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Which varieties only produce brebas?

Thought I'd throw this out there folks,I've tried using the search function but could not find what I was looking for.

This time of year fig trees have either finished main crop or what is left is not going to ripen.However,there is one Unknown I admire locally which has NO maincrop whatsoever.Shortly after I discovered it in June I think,the only fig I could see was gone.Ive watched it since and after visiting it today(snip snip snip) there is no sign of a main crop at all.

I posted about it here:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/my-wild-city-figid-help-8208285?pid=1293104975

I don't want to start another topic on good Breba producers(Breba new world sorted that) or varieties which drop main crop without pollination.Just literally and specifically,I am looking to understand which varieties only produce Breba crop.

Thanks folks

I cannot categorically say that such fig does not exist that only produce one crop (breba) which grows on previous years growth where the leaves used to be, and does not grow any main crop figs that grow on the current year growth next to the leaves. But that is only my experience of not having grown/found such variety.
 
However, F4F website has a statement "Some varieties produce only a breba crop".

http://figs4fun.com/basics_Pruning.html
 which says " Main crop figs form on the new growth that appears this season. Some varieties produce only a breba crop; some have both breba and main-crop figs, and many have only main-crop figs. If you prune a breba-only variety, you reduce or eliminate your fruit for that year. If you prune a variety with breba and main-crop figs, you sacrifice the breba crop. If you prune a main-crop-only variety, you lose nothing. In my opinion, breba-crop figs are not numerous, and mostly of inferior taste, sweetness and quality. MORE"

Thanks Ottowan,I was aware of that statement and have seen it elsewhere as well,I know Desert Kimg for example only ripens the Breba and occasionally the odd main crop,but that's the only one I know.I had expected this tree to at least try to set a main crop(even if it dropped or was lost over the winter) but no,nothing,I could understand if there was no new growth or the new growth had been pruned but it hasn't been,it's grown a lot and is completely uncared for

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Maybe this could be a caprifig? Caprifigs produce 3 crops, but I've read somewhere that some caprifigs can be irregular producers.

Edit: According to Condit in his publication “Caprifigs and caprification”, some caprifigs produce little or no mammoni figs (summer crop) or mamme crop (winter crop): https://archive.org/stream/caprifigscaprifi319cond#page/n17/mode/2up
The profichis (spring crop) grow on the wood of the previous season’s growth and can therefore been mistaken for brebas. A fig tree with only brebas could in fact be a caprifig that only produces a profici crop.

Haslamhulme
My response was related to your statement:
"However,there is one Unknown I admire locally which has NO main crop whatsoever"

From your question and above statement I understood that you meant that fig grow on the previous years growth and no fig appears on the current year growth that seemed odd to me and had not experienced with any variety. Desert King does not fit that variety. DK ripens breba and occasionally ripens a few main crop which I have observed a couple of times including this year ripening a few main crop figs but not as sweet as the breba.

Desert King
Fiorone di Ruvo
Filacciano Bianco
Grantham's Royal/Dauphine
Lampeira Preta
Mykonos Black
Gilette/Croisic

It would be nice for those varieties that we only grow from Breba if there was a way to prevent them from producing main crop figs to maximize the next years breba crop potential. :)

Thanks for the responses guys,I thought it was weird as well,I was like 'huh?,where's my main crop' lol.Im wondering then whether this produces an extremely early main crop(like in June) so I'm mistaking he main crop for the Breba,or some cultural reason means it hasn't formed main crop either at all or yet,maybe this is an extremely late main crop fig?

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