I'm pretty sure Fransisco has been happy with his name for about 3 years now. Let's try not to encourage naming confusion, we have quite enough of that already...Oh and there's already a purple passion if I recall well.

lol.... Devin, I was, of course, only kidding....

I'm always willing to help, Francisco.

Particularly when it involves testing a good variety from Algarve that you discovered. :-)

Send it my way and i will tell you something next year.

Brian.... I see... Thank you for clarifying that for me....

Terrible Brian, some people just won't share.....life goes on. As one most famous person says....."sad"

Francisco,

I still haven't had a single case of chip grafting that produced figs the same year.

Only whip and tongue has managed that and only in a few varieties grafted to a very robust adult tree.
And, many times, because the grafts are usually done in March/April the figs start developing rather late for that variety in that first year, and some don't ripe fully.

For instance, i grafted Sbayi in March, it produced several figs that were still immature in September. Only a few matured in October. In November, without leaves, the grafted branch still had several immature figs.
I don't know if that's the usual behavior for this variety but i doubt it. We shall see this year.

Some photos - Here

Jaime,

IMO, we dealing with somehow diff climates and soils.
The leaves of your Sbayi, here, will never show that 'green' - BTW .. only Curia and Pastillière do it !
Forty miles east of my place certain varieties from same gene source mature at least 3 weeks ahead!
The rectangle is tiny but very diverse!
Please select best southern exposure on healthy/robust limbs and to get full sun
Will do best to send enough sticks for you to test various methods .
Francisco

Francisco,

These 'green' colored leaves are from May.



In mid September they had a more lighter, yellower hue and in October, probably due to lack of water and a heat wave in early October, they all turned brown and falled (last photo taken in November)





But you are right. Whenever possible, with late ripening varieties, i should select the southern limbs to graft.

>>Will do best to send enough sticks for you to test various methods 
Thanks.