2016 Main crop most advance thus far

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paully22

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Coastal Southern British Columbia Zone, Canada -- Fraser Valley region, zone 6/7 : My 3 most advance main crop varieties grown in pot culture are Norella, LSU Improved Celeste & LSU O'rourke. Current figlet size is about a mid size ripe blue berry. My other 8 reliable in-ground trees that are exhibiting main crop tiny figlets/bumps in a good numbers are Florea, RdB, Latarulla, Osborne Prolific, Barbillone, LSU Champagne and Longue d'Aout. I have not check the other in-ground usual reliable main croppers Nebo and Melanzana "not"AF. Note -- last winter was mild and spring like weather started early this season. Hope others can chime in on their most advance main crop variants based on their climatic zone

Figgysid1

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Fern forest, Hawaii 2400ft zone 12a. Most of the figs that are ripening now formed in January. Very close to ripening >30 days Sal's/EL MBVS Figo Preto Sultane Wuhan (main crop) Conadria LSU Gold LSU Golden Celeste LSU Hollier <30 days from ripening Panache Peter's Honey Excel Flanders Grise Olivette Valley Black Wuhan (Breba) __________________ (Zone 12a) Big Island, Hawaii, 2,400 ft elevation, Fern Forest. Avg. July High 77,Avg.Jan.Low 56 Precipitation days 290, annual rainfall 201.80 inches.

tylerj

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My first 2 in pots with pea size main crop figlets now are Maltese Beauty and Black Madeira (I gave them a head start in my green house). My inground desert king has some cherry sized brebas. Also my potted-inground Gentile Bianco and Grise de Tarascon has ping pong ball sized brebas. Tyler __________________ London, Ontario zone 6a Wish List: Martinenca Rimada, Genovese Nero AF, Galicia Negra, Brooklyn White

figpig_66

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Posted 1464700887	Reply with quote #4

My lsu gold is by far the winner for me. Has around 40 figs bigger then a quarter that are not ripening yet. They will be huge again this year second will be California brown turkey them Maltese beauty. __________________ RICHIE BONI HICKORY LOUISIANA ZONE 8B WARM HUMID WINRERS ARE VERY MILD LOW 20'S BUT WARMS RIGHT UP DURING THE DAY. SUMMER IS EXTREMELY HOT & HUMID 100 degrees 100% humidity fig tree grow like crazy but some split from rain & humidity Wish list. Col de dame blanc Col de rimada Lsu numbered figs

FiggyFrank

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Posted 1464702157	Reply with quote #5

Potted trees: RdB is in the lead. Preto is 2nd place. Both are at 1/3 their anticipated ripened size. Valle Negra follows. Everything else is about pea-sized. The ground trees haven't shown figlets yet. __________________ Frank zone 7a - VA

jdsfrance

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Posted 1464727722	Reply with quote #6

Hi, Here, no maincrop figs for now- not even 1 . Some brebas got too cold a weather and fell. Lots of brebas are in stalled stage ... waiting for July to start ripening ... Maincrop figs normally show up in July, here . Sorry... I'm in Zone7 . __________________ ------------------------ Climate from -25°C to + 35°C Only cold hardy figtrees can make it here

paully22

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Update 1st June 2016 -- main crop pea size figlets found on my brief walk-about fig forest are: Blava Kelphonia Roundhill Gypsy LSU White Honey Ginoso NJ Red W.Triana Nero600 Polacci I395 Dark Portuguese LSU St Gabriel Pennisi Genovese Nero Robert Sal's El LSU Scott Yellow I258 Takoma Violet Chico Strawberry Kesiarani VdB Moscatel Preto Enrico Colasanti Dark Maltese Falcon Bellone Adriatic JH Pane E Vino White Unknown #5 LSU Jack Lily Smith Quite certain I should be able to harvest most of the main crop from the above variants. Disappointed nothing showing on Blk Maderia/Preto in Green house inspite of increase fertilizing frequency with higher "P"(Miracle Gro) fertilizer.

pino

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Posted 1464919725	Reply with quote #8

Paul Your zone is way ahead of us for main crop figlets here in zone 6. I am just now starting to see some figlets on Atreano. Do have many brebas on black Sicilian, petite negri, capelas, fico bianco and ciccio nero. Overall this year's breba production is way down for some reason. No brebas on Enrico, Sal's C, Melanzana AF, Paradiso Bronze and only a few on Desert King. I wonder if figs are on a 2 year cycle for 1st crop figs production? __________________ Pino, zone 6, Niagara, JCJ Acres Wish; Peace on earth and more figs Italian 258, Galicia Negra, Luv, trade suggestions welcome.

paully22

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Posted 1464936112	Reply with quote #9

@Pino -- I am sure I missed out accounting for some variants that are bearing main crop figlets as some areas of my garden are too pack with fig trees. This is the first time I am documenting what variants are having main crop before June. This would help me in deciding what variants to jump start next season in my green house/enclosed patio. I would certainly jump start Blk Maderia, Preto, Jordanian, Noir de Barbentane, Sofeno Preto, Cddc's, Barnisotte etc next season.

Herman2

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Posted 1464981394 · Edited	Reply with quote #10

Here only a few: In ground: Malta Black Improved Celeste (ORN) Marseilles black VS In pot:The only plant i have this way: Preto They have very tiny fruits, as small as a black pepper seed. Zone 6 b southern NJ

ricky

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Posted 1465001621 · Edited	Reply with quote #11

PNW, cool climate, I get some tiny main fig on small young trees. Hardy Chicago, Italian Honey, Olympian, Brunswick, Unk Green fig ( bebra and main) Most of them might not be able ripen them on time in cool climate, Need very early ripen varieties. __________________ - BC, Canada, PNW Zone 8 with windy ( Zone7 - branches damage at winter) - Wish list - Granthams Royal, RdB, any heavy breba varieties or early one crop varieties.

JMRTSUS

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Posted 1465078147 · Edited	Reply with quote #12

Here in the Chattanooga, TN (7a) area my LSU Purple and LSU Gold in pots lead. Brown Turkey and Celeste in the ground follow. Many of my 2 year olds showing bumps! (VBD, Lil Miss Figgie,Green Ischia and others). I found an "Italian Black" in 3 gallon pot at a local garden center fo $20 and brought it home. Also picked up several "Ischia" at Wally world for $16 seems to be some discussion as to if they are "Ischia", both have figs so we shall see.....Getting too many if that is possible....30 something outside and 20 more new starts under lights inside. __________________ Ooltewah, TN (SE TN) Zone 7a LSU figs.....Purple, Gold, Tiger, Champagne, O"Roark and Improved Celeste. Need Hollier and Scott's Black. (GEAUX TIGERS!) Brown Turkey, Celeste, Condradia, Chicago Hardy, Ischia Green, Italian Black, Kadota, Lil Miss Figgie, Lil Ruby, Olympian, Black Bethlehem, Panache, Jelly, Petite Negra, Texas Everbearing, Violette de Bordeaux, White Marseille, Yellow Long Neck, Desert King, Ronde de Bordeaux, Violetta Bayernfeige, Holier. And very rare, top secret "unknowns" AKA as Lost tags! Plus vaguely described figs such as "Louisiana Brown", "Ashlan Unknown" and "LA Yellow".

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