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the taste and texture is amazing!

It has a unique taste like no other,it tastes like a fog wine and the seeds are crunching
The eye is tight,and the smell is OMG!
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What is it?
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What is it?
~the name is ??
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That is one beautiful fig......hope you brought home cuttings from it.
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Is it a common variety?
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Being teased like this before coffee is no fun!  Come on!  What is it?

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Probably caprified.
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Good to see you posting again George, I am guessing you have been visiting Greece? Please tell us what these beautiful pictures are.

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Does this mean I win some cuttings? 
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Yeah, I want cuttings of each one   :)
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Looks like a winner for sure!
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What is the Greek name in Greek?
They look good and caprified
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Very nice George! And Dave! Thanks for sharing. They look like the figs I ate growing up in Greece and probably Vasilika Melissi. Back then the name was not very significant . This is the main comercial variety. Every summer( med to late August ) a farmer named "Κυρ Σωτήρης" or Mr Sotiris in English , would pass by our house ,usually every two or three days,on a horse and carriage selling his seasonal produce. Tomatoes , zucchini , peppers, vlita(a kind of greens much like kale) soultania grapes( yellow seedless,very sweet) and of course Figs. He always made sure to put a paper bag with a couple of kilos aside for me since he always ended up selling Them out. Later on in the years he replaced the horse with a tractor but the figs always tasted awesome. One time we visited at his farm and picked our own fruit and veggies and I remember one thing that moved my curiosity . I saw rings made of fishing line and dry looking green figs hanging on the fig trees. After I asked, I got the whole story about Capri figs and that wasp( ψινας) as it is called in Greek and polination . That being said ,does not mean that Melissi needs polination to produce. They pollinate them in order to get better and biger fruit for comercial use. Well,since then things have changed and Mr Sotiris has past,as I found out from my Mom, but awesome childhood memories like those live on and now that I grow figs myself have come back to make a whole lot of sense!
Sorry for hijacking your thread George! Sometimes things just come out and need to be said to a friend,or a few! Thanks for your time!
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 caprify me baby!
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Bet it is,the adom fig. ( greek )
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hi all ,sorry for the delay ,I had a problem with my phone.

the person who gave me those figs did not know what kind do were.
I ate those figs the day I was leaving to come back and I did not had the chance to get cuttings from it.
this summer I will go back and I will try to get some cuttings. those figs are not common in that area (Sparta).
but they were the best tasting figs of all the figs I've tried there by far!
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Wow,I want cuttings of each one
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To many of use don't have the wasp needed. Those figs look wonderful. I need some Greek friends.

It's 2015 and we can't figure out how to artificially inseminate a plant but we can do it to more complex organisms.   
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Whats the name of the beautiful? Is it self pollinating?

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So beautiful.   Want it  Need It Got to have it.   Oops  just fell off the Fig Radio Flyer wagon and went to the bottom of the fig recovery program.   Have to give back my id tags.  So Sad   At least You guys understand.   LOL   
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This is a very nice fig.

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That's what we're here for girl( Joyce) !
Aand breath .......
Lol just this one and that's it I tell ya!!!!!!!
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Yiasou Spartiati! 
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looks good enough to spread on some toast or pancakes.
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