New Jersey --zone6b
July 24 2008
Brebas:
Desert King Very good
Marseilles vs black- Excellent
Hardy Chicago - Very good
English Brn.Trk. - Average
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Aug.14 2008 ___Main crop
Celeste -Excellent
Marseilles vs Black -Close to Excellent
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Aug 22-2008 Main crop
Sal's#1(gene strain) - Very ,very good
Conadria DFIC5 - -Good
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AUG 25--2008 Main crop
Barnisotte Black -Excellent
Blue Celeste-- Excellent
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Aug 29--2008 main crop
Beall -- Excellent
Gino's Fig --Excellent+ closed eye
Violette de Bordeaux(Raintree) -- Excellent,but not a VDB,in my opinion???
LSU Gold -- Very good
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September 2--2008--main crop
Green Ischia --(Splitting)(only the first one did) good
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September-5 2008
Archipel -- Good
Wht. Texas Everbearing -- Very sweet,but not all fruit are ripening this year due to fact that it needs hotter climate to be best.
Sicilian black(Italian fig trees) -- very Good
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September 7 2008
Aldo fig -- Very Good
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September 10 2008
Atreano -- Very good Tasting(not like Brown turkey as it was sugested)
Unknown #5 (G MIchalev)-- Excellent in all respects
San Pietro---good,but tree grows painfully slow
UCD- 143-36 ---very good,so far the best I have seen coming from Davis reaserch,and I tried a dozen till now.I have found most of them to be Wishi Washy,as one might say.
Yet this one is good but Nothing is done with it ,not even to give it a proper name.
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Tacoma Violet-very good and adapted to our weather.
Weeping Fig:Good Tasting large fig
Brown Turkey #2:(G Michalev)--The best Brown Turkey so far.
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September 17-2008
Marylane seedless--Very good and seedless indeed!!!
Later on at end of September Splitted open,and soured, after 4 days of rain.
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September 20-2008
Stella--Very good large figs
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September 28-2008
English Brown Turkey-Good enough for this week rainy weather!!!
Bayernfeige Violetta-Just as good as English Brn Trk,and adapted to rain too.This 2 Like Hotter weather than we had this year.
Most fruits refuses to finish ripening,because of cold.
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Octomber 5-2008
Zingarella-Excellent
Paradiso-First fig on this and it was sour on tree.Will wait,for another to evaluate.Two More ripe fruits eaten by Squierels this time despite net.
Mission-First fig eaten by my dogs,will wait for another to evaluate.
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Oct.6-2008
Mission-Very good for the bad climate we have this year.
Later 2 more ripe fruits eaten by squierels,despite Net cover.
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Wed.Oct 15
Malta Black: Very good tasting small fruited fig
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Monday Octomber 20
Today we had frost and the top leaves are burned on most figs.
I was harvesting another 2 pounds of ripe figs today from My Marseilles vs black fig,and Sal's (Gene strain)wich is under net.
Squierells decimated the other larger trees,Hardy Chicago and another Mars.VS,wich are too big for nets.
The end of season is close but some tree will ripe a few good figs even after frost.
There are a lot more fruits near ripe on many trees.
We will see.!!!!
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Saturday Nov.1
Last 3 Days I had a few very tasty ripe fruits,from:Marseilles vs black,Violette de Bordeaux(raintree),Zingarella,Ischia Green,Sal's (GEne strain)And Beall.
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2009
I am happy to report:
July 17 2009
First Ripe fruits here in Willingboro NJ
Desert King breba
Sweet Georg (Viena Fig,from GM collection)Breba
See Pixes Below
Will coment about taste and flavor in a couple of days ,as i leave them longer on tree to get maximum possible flavor.
This Year Desert King is about one week sooner in getting ripe fruits.
Sweet Georg,is an young tree,(second year),and fruited first ,now.
Happy Gardening
I will like to close the description of my 2009 Fig season:
This was the worst Sommer,for figs,with 60 inches of rain for the Year,and the coldest Sommer I met since I grow figs on this Location.
At least a dozen cultivars managed to make ripe fruits in this conditions,but they were totally off color,and most dark figs looked somewhat the same,grey green in color.
Even in this conditions,the taste on these (Willing),cultivars was good enough for fresh consumption,and fig Jam.
The best performer (quality wise),were:
Gino's fig,Marseilles vs black,Atreano,143-36,Hardy Chicago,Scot's Black,Mission(GM),Malta Black,Tacoma Violett.
Marseilles vs black win in harvest size again,but I have a hint that If Atreano will be hardy here,then it will be surpassed by Atreano.
I wish to all a hot dry Sommer in 2010!!
2010 Results
Desert King Breba 07-04 2010 Super duper tasty
Atreano 07-06 2010 Super Tasty and sugary,!!!
Kathleen Black Breba 07-12-2010 Very good taste
Lindhurst White breba 07-12 Very good Similar to Atreano but much darker strawberry inside.
Marseilles vs Blk. Main crop -07-30-2010,--Now that is early for main crop,no doubt,and a very satisfing ,easy to grow quality fig.
Improved Celeste,Main,08-05-2010
Gino's Fig,main, 08-05-2010
Stella, Main, 08-09-2010
Tiny Celeste Main 08-09-2010
Atreano Main 08-11-2010
AUGUST 15-2010
Blue Celeste
Conadria
Lindhurst wht
H Chicago
Malta Black
Tacoma Violett
Don Fortissi Blk
August 19
DFIC 17 Brown Turkey
August 25
143-36
Kathleen Black
Paradiso Bronze
Don Fortissi black
Black Sicilian
White Sicilian
Skardu Black
Brown Turkey #2
Sal(gene strain)
English Brn Turkey
White Texas Everbearing
I would like to mention that all my figs,except Desert King,(breba fig),are in ground here in the temperate climate of NJ,and the cultivars are getting ripe normally without using any tricks,like greenhouse,getting it in and out of garage etc.
Because the Sommer is hot and cooperating,all the fruits to this point are excellent tasting,no exception.
September and October:
A few young figs produced late crops of main crop fruits and some of them were quite excellent tasting,thow later than normal in getting ripe due to age.
These are:
JH Adriatic
Bataglia Green
Paradiso White
Nero 600m
Sal Corleone
Weeping fig
Late Black
Scott's Black
The year was good but not great in getting fruits ripe.
Sommer heat came late in JUly,then July and August was too hot(100+),and from September 10 it was cooling down to 40 very fast and never got warm again till frost was in at the end of October.
To this date since 1988,---2007 was the year with the best warm climate ,long Sommer for fig,and best tasting ripe fruits.
Wish you a 2007 type Sommer in 2011
2011
AUGUST 1:I had good tasting Breba from :
Sicilian Black
Gino
Marseilles black vs
Atreano
JH Adriatic
Maltese Falcon
Kathleen Black
Italian Honey
Improved Celeste
Malta black
August 10:Main crop started getting ripe:
Due to a lot of rain(almost every day),my figs getting ripe now trough August are containing too much water to taste as good as they can.
Getting ripe:
Celeste Blue
Improved Celeste
Gino
Marseilles vs black
Tacoma Violett
Malta black
Atreano
Italian Honey
Sal Gene
September 1st-2011