Good day, 2 weeks ago, my Pastiliere figs started to ripen.  This tree is one of the best tasting large super sweet blackish bluish fig that is very juicy.  It is the juiciest fig I've ever grown to date!  I got lucky because my black figs were just hanging on the tree.  The birds were hitting my Hardy Chicagos and Brown Turkey figs but not these.  Hmmmmm. My 2 Pastiliere fig trees took years to produce edible figs.  The first 2 years I got no figs.  The third year I got a few figs that just fell off.  Last year, I got one that ripen but was super tiny.  This year, the tree finally matured and I am very happy I gave these trees time to develop!

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At the top left is LSU Gold.  IT WAS SWEET!!! YEA!!!!!
At 12 Noon is JH ADriatic.  No inside pic, just freaking beautiful and sweet inside.
Middle is Pastiliere
At 7 o'clock is Atreano. 
At 5 o'clock is Peter's Honey--one of my favorites this year!
   
Please Note:  Pastiliere is the juiciest fig I have ever eaten!  When I cut this fig, the juice ran out like opening up a coconut!  Not joke!  And it was very very sweet!

Here are a few other pictures.  LSU Gold was sweet and the same with LSU Purple and Mega Celeste.  But the LSUs were the sweetest from this group.

        
enjoy!

Dennis, you and some of the other members post such good pics and descriptions.  I wish I could remember everything I read on here.  Thank goodness I can keep coming back to read it over and over....lol.  Thanks for all the info on these particular figs.  I have a couple of them but too young to bare fruit.  

Dennis,
very nice pictures and figs,good job.Ciao,
Giuseppe

Martin's only got eyes for that Pastiliere.  Imagine if HE could get the fruit to hang on...The Dark Side of the Force would swiftly silence poor Peter with but a thought!

After tasting Pastiliere, now I understand why Martin likes them so much.  But my trees took years to produce edible figs.  But these were worth the wait!  These figs do not taste like Black Madeira but they taste different like Black Maderia.  DO you understand my point?  In other words, in a blind taste test, you would know that this black fig taste different if tasted with Black MIssion or Marseilles Black or Marva Sika.  It just has a different taste. 

I also got 2 Rouge de Bordeauxs.  Some say they are the same as Pastiliere.  Both are 6' tall.  Both friuted but the figs were not worth eating.  Maybe in 2 more years the figs might be edible.  Time will tell.

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Dennis, you are posting serious fig porn.... beautiful figs.... something to aspire to for sure...

T

Hi Dennis,
How are those trees doing 3 years later ?

Dennis they look absolutely wonderful! I rooted pastiliere this past winter and it has grown like crazy, but like you said happened to yours early on, all the figs that formed fell off.. This one appears to be well worth the wait though for the juiciest fig ever!! ;) 1 year down, 3 to go!!! Thanks for sharing the beautiful pics

Dennis, are your Pastilieres grown in containers or in the ground?

Very nice variety, I hear. Beautiful figs!

Steve they are all in huge 22g SWPs.  But they stay outside year around.  They will go in the ground this Fall.  They are super hardy and very prolific!

That's good to hear.  Mine is in its first season and I plan to plant it in the ground next Spring.  Is your Pastiliere the one from Raintree or another source?  I was just wondering if there are strains that will set fruit and ripen more readily than others.

Is anyone familiar with Richard Watt's Pastiliere? It's one I have as a rooted cutting from this spring.

It had a half dozen figs or so but all dropped.

My 4 Pastilieres did come from Raintree.  I do have one from Mr Watts but it requires the wasp.

Jamie, Pastiliere takes years before the tree realizes its not suppose to drop fruit.  But the figs are jet black and very juicy.  Make sure not to let the tree get root bound because its a very fast grower.  And again, they are very hardy.  In my picture above, that egg is a large egg!  So, the figs are large in size.

Looks good Dennis.
Pastiliere and Scott's Black are the 2 figs that are on my list to acquire some year down the road after thinning out the trees that don't cut it here.

Dennis... what are your thoughts regarding the prolonged aging required for Pastilliere if one were to take a vigorous first year plant cutting and graft it onto a older root stock? Do you think that could advance the perceived age of the grafted Pastilliere and reduce the wait time? Has anyone done such grafts in an effort to reduce time to fruiting with cultivars that are known to be slow maturers? If so, any observations / conclusions?

Thanks,
Tony