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AltadenaMara

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All the remaining figs on my trees were pulled off today. Three weren’t that good but one wasn’t that bad for this time of year.

Red Israel (Red Palestine) – it had a slight acidity but no sweetness or complexity.

I-258: -bland tasting with a hint of sweetness. No acid taste.

Genovese Nero AF Rafed's Version -sight acidity and light sweetness.

Strawberry Verte (the red one): Jam! It had a nice level of sweetness which was not as sweet as earlier in the year but was sweeter than many of my figs last season. The acidity level was good also. It was the best fig on the plate. All the earlier crop of SV figs fell off the tree in a heat wave last summer.

 I would upload pictures but get the error message below, so you will have to imagine the beautiful dark ruby color of the SV. The others you can forget. 
"(Failed)New Years Figs whole.jpg Error: Storage limit exceeded."
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It's 73 and sunny over here, but the recent brief cold spell killed all the fruit. I've been in short sleeves all week long. At this rate my trees will start waking up soon.
Use http://www.postimg.org I like it (Thanks to TorontoJoe), register a free account upload your photos and click on share to copy the URL then paste when replying to a topic.
You could create as many galleries as you wish and then copy the URL for one photo or the whole gallery then paste it over here.
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Sas, thanks for the photo website suggestion. I'll look into it. I just tried to navigate PhotoBucket to see a fig picture and it is a maze of advertisements. 
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Mara,

Take good care of that Strawbery Verte!In our climate,flavor wise,it's a green Preto.
Up pot it,plant it in ground,whatever you need to do.I can never get quality photo's
of multiple fruits because the wife and her friends raid the tree's at the daily coffee
klatch.
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Paul, you're right about SV being a great fig. The ripe figs it's produced are among the best. I have one tree in a pot and the other in the ground. That's why it was a surprise when the whole crop of summer figs turned yellow and dropped off in the heat wave for both trees. Hopefully this year will be better as the trees mature.  
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