Hi all fig fellows,

I am new to the forum and relative new to fig growing. Just want to say hello to everyone and has a question hoping someone can ID my fig tree.

Started last summer from cuttings shared by a local gardening forum. Got 4 different cuttings from 3 sources. 3 of them are green figs and the other one is dark. None of them has known variety name, people just grow and enjoy, lol. Probably started too late last year, there was no figlet early spring which means no breba crop. All of them started to have figlet end-June to early-July and I believe they are so called main crop. After some research, I highly suspect all the 3 green fig trees are the most popular variety here in Vancouver, Desert King. If that is true, there is no enough heat for the main crop to ripen. I will wait and see.

The other dark variety also has a few figs hanging on the tree. I am eager to know the name of this baby and whether the main crop will ripen. Please see the pictures of the fruit and leaf. Now sure it can be determined at this stage, or I just need to have more patience to see how it turns out.

Thanks!!

   

 

 

Aside from the cuttings started last year, I also purchased several cuttings and TC plants in May and June this year. My collection is:
Desert King - cutting
Gilette - cutting
Vashon Violet - cutting
Olympian - TC
VBD - TC
LSU Purple - TC
Celeste - TC
Green Ischia - TC
Little Ruby - TC
Unknown varieties mentioned in previous post.

All of them are in pots, planning to have one or two in-ground next Spring.

Am I fall in love with figs too soon? LOL

Welcome, Eric! It looks like the pictured tree is negronne/violette de Bordeaux/vista- certainly one of the Bordeaux figs. Congratulations, it is a great tasting fig.

Wellcome and :
I agree with Bill

Welcome, Are They TC plants? that's why so many suckers?

I got couple TC plants at May as well, I have pest problem(scale) on Olympia, However, it is such fast growing tree, I planted it in ground 1 month ago.

I planted "Desert king" in ground recently as well.

I planted MT Etna fig trees, EX. Hardy Chicago, Fica nero, Etc, my results are bad, I am going to dig them out from ground and put them back to pots this winter.

I agree that negronne/violette de Bordeaux/vista is great tree, I hope that my negronne/VDB grows faster so I can plant them in ground as well.

Good luck for your fig trees with lots of figs.

I am fig eater not fig tree collector and you?

Sorry I'm no help Eric...but welcome aboard. This is a great place for anything fig.

Hi Eric:
I live in Surrey BC, I am new too and trying to find couple trees for our area and make many mistakes.
If you pay attention to fig trees locally, you will see that most of them can not ripen their main crop, I am more interested in "Bebra = first crop" only fig trees.

Hey Ricky,

I am in Surrey too, South Surrey, to be more specific. I should have said "Great-Vancouver" in my signature.

I see your point, I am modifying my wish list to be more Breba oriented.