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When does Brebba start in PA

  • Nic40
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I live outside Harrisburg PA and I have just under 20 different types of figs now. I started collecting last year and traded and purchased a lot. Anyways, I have several that are in 3 gallon pots that are big enough to throw a fig. I look every other day and don't see anything other than natural growth. At what point do Brebba figs start to form? The photo is from a month ago so everything is further along now

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You should have already noticed breba by now if you were going to get any. Mine were already forming over a month ago. If you've got good new growth, you might start seeing bumps for the main crop relatively soon.

  • Nic40
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Thank you so much I greatly appreciate it. I just uploaded another photo. Is that the start of a fig or another branch?

That's a bud trying to become a branch.

Figs form at the leaf nodes.  For main crop figs, look at the spot where the stem of a leaf meets the branch.  it'll look like a little BB.

Re brebas (you'e in the same zone as me), you'd see buds in April/early May on potted plants at former (last year's) leaf nodes.  By now they would either (a) have dropped, because many varieties don't like to ripen brebas; or (b) have grown so that they'd look little figs, maybe the size of a dime to the size of a quarter.

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