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Ivarfigs

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All the breba figs on one of my fig trees fall off before they are edible. Are they unripe or are they supposed to be that way?

The breba crop come in early spring and grow quite big and fall off one after one. In june there is no one left. The fig tree is healthy and produces a good tasting brown main crop.
 The unripe main crop figs has a dark green color and is round. The possibly unripe breba crop is very oval and has a light green color.

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Ivarfigs,
Sorry it is not an answer to your question but rather another case pehaps similar to yours.
My potted Quarterpounder and Excell 3yr old showed some breba (a dozen each tree).
Some brebas fell of in May, other breba survivied till June, and grew to 3/4 of full final size then wilted and dropped off.
Interestingly, I observed for the past week that the youngest leaves just initialized ones, on both of these trees were faling prior to breba fall-off.
The trees must have felt stress of some kind. But main crop embryos are developing non the less.

At the  same time LSU variety next to the previous two trees in larger pot is holding breba nice and green and is showing main crop too.
Only difference would be the size of pot and less heat on the third tree.

wonder if others have observed something similar already!
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Most of my brebas fell off, cool weather, young plants, lack of sufficient sun, all contribute to normal breba drop.
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Hi Ivarfigs,
What strain is it ? In which usda Zone are you ?
If the strain is not known from you, it could be a bad strain or a smyrna and you're in a zone with no wasp.
Does the figtree do that each year ?
Did you get a cold spring ?
Photos of the dropped figs ?
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No expert here, but from what I have gleaned from the forum is that some varieties do not hold onto their breba crop easily, some always drop it no matter what.
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