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MichaelTucson

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Peter's Honey breba, picked 7-28-2014.  Tasted very nice.  Texture included a slight crunch.  Sweet with a mild "nutty sweet" overtone, maybe a little like brown sugar oatmeal with honey.  I'd rate it about a 7.5 out of 10.  This one is the second of about 10 breba on this tree.

on the tree
Peters Honey breba 20140728 on tree.jpg 

picked, focus soft
Peters Honey 20140728 breba whole 2.jpg 

picked, focus on front of fig:
Peters Honey 20140728 breba whole 1.jpg 

cross section
Peters Honey 20140728 breba split 1.jpg


another cross section view (with flash, a little washed out):
Peters Honey 20140728 breba split 2.jpg

the eye is fairly open
Peters Honey 20140728 breba eye.jpg   

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This is a top class light breba
Fabulous pictures as well

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Hi Mickaeltucson,
Nice fig !
Zone5, whouahou, Amazing !
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Great looking fig. I have one of this tree in a half wine barrel and in second year, hope I will get couple to try this season.
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Yes! Great info, nice photos.
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I love the honey flavored figs.  A perfect plate would be half berry-flavored, and half honey-flavored.  Heck, let's add a glass of wine with it and a nice cool evening on the deck.  ;)
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Nice looking fig...I have one that refuses to grow.
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Thanks for the update. Just added Peter's Honey to my collection. Purchased cuttings from eBay and they're currently rooting beautifully and can't wait fir my tree to mature.
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Very nice and tasty, thanks for sharing.

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Mike,
Thanks for sharing the detailed fig pictures and info.
Could you please post a few pictures of the typical leaves?
Thanks.
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Thanks for the comments, all.  And Pete, thanks for the reminder about posting leaf pictures.  Here's a picture of the dominant leaf form.  Also a few pictures of some of the main crop figs.  They're mostly doubled (two figs per leaf node), though a few are single and some are also triples (three figs per leaf node).  There's one interesting "conjoined" pair of figs (joined side by side, one stem and two eyes).  Here are the pics:

dominant leaf:
Peters Honey 20140721 leaf.jpg 

Some main crop figs in a cluster:
Peters Honey 20140724 main crop clusters.jpg 


conjoined fig/figs (one stem, two eyes, two lobes to the fig)
Peters Honey 20140724 conjoined main figs.jpg 


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Very beautiful photos, thanks for sharing.

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Mike,
Thanks for posting the leaf pictures.
It helps with my speculation that Peters Honey is a different cultivar than its "Synonym", Kadota. My PH has a large number of those same odd shaped 3 lobed leaves which are different from the Kadota's. It will be another year before I can make a better comparison.
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Pete, you're welcome for the leaf picture.  I had meant to post one anyway, but I'm glad you reminded me.  Meanwhile, I'm reasonably convinced already that Peter's Honey should be considered a different cultivar from Kadota.  Not only because of the leaves, but the fruit also seem sufficiently different to me.  I suspect there are other differences in growth habit and ripening times (and those sorts of differences).  I guess at some point it becomes a little bit arbitrary where the lines are drawn.  I just mean since there are varying degrees of genetic difference anyway for different individual specimens of a given cultivar, then drawing the line between variations among individuals of the same cultivar (or different strains of the same cultivar) versus different cultivars... that becomes a matter of human convention I guess.  To me they seem sufficiently different, and since people actively propagate both and maintain some degree of separation, I'm inclined to consider them separate cultivars.

Meanwhile, here are some additional pics of another breba I picked today from the same tree.  This is the fourth this year from this tree, and it is the best tasting yet.  It may have been slightly more ripe, and this one had a drop of "honey" at the eye.  

But the one I've most got my eye on among the hundred or so figs on this tree, is the strange "conjoined pair" in the main crop.  I hope that one ripens... can't wait to see the inside details of the separation from one to two. 

Peters Honey 20140731 breba honey drop.jpg 

Peters Honey 20140731 breba split.jpg 

Peters Honey 20140731 breba whole.jpg 

Peters Honey 20140731 half.jpg 


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Your fig looks delicious, thanks for sharing.

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More sweetness dripping out, it has to be good.
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My Peter's Honey name is challenged as mistakenly labeled, as to mine has a purplish outline in the pulp. I see your's has a little. How are most of your figs?  I wish none had names, but wrong names is frustrating...what can I say I have a fake Peter's Honey?
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Very nice looking tree and pics. Mike thanks for sharing.
The reason for bringing this topic back was a search I ran on PH Breba crop. I have a PH tree that I bought from Bay Flora nursery early last spring. It was about 2 feet tall and very thin,grown from a cutting. It came in a 4x4 grower sleeve and was planted in a 5 gal square bucket within a week of arrival. It stayed small and with minimal growth until the end of June and when the second growth spurt came it just took off. I got to taste about ten late main crop figs while seven or eight more never ripened and fell off. FF to this morning and I see a few Breba figs starting to pop. It was one of the best tasting figs last year even though I clearly picked them a few days too soon and came late in the season from a very young tree. I hope I get to taste those Breba figs this year. If they look half as good as Mike's did,I'll be a lucky man. Deffinitlly a keeper in this zone!

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