years tree never split the figs, my EL Sal's split very bad compared to Hardy Chicago i also noted after that weekend mentioned.
Hardy Chicago - Breba , 17 gr weight in container - July 28th EL.Sals -- Breba, 25 gr weight in container - July 29th
Martin
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| | pitangadiego
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Well, I guess I never finished the 2008 ripening order, but it is time to start on 2009 because I had my first ripe fig today. Well, almost. It turned out to be not quite as ripe as it looked, but there are two more right behind it. So, this year's winner is Lyndhurst White. All are in-ground or 15 gallon pot, unless otherwise indicated.
Week of 07-06-2009
Diredo
KAC-11-30E (Caprifig)
Lyndhurst White
T-30E (Caprifig)
Week of 07-13-2009
Brown Turkey
Week of 07-20-2009
309-B-1
Atreano 1-
Bifara
Black Jack
Brown Turkey UC
Flanders S7
Lemon
Nardine
Osborn Prolific TD
Pastiliere
Santa Margherita
Week of 07-27-2009
135-15s143-36
171-59
Armenian
Barnisotte
Brown Turkey 27
Capelas Celeste GM Lebanese FN Monstrueuse OC Native de Argentile
Portland 1 Pratt's Purple
Saint Jerome Violette
Vista
White OC
White Ischia
White Marseilles
Week of 8-3-2009
Armenian
Black Spanish
Brown Turkey UC
Calvert
D'Or RN
Double Header
Flanders
Galbun
Hollier CI
Khurtmani
LSU Gold
Malcolm's Giant
Marabout
Mission S7
NS No. 1 Green
Osborn OC
Peter's Honey RT
Santa Cruz Dark
Vashon
Violette Dauphine
Violette de Bordeaux EL
Violette Soleis
White Greek
White King
White Marseilles
Week of 8-10-2009
K-7-11
Brown Turkey PM
Cilentano
Gulbun
Mega Celeste
Trojano 5-11
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| | Herman2
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July 17 2009
My First Ripe Breba are on,right now
Desert King
Sweet Georg(GM Collection,Young fig)
Both Breba,see Pixes,on the 2008 original post! July 24-2009
Malta Black
Tacoma Violett
UCR 143-36
These were all super sweet,and excellent tasting
H2
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| | Bass
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My large in ground fig trees were chewed by mice whiel over wintered. These are ripe figs from my potted trees that are not full maturity.
7/17 First ripe fig Weeping Black breba, Excellent flavor
7/18 Desert King Good flavor
8/6 Dark Portuguese breba excellent flavor
8/8 Brooklyn white breba picked several very large fig, Good flavor but not as good as main crop.
8/15 all the following are main crop
Well's sweep medium size very sweet, a bit similar to marseille
Osborn Prolific Large fig has an open eye. Grey flesh with yellow pulp. Tastes good, more figs ripened and tasted much better.
8/16
Mega Celese Average good flavor, tough skin.
8/17
Brunswick
8/25
Byadi
Well's weep
8/26
O'Rourke
TX everbearing
Gulbun
8/27
Naples White Excellent tasting, Very large fig.
8/30
Long yellow Extra large sweet could be sweeter, was not damaged by heavy rain.
9/1
Tiger Very good reach berry flavor
9/2
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| | paully22
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First ripe 20th July was Lattarula followed by Grimo's white fig this week 27th July. The Lattarula was excellent and fruit was left on tree till it started to show signs of shrinkage. Weather was hot at 30*C(86*F) at least. The first white fig from Grimo did not taste too yummie. Maybe it had to do with the 2 sudden heavy thunderstorms we had the last 2 evenings inspite of day time temp hitting the 80*F plus mark. Hopefully with such hot,hot weather 90*F plus now, the rest of the White Fig would taste better. Fig size is large.
Other figs in ripening stage and swelling plus turning color are:
Adriano
Negronne
Large Dark Greek
Vicenzo
Hope to post pictures .
Paully
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| | paully22
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July 19 Desert King brebas on both potted and in-ground specimens; three total--most of the brebas dropped. Not as good as the main crop (see note below about main crop). Probably the “5-7” accession I got from Jon back in 2007. See http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_Desert_King.html August 15 Negretta (from Gene in DC). Actually not fully ripe, but birds and ants were beating me to two small ones on a small and young potted specimen on my deck. Need riper ones to comment further. August 17 First main-crop from the potted Desert King cited above. Last year the in-ground bush ripened all of its main-crop figs (birds and squirrels got most of them). So I seriously doubt that this accession is a San Pedro version of DK. Skins are tougher than any fig I’ve tried before—to the point of almost being unpalatable. But the pulp is delicious! August 21 A potted unidentified variety from a friend and neighbor here in Bethesda. August 24 First main crop from the in-ground Desert King cited above. August 25 EL White Marseilles: Edible Landscaping (EL) apparently has more than one kind of WM, but I do not know which one this is. It froze back nearly to the ground this past winter (we got down to 2* last January and it was unprotected), so this is one that comes back and successfully ripens fruit after major dieback. It’s not my favorite—I only like it when extremely ripe when a hint of butter scotch kicks in; but my younger brother and youngest son say they like it more than Hardy Chicago, which I prefer. August 27 EL Hardy Chicago. August 28 Black Marseilles VS. August 29 EL Sals. |
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Results from Zone 5 The results indicate the date of the first one or two ripe figs and not in big numbers. -------------------- Breba Crop July 25, 09 Latarulla, breba on 2-Years old plant August 10, 09 Bifara, breba on 3-Years old plant August 15, 09 Desert King, breba on 2-Years old plant ----------------- Main Crop Natalina, Sept 14, 09 Sal, Sept 16, 09 Celeste, Sept 19, 09 (Not all celestes are equal and the Blue Celeste is doing nothing yet) Marseilles VS, Sept 24 Hardy Chicago, October 1st Capela, Octobe 10 (1 ripe fig on less than 2-year old plant) |
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