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came home and walked around the back deck to check on the trees. to my surprise, there were 1 VdB and 1 Paradiso Gene ripen and ready to be taken. VdB, i just ate it on spot. no pix. 

Paradiso Gene has honey on the eye and a bug. so i took it inside and cleaned it and decided to take the pix. 

it was sweet, had something more, but not exactly berry or melon. just comfortably nice taste as last yr. but i think it was a notch better than last yr. unlike the spring of 2012 Paradiso Gene, this one was suitably ugly. but still tasted like a heaven. didn't noticed too much seed crunch this time. not sure why. with no rain in last two days, i think this one took a good time to ripen. 

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Nice Pete, thanks for sharing
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Thanks for posting the pics Pete and flavor.
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Thanks, Pete. What is that coin? Is it as large as a quarter?
Can you compare this taste to a JH?
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Sounds good thanks for sharing about it and the pictures.
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that's korean coin.. 500 won.. it's about the size of quarter. i'm still waiting on the JH Adriatic.. so not sure if they are similar or different. i know that gene h. used to say this was one of the best green fig. i like it, but the taste is very humble. sort of like i like to drink Gunness or Boddington instead of those super hop'ed microbrew stuff. 
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just came home from vacation and had 5 Paradiso Gene. with 3 days of rain, and past history of figs blowing up, i wasn't looking for much.. but "WOW". none of the figs blew up, and they retained much of the flavor. it's not exactly the top flavor.. after all, it rained for 3 days while they were ripening.. but it was still sweet with honey flavor. it's quickly becoming my top fig. 

my computer broke last week. using my son's labtop.. won't upload pix for awhile.. i can still do it.. just that it's lot of pain doing things on the laptop. 
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"don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." - sir winston churchill
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - the baroness thatcher

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***** and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...*****
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Hi Pete, beautiful looking fig. I take it that Paradiso Gene is different from Paradiso that Joe Morle sells. Can you post a picture of your Paradiso leaf next time? How many different Paradisos are out there, in your opinion?Thanks.
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ditto. how many are there? yours is green, mine is bronze, all different.
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i was told that if i couldn't deal with fmv, i should grow peaches, so i got a peach tree to live with my clean figs.
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Nice fig Pete! There are maybe 5 or 6 different figs with Paradiso in the name. Pretty sure there are a couple threads with that info.
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i'll generate a new thread.. "Fico Paradiso". 
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***** and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...*****
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Pete,

This is a nice fig!

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one from today. had honey dripped off the eye plugged it. 
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"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - the baroness thatcher

***** all my figs have FMV/FMD, in case you're wondering. *****
***** and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...*****
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Awesomeeeeeeeee! 
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nice,,
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Nice fig !

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thank you guys. been taking pix with my new phone. Calvert is about ready for photo ok :)
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"don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." - sir winston churchill
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - the baroness thatcher

***** all my figs have FMV/FMD, in case you're wondering. *****
***** and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...*****
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