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Any info at all on Filacciano Bianco

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I just found the pictures of Filacciano which I took in the middle of July 2013. Filacciano had a lot of sweet juice. 









 I sure hope you all have good luck with them can get them into the mainstream .  
Quickly please I'm getting old. 

 

Tam, thanks for posting the photos.  They look great.  Do they taste like honey or jam etc.?

Tam, thx.
mgg

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Steve: They do not taste like jam, but I remembered the ones that I ate had a little jelly taste.

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Tam

Pasty like and good taste. I have pic's in my wife's camera and she is travelling overseas.

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Paully22: A taste of jelly to you means a pasty like ? Yes, American jellies have pasty taste, but asian jellies have chewy taste. So, Ficciano figs have some pasty taste but they also have some chewy texture in the pulps. 

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Tam

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I talked to Al in Bethesda, Maryland and asked him to describe the taste of Filacciano. According to him, Filacciano figs  have soft, juicy and sweet with a little chewy texture in the pulps. He has been eating a few Filacciano main crops since last week and told me that for some unknown reason (too much rain in his area or rootbound?), the main crops do not taste as good as the breba crops this year. But they did taste a little sweet. 

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Tam

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Here are more information and photos of the Filacciano's main crops. I ate 2 yellowish green figs this afternoon. They were sweet and little jammy taste. The color of the figs are very nice and bright. They were more round shape. Al has been eating the main crops for at least a month now. Now he said that at least 20% or more of the main crops did not drop. 









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Tam

Info to add;
My tree is still showing upright growth. Does not show any desire to be a bush.
For the last few years I have gotten great early brebas in July and a partial main crop.
This year I'm already eating the main crop and they are once again excellent small/medium yellow on yellow figs.
I will be adding another to my orchard and may even plant one outdoors. If this tree continues to give lots of very good brebas and then an excellent main crop I will add a few more. Sorry no pic.s - still waiting on laptop that had a glass of tonic water spilled on it (oooouch!).
FB brebas were much better then Desert King.
Michael Tucson -- do you still have FB? If so can we swap cuttings?
With Gene Hosey claiming he thought FB had the most cold resistant wood of any fig in his collection it seems those in zones 6 and below would be trying this variety.

I am trialing it in Seattle this year. I received it as a rather small 1 gallon plant and it has put on a lot of growth over the past few months. It did put out several little figlets but I pulled them off to let it concentrate on vegetative growth.

Thanks for bringing this thread back up Michael.  I have a couple FB and was still under the impression that it was a breba crop only.  I was about to strip the main crop figs, as they don't seem to be preparing to drop on their own.  You saved them! :-)

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