PHD
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Hi everyone, just curious what variety you have been most disappointed with and is up for elimination if it does not perform better this year.
bullet08
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Posted 1341105701
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Since I don't have BT, I'm fine for now :)
Centurion
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I have two. My BT and Persian White.
bullet08
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Posted 1341107095
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dang.. the picture of persian white looked so good.. i might have to think again.
rafed
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Pete,
Dieseler
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Number 2 and number 6 container on my patio.
rafed
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Martin,
Centurion
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Posted 1341107567
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Just messing with you Pete. My two brown turkeys are stayin put and I don't have a Persion White. Sorry. Couldn't help myself. : -)
rafed
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Dave,
PHD
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Martin,
rafed
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PHD,
bullet08
1284496248
Posted 1341107991
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check out the picture bass has on his site. it's just amazing looking fig. i'm sure martin won't approve.
pitangadiego
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Posted 1341109222
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None. They will all be joining the Figs 4 Fun Foundation.
http://encantofarms.com
http://figs4fun.com
http://webebananas.com
james
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Posted 1341116054
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I have a seven+ year old (3 years in a container and 4 years in the ground). It has never grown a fig. It was on the block to be cut out at the end of the year. Today I realized it is a nice vigorous grower so I decided instead of chopping it, use it for grafting fodder.
2016 Wish List: Dārk Pōrtuguese, Grānthāms Royāl, Lātarolla, Negrettā, Nōire de Bārbentāne, Rockāway Green, Viōlet Sepōr , Viōlette Dā uphine . Iranian figs are always welcome.
fespo
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Posted 1341137189
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Martin, what day is your garbage day? I think I will pass by looking for #2 & 6.
Dieseler
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Frank Wed morning about 7am.
Gina
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Posted 1341162161
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LOL, I think it's a great question, but if people aren't yet sure about a fig, they may not really want to say lest they get too many requests for it.
http://www.Ourfigs.com (and blueberries)
satellitehead
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Posted 1341162455
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BT went bye-bye this year and Italian Honey is soon to follow. I'll probably trade the IH with someone local instead of trashing it, though. If anyone local to me has something good to trade for IH, lemme know.
TucsonKen
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I had been planning to nuke my very prolific "Improved" Brown Turkey (which tastes delicious, by the way) because for the past few years the fruit has been soured by beetles. This year, however, it's ripening fruit and the beetles haven't appeared yet, so I've given it a temporary stay of execution. I also plan to toss a Giant Amber (prone to souring in my yard), a DIFIC0164-1 that I ordered by mistake from UCD back in 2010 (I read the wrong line on the order form), and a UCR 143-38 (although I'm second guessing because it continues to ripen quite a lot of decent fruit, despite being completely neglected. Who knows what it might do if I started taking care of it?
Isthisme
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Posted 1341190237
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So far my LSU purple has not been good. There must be more than 1 strain of this fig and I have the bad one. I think I will cut it down this fall and plant Figo
Tonycm
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Posted 1341191471
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I have an unknown that didn't have anything last year and so far not one fig this year, breba or main crop. Not sure yet whether to keep it one more year and go through the bother of covering it up for winter again. If I do keep it and nothing grows on it next year than it will definitely be a goner. Can't have none producers taking up valuable space.
northeastnewbie
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Posted 1341192508
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I have a black Mission that was doing good but froze off to the ground last year. it emerged full of FMV It is going to the fire barrel just as soon as I have found a suitable replacement. Might go with a Chicago Hardy I have a few in 1 gal pots.....
BLB
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Marty,
timclymer
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Posted 1341194778
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I had an lsu purple when we lived in Houston and i loved it. I dont know if it would ever get ripe here outside of a greenhouse.
http://threefoldfarm.org - Fig trees and farm updateshttps://www.facebook.com/ThreefoldFarm
nypd5229
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Posted 1341195494
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BT- Not really anything special
PHD
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Dominick, maybe give the Tashkent another year or 2. I have a friend who had the same problem with FMV,I think he might have heavily pruned it and it is now over 5ft tall and produce's good figs. I hope to have an opportunity to try one this summer.
sirlampsalot
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Zidi, which I got from UCD is now 3 years old and not a hint of a fig yet.
nypd5229
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Thanks Pete
snaglpus
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Posted 1341236026
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Lampsalot, it is correct! Zidi is a smyrna type. So, the figs will not ripen without the wasp. It is one beautiful tree! It is extremely hardy too!
PHD
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Its that time again to decide which varieties have not performed well enough to keep. Which of your varieties are up for elimination this year?
rafaelissimmo
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Brooklyn White gets the hook for me. Morle's Paradiso and Goccia d'oro are on thin ice too.
cis4elk
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My Peter's Honey, it just isn't productive enough. That and only about 20% of the figs turn out excellent, the remainder are pretty much inedible crap. I don't think it likes me or Colorado, either way it's moving on. The other is a Celeste I started a couple years ago, I have no patience for a tree that drops 100% of it's tiny figs.
jdsfrance
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Hi,
Herman2
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Posted 1413814311
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I did already discarded this year:
greenfig
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Herman,
Herman2
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It was third Summer,and it was supposed to produce something.
71GTO
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Hi Herman, what was wrong with the Black Ischia from gardenoway?
pino
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Posted 1413818763
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Up for elimination sounds so final. I prefer to look at it as put up for trade, giveway or even for sale.
