Originally Posted by ANDREASC hello far away friends of this lovely fig community. have received precious knowledge amongst u guys... so i salute u all..greetings from the island of cyprus. u must be refering to vartika/vardika/valtika figs. slight differences in name may occur in different locations/cities...and imagine we r only a drop in the ocean... vardika may perhaps be a relative of the bardacik fig... if not the same... so yes vardika is one of the best cypriot figs. figs split if u water the tree in summer.has one long crop from mid july till mid nov.it is green with red interior and with extra refined sweetness... sun makes miracles here...late in august they become sweeter than honey...literally.. diabetics stay away... i ll try to attach few pics tomorrow but have to resize cause my mob pics seem to be larger than 1mb... till then, my regards..andreas
Andreas, thank you for clearing that up! Her father passed away and that's the spelling she gave me.She came over in 1974 and her father brought cuttings.She has 2 figs she does not remember the names of.Maybe this sumer i can take picture of leaf and fruit and you could identify them.She also has a strawberry fig from Cyprus and it grows very well here with delicious figs. Thanks, Grant __________________ South Carolina zone 7b
