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Neveralla 2017

This fig is hugely underestimated.  It is a great main crop producer and many brebas every year.

This fig is now 4 years old and planted in ground.  No signs of any disease or stress.  It seems to have liked the almost daily rain in spring and summer this year and the brebas are much larger than other years.  Don't know if that is because of the rain or plant maturity.  Only 1 of 3 showed any splitting.  
The taste is honey tones, sweet and juicy.  Little seed crunch and thin skin.
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That looks really good Pino. Rain resistance is very important to us northern growers

WOW! Pino, now this is a Big Fig! Great Photos! Thanks for posting! : )

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This fig is hugely underestimated.  It is a great main crop producer and many brebas every year.

This fig is now 4 years old and planted in ground.  No signs of any disease or stress.  It seems to have liked the almost daily rain in spring and summer this year and the brebas are much larger than other years.  Don't know if that is because of the rain or plant maturity.  Only 1 of 3 showed any splitting.  
The taste is honey tones, sweet and juicy.  Little seed crunch and thin skin.
Neveralla IMG_7712.jpg 

neveralla IMG_7757.jpg 




Hi Pino,
Could You show us some leave patterns pls?


Outstanding colour to the fig

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  • pino
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Thanks Devin, Frank and Tony for your feedback!

Robert, per request;
attached the prevailing mature leaf pattern photo and some photos of the tree (4 main limbs, tree is almost 6') will need to do some pruning this year.

For some more info including main crop here is a 2015 topic;

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/neveralla-2015-7510582?pid=1290495112

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Very unique colors on this fig. Looks delicious. In ground, that's awesome! A photo of the tree would be nice. I could see part of the tree, which consists of old wood, which tells me that winter damage is not that significant.
Thank You.

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Thanks Sas!

The photo in my post above img_7467 is a July 22 photo of a cross section of the fig tree showing the 4 main stems, the 3 brebas picked a couple of days ago.  There are some leaves with July 1 hail damage but everything is pretty well green and healthy.  Now that brebas are picked the fig will resume growing.

The trees are packed in tight so if I pan out more you will see other figs fico bianco and dalmatie in front and blocking the lower part of the tree. 
Here is a close up photo 2 weeks ago of 2 of the branches.  
The giant leaves near the bottom are horseradish.
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Great thanks for snapshots Pino.
Is Neveralla frost hardy enough in Canada?

Just compared a leave pattern with my unknown which looks like Neverala, or Osborn Prolific.
However those back lobes are different.
take a look pls

-breba
-breba cut
-maincrop
- leaves


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see enclosed Sch 6.jpg  Sch 5.jpg  maincrop and leave pattern


I am just trying it in ground this year.  So will have a much better idea next year how it fares.  
Key factors;
- will it stop growing and harden the wood in time for winter
- when all bundled up will it endure when it is -20C outside probably -9C micro climate inside cover

Your fig looks like Osborne Prolific to me.  Maybe an EU version.
It seems by looking at various photos including yours that there may be a group of figs that look similar (Osborne, Neveralla, Archipel, Lion fig of Syria) and several strains within that group that perform differently depending where they came from and health of plant.

The particular strain I have is grown by several others here in Ontario, Canada and seems productive and healthy.
I also have one from PNW and also Osborne Prolific but haven't seen any figs on those yet.  Maybe next year I will be able to compare all 3.

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