So I've read on the forum about the discovery of this fig and seen the amazing photos. My question is this: has anyone grown it here in the states from cuttings AND tasted the fruit grown here? Is it as amazing as it seems or is a lot of the incredibleness wrapped up in the story surrounding it? I'm just wondering if the opinions would be different if a friend just handed you one of these figs to eat without the amazing background story. Would it be considered as delicious? Thanks!

It's a green fig, how good can it really be?  Just kidding, somewhat.  I have heard that Frank (FMD) got a fruit to ripen in Florida, but didn't see any update on taste.  If nothing else, the inside color and flavor will be different from the pollinated fig overseas. 

Agreed. My wife and I spent a day in bodega bay, ca one time. It was foggy and cold and we were driving up the coast and stumbled on the area. We spent the day mountain biking along the cliffs and had a great time. To cap it off, we went to a little restaurant by the dock of the harbor and I had a bowl o cioppino that was to die for! I mean the best ever! I'm sure a lot of that perception was driven by the great day that I had with my wife, the fact that it was cold and foggy that day, the setting of the restaurant, etc. all those factors played into it. It was an experience that cannot be duplicated. You could have served me that EXACT bowl of cioppino to me at my kitchen table and it would not have been as impressive. I think a lot of that plays into these new found figs. They have meaning to the person who finds them but to a person who has no such reference point it's just another fig and the flavor and experience behind its discovery can never be duplicated. Do we love hearing the stories and seeing the photos? ABSOLUTELY! It's fun and exciting to share in the persons experience. And we want gnat for ourselves! (Myself included). So we want to grow the fig ourselves but it just can't be duplicated.

So I just wonder if it's a let down once you finally bite into that special fig that you grew for yourself. Maybe it isn't. I've just been wondering about it.

Give me well ripened alma and i will give someone a blind taste test against the ponte tresa alna would win. Why because its a real fig.

FMD said the PT he grew was as good as the Swiss one.

Well I was lucky to taste the real potential of a nicely ripen Hardy Chicago and VdB in PA. It was
like fruits for GOD only. Absolutely delicious. It never tasted as delicious when grown in my zone. 
This experience tells me figs when grown to their full potential in the right zone is worth its weight
in gold.

Suddenly, them good old Brown Turkey & Celeste  (the mostly figs USA grown ones) do taste as a universal fig should.
That is all what I started with [E: circa 27 years ago].
Who needs more twists ... gt us figaholics ...

It's the present Dutch Tulip that's being hyped, so that certain people can make a lot of $$$

Does anyone know where in Ponte Tresa one can pick up these cuttings?  I have a friend that works in my office that lives out there.  She said she'd pick some cuttings up for me and interoffice them to me, if I can tell her where to get the cuttings.

There are a lot of great figs, no need to chase a fad.

I tried to find what you are talking about but didn't. What happened?

I tried to find whatever thread you're talking about and couldn't either.  What happened? I'm assuming something like the tree got hacked to pieces for cuttings?

Yes it was a worldwide hack job. There was more money then you could imagine made off that tree. However, recent photos shows the tree bounced back and is now protected.