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What is your best green fig with red interior?

Just a few of my green-reds......difficult to say what is the best...you say!

Common fig nr 1

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Smyrna fig nr 2

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Common fig nr 3

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Seedling fig nr 4 ( could be a Smyrna, but not yet sure)

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A true Smyrna ( believe it to be the most crunchiest white fig in the world)
Not good for the 'seedless' lovers

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Francisco
Portugal


Those look amazing, Francisco!  I love the puddle of syrup in the middle.

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Originally Posted by andreas
for this year my  peloponnisiaka aspra and my tseligato

peloponnisiaka aspra
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tseligato
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Beautiful pictures, Andreas. Thank you!

This is becoming a beautiful fig picture thread! It would be nice to know the name of those common figs.

I read somewhere(unable to recall where) that Blansche Alasche has blood red interior. Hope someone has
a picture.

That is making my mouth water!  Looks delicious!

Quote:
Originally Posted by andreas
for this year my  peloponnisiaka aspra and my tseligato

Andreas - this may be a stupid question, but do you have the wasp in your area?  Your figs and Lampo's look out of this world.

Any votes for Battaglia? 

so far.  Hollier.

@ pino    I do not have a photo in my pc, I will try and take one for you.

@ Francisco  great looking figs my friend.

@ Joe  thank you!!!

@ joann1536 thank you, I would soooo love to taste one at this time myself J

@ Mike   yes we do have the wasp in Greece. in fig orchards they plant one Capri / 10 trees. I never bothered with anything like that. But like I said we do have it here…  I think Francisco does something like that (he has awesome figs)

@ Yeehova here is one that is not green, but its not dark….

ohra tabahanosika

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Too bad the wasp doesn't live in NC. What is the coldest area the wasp is known to inhabit? I dont think it could live here, but I have a brother in central Florida....

Outside a greek church here they have a tree where the fig exterior is lime colour with blood red interior. No
one knows its name. Going by hardly any figs drop to the ground, it could be a great tasting fig. I manage to sample
a couple of brebas that were not fully ripe. It was a productive tree and fig size is large. The office people at the church
tells me many people comes to get cuttings.

@ paully22
it looks like you found youself a great fig.
good luck with it 


Thank you fellows for your comments on my post with those fig pictures

Brian,

The names for those figs are:

nr1 - Côtio/Verdeal , Common

nr2 - Inchario Branco (strain SV), Smyrna

nr3 - Bebera Branca , Common

nr4 - Seedling (temporarily called Jade fig),  probably Smyrna

nr5 - Inchário Branco (strain AP) , Smyrna

They have all been repeatedly shown and talked about on this forum and there are more pictures on my (lampo) picture file with flickr .

Regarding the question on wasps, I must say yes, we do have wasps...(all over my District) with a full  Med climate... between 10 and 11 as per your standards.
In the country as well as in urban areas it is easy to find fig trees on back and front yards and of the best varieties, be they Common, Smyrna or San Pedro.

To make pollination easy and 'automatic' , people do bud or graft a pair of Caprifig scions on a branch or two of their figs and when the proper time comes (mid June) the wasps from the Caprifigs on the grafted branches will spread in the area and pollinate all figs

On established orchards of hundreds of trees, farmers grow several Caprifig trees in the middle of the other figs in a rate of 1 to 20 or 25 Common or Smyrna.

On Mike's question of what climate for Caprifigs (carica) , I can  say that long...long time ago they were available in Texas and Florida...Western Australia, South Africa,..
The wild fig may stand as all other figs, rather low and/or high temperatures ,however the insect developing inside the wild syconiums will be killed by continued temps bellow 0º C and above 35ºC.

Francisco
Portugal






Battaglia Green
Blanche de Deux Saisons
Col de Dame Blanc


Adriatic JH
Monstrueuse
Brooklyn White
Paradiso "Gene"
Panachee

Excellent pic's and collection Lampo. I think my friends here have nr1 and 3 here.

@Andreas -- I hope so too. It has a beautiful deep red interior inspite of the sampled fig about 60%
ripe.

Paully22,

Thanks. Lucky friends you have!
When the time comes please let us have a look on that 'church fig'. From your description it looks that it is a San Pedro.
Have a list of popular San Pedro figs in Greece but cannot find it
On some hand written notes found these two: but there are more..
‘Μαύρη Βοτανικού’  ,   ‘Φρακασάνα’
May be Andreas can help with the correct translation

Francisco

Dear Andreas (Andreas-Pastras)
Saw pictures of your Peloponnisiaka and Tseligato Figs fruit you posted on Fig4fund. Can I buy a cutting each of these figs from you? Let me know. lebichhop@wowway.com , Thanks Linda