first brown turkey breba of the year

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satellitehead

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Posted 1276974979	Reply with quote #1

not that this is anything to write home about but ... i figure i will post anyway. my first BT breba was to be ripe this weekend, and on thursday it decided it couldn't hold on any longer, it needed to blow up. i have one more that is about 4-5 days from ripe. i am hoping it doesn't explode also, the eye looks like it is on the verge of opening.... here are pictures of both, if you are interested? Attached Images 0.jpg (119.86 KB, 495 views) 1.jpg (126.23 KB, 482 views) 2.jpg (138.03 KB, 485 views) 3.jpg (162.57 KB, 487 views) __________________ Jason Atlanta/Grant Park area - z8

OttawanZ5

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Posted 1276976035	Reply with quote #2

It is mid June. I am sure you will get more and better brebas soon. My Desert King is holding 5 fruits (breba) green and hard and almost the same size for almost a month now. It is its first time so I have to learn its ripening pattern. __________________ Ottawan-Z5a, Canada

FrozenJoe

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Posted 1276984454	Reply with quote #3

Jason, How did it taste? I wish I had ripe figs now. Joe __________________ Joe Phoenix Area (Zone 9) I am MrFrozenJoe on YouTube. I am arizonafigs on eBay.

rafed

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Posted 1276984710	Reply with quote #4

Jason, That's a great looking fig. I would send one to Jon.

satellitehead

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Posted 1276985163	Reply with quote #5

i could not (would not?) taste the one that exploded (first two pictures). i will tell you how the other one (last two pictures) tastes, if it does not split. keep your fingers crossed, it's a fat one, probably going to be really juicy/watery. we've been getting an inordinate amount of rain here recently. __________________ Jason Atlanta/Grant Park area - z8

TucsonKen

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Posted 1276992464	Reply with quote #6

I ended up with about a dozen BT brebas--more than I had noticed at first, because some were hidden in the foliage and I didn't see them until they started ripening and got bigger. The main thing I notice as I look at your photos is that mine look quite different, and since I bought my tree from a local nursery, I suppose it may well not be a BT at all. For comparison, the figs in my avatar are BT brebas from a few years ago. The first of this year's brebas wasn't great, but the weather got a lot hotter as the others were ripening and they all ended up being quite good--as tasty as the main crop, and very welcome so early in the year. __________________ Ken Tucson, Arizona Zone 8b

satellitehead

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Posted 1277048412	Reply with quote #7

This is how most of my BT breba have looked - I also bought mine at a nursery.... I dunno, mine look very much like what all BTs look like around here, and I presume they both look different because of climate diff'ces - you're hot and dry, we're moist and humid. __________________ Jason Atlanta/Grant Park area - z8

satellitehead

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Posted 1277167468	Reply with quote #8

came home and found the other one above on the ground. not sure who or what knocked it off. it wasn't quite ripe, had a little ways to go. was sweet, but tasted unripe, was only strawberry colored near the eye. this tree typically has a fruit void, so the hollow in the middle is normal. i have two more for later this week. there's still about 10 more after those. Attached Images inside.jpg (166.52 KB, 311 views) outgr.jpg (148.52 KB, 312 views) outred.jpg (129.56 KB, 314 views) __________________ Jason Atlanta/Grant Park area - z8

satellitehead

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Posted 1277430459	Reply with quote #9

I had three more explosions during the week! All of my breba figs are exploding!! I picked two more breba figs today. The one that's cut open below was a tiny bit crunchy, mild flavor, squishy, sweet skin. I gotta say... my BT doesn't produce good tasting fruit. The one that I cut open is the fig on the right - it was almost to the point of over-ripe on one side, you can see the saggy skin. They have the typical interior void all of BT figs do. I put a Euro next to them for reference, only pocket change I have, gotta fly to Germany in 36 hours for work. These figs are actually pretty large, the picture doesn't do them justice. __________________ Jason Atlanta/Grant Park area - z8

satellitehead

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Posted 1308620463	Reply with quote #10

Apparently the breba crop on this tree just sucks. I had my first two breba in the same week as last year. One of them was smallish and shrivelled because it was sitting directly over a air conditioner compressor, where it got hot and dry air over it all day long. It was mostly dry inside. The other one was singular, and it is very large, but mostly skin inside! It was beginning to split, and when I touched the fruit, it fell off. Inline image Inline image Attached Images bt-breba-closed.JPG (284.18 KB, 223 views) bt-breba-open.JPG (291.92 KB, 222 views) __________________ Jason Atlanta/Grant Park area - z8

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