HarveyC
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Posted 1391633100
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I acquired a fig tree last weekend from someone who previously worked with Todd Kennedy for a number of years. The label reads "San Miro Piro". Not seeing a fig by that name, I wrote him and asked if it might be San Pedro Miro or something else. He responded and said it is "San Miro Piro" and came from Italy. I'm stuck and wondering if anyone may have heard of such a fig. He also tells me that it produces only a breba crop and that it's better than Desert King.
Harvey - Correia Farms
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HarveyC
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Posted 1407782479
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I believe this tree was propagated in 2000 and was very rootbound in a 5 gallon pot so it dried out on my several times and dropped its breba crop. I'll plant it in the ground when I get two more rows in my orchard prepared. My breba crop dropped off due to lack of sufficient irrigation. The tree is now in a larger pot and fruits were apparently caprified when I placed caprifigs near some in-ground trees located 100' away. Below is a photo of the fruit (main crop) I picked today and a leaf in hopes someone might help solve the identification of this tree. Fruit was sweet and moderate flavors that I thought were good (sorry, not going to go with melon, berry, or whatever) and crunchy seeds. Big eye on fruit but no insect problems or spoilage (climate is dry but we had sprinkles a week ago).
Harvey - Correia Farms
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rcantor
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Posted 1407784171
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Lots of Italian figs are named for Catholic Saints. Saint Miro is more typically associated with Northern Italy and Piro is in the South but someone could have found a fig they liked in Piro and named it after St Miro. If the words are pronounced similarly in Italian the namer might have liked the similar sounds.