Pino, zone 6, Niagara, JCJ Acres
Herman2
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Mark Gardenoway Ischia b was Celeste.
71GTO
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Posted 1413820799
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Thanks Herman, I must have missed that at the bottom of your post. Celeste must be te universal pass off as something else fig. I've had two this year.
Rewton
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Posted 1413828668
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A month or so ago I freecycled two trees: an UNK that turned out to be a Celeste variant (I already am growing Improved Celeste so it seemed redundant) and a Violette de Bordeaux. The VdB always grew poor in a container for some reason. I then planted it in the ground and it did better but the figs were almost all split and soured under not particularly rainy conditions - very strange. I replaced with a VdB from an excellent source.
Posturedoc
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Posted 1413829764
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I find that most of the figs I'll be eliminating are honey types. If they are not consistently really sweet or have some other indefinable quality, I'm not keeping them around.Peter's Honey - has been sweet in the past, though the skin is always tough, but this year my two trees (one came as White TX Everbearing from UCD but is identical to Peter's Honey from Burnt Ridge) produced exactly no good figs between them out of 50+ fruits. I'm not sure why, but just okay past performance plus unpredictability = gone.Mary Lane Seedless - one of my most productive trees, but the fruit has never been any better than blandly sweet for the four season's it has produced fruit for me. I don't think it's going to improve.Encanto Excel - not the real Excel and a small, thick skinned, blandly sweet fig for me.Blue Celeste UCD - Celeste with a modifier. A fine fig, but different than Celeste it is not, and I'll be dumping a mess of duplicate Celeste's too.
GreenFin
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Conadria -- I don't like the flavor of that variety (it ripened about 15 figs), especially compared to my other varieties.
James, zone 6a Kansas (zone 10 greenhouses); wish list is in my profile http://www.FigCuttings.com
MichaelTucson
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So interesting to see the comments in this thread! Two of them that some of you have on the chopping block are excellent here. (Whether they're really identical fig varieties is another question, what with multiple sources, etc.). And of course taste is subjective as well. But overall it just highlights the notion that location matters: how well a fig turns out in my locale may be very very different from how it will do at your locale. For example, Conadria here is excellent. (Whether mine is really the same as yours James, I don't know. And maybe if you tasted the ones grown here, you wouldn't like them simply because our tastes are different, or maybe you'd find them appealing because they turn out differently when grown here compared with Kansas). But I can tell you that here, Conadria has been excellent. I've got a third year tree in a pot (about 2.5 years old now), and it produced at least 50 ripe figs this year. They were sweet, juicy, mildly crunchy (seeds), and had great flavor. They're also rather large, which is nice. Most have been 50 - 60 grams each, and at least one of them was between 75 and 80 grams. It's my son's favorite variety (or so he states). Not smack-you-in-the-face sweet, but very appealing. Though not my favorite (I'm partial to Aubique Petite and Hardy Chicago, and a few others), it is nonetheless an excellent fig. I picked three more of them just today, and can't wait to go eat them. I'd rate it 8 out of 10 overall. Similarly, Peter's Honey is on the chopping block for some of you, and it's a great fig here. A real keeper. (Again, all the caveats about who knows if it's really identical to the ones that you guys have). Though some of the figs spoil on the tree (they hold on to the wood really tightly, and if you let them get overripe, they tend to spoil rather than dry like most other varieties do here), my potted tree produced easily 100 figs, of which I'd estimate 50 - 70 of them have been excellent honey figs. The skin is a bit tough (moreso on the main crop than on the breba), but with a beautiful and very ripe honey flavored center, it's easy for me to overlook the tough skin. Definitely a keeper in my location.looked nice enough, but that's about the only good thing I can say about them. Still, I'll give it another year and see if it really is worth waiting.here , but reputedly makes very nice figs elsewhere... it also makes some of the largest leaves I've seen on a fig tree... around 18" across), and Jurupa (same story... I heard that this one does very well where there's real heat). I suspect all three of those will do much better in warmer climes, but they don't seem suited to cold climate fig growing.
Pauca sed matura.
PHD
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@rafaelissimmo: I also have La Goccia D'Oro from Joe Morle for 3 years and have not eaten one fig. It has one more year. Have you had the same issue?
NativeSun
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I had an Italian 258 that tasted like crap, but because it is "rare" I sold it on eBay for a zillion dollars, hahahaha
brettjm
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Posted 1413925970
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In short, none. Only have 3 total with 2 varieties (one is an air layer from the other...you know...for kicks I guess). Gotta say that between the LSU purple and Chicago hardy, the CH has more figginess, while the LSU purple has much better sweetness, but both are far from their potential. The CH is only a 2nd year plant, so it better get better with age if it wants to live on, as it was pretty bland. As for the LSU, it was pretty good last year (as a 3rd year tree). This year was its 4th year, and its main ripening time was filled with a ton of rain, causing most of the figs to be bland and watery. I had some late figs though that I let get nice and droopy and they were excellent. Amazingly, it's still producing tiny little figs even now in zone 8a. I keep picking them off though, really hoping it saves that energy so its poised for a massive growth spurt. Also excited for my first ever UCD shipment this spring, although I regret some of my decisions already. Alas, there is always the following year.
more space to put in figs.
rafaelissimmo
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