Heya, well to be honest Im trying to think back to answer some of these questions, we are in the final month of winter now, so its been a few months, and the new babies have left me quite sleep deprived!

Thinking back, I picked a number of other fruit from this plant, I cant say I know much about Black Genoa as a variety over any other variety, but I can tell you that my particular plant seems to starts off the season favouring 3 lobed leaves, and then later in the season favouring large 5 lobed leaves. It is quite a vigorous plant, but is particularly frost sensitive, losing many leaves in a frost at the start of the year, when others right next to it kept theirs. It also seems quite susceptible to rust toward the end of the season.

I recall the fruit being excellent, and next to my White Adriatic the best flavoured, but I cannot remember if it was a berry or honey type flavour. The fruit were always quite large, and I don’t recall anything particularly remarkable about the skin.

I cant recall the exact size of the apple sorry. The fruit was probably ripe when I picked it, though I get quite impatient, so it possible had a few days left in it. I believe it was main crop, although some of my plants had breba figs that seemed to take forever to ripen, perhaps into Feb…

Here is a picture of the full plant taken on March 18. I hope that helps!