Hi forum! I hope everyone has been enjoying their fresh, ripe figs so far this season!
I just wanted to show y'all some pictures I took of a few main crop figs from an unknown San Pedro type fig tree of Italian origin that's been in my family for a while. As most of you know by now, San Pedro type figs can set a breba crop WITHOUT need of any pollination from the fig wasp; on the other hand, the main crop of San Pedro fig trees NEED to be pollinated by the fig wasp to develop their fruits properly.
This first picture is of a cut-in-half main crop fig from the San Pedro type fig tree, and as you can see, it's busting at the seams with color, sugar, seeds, and pulp! Delicious! Exactly like the brebas! The wasps did a good job on this fig.
Now, here is a picture of a fig that was about 90% pollinated. It still had an great, sweet taste, due to the fact that the majority of the fig was pollinated, but the flowers where the fig wasp was not able to pollinate can clearly be seen to the left and to the right of the eye. They are tasteless, sugarless, and colorless.
This next fig wasn't so lucky. It's only about 25% pollinated, and the majority of the fig is not developed properly. As you can imagine, it was tasteless compared to the other pollinated ones.
Just so everyone knows, I assure you that all the figs pictured above are from the same tree (they look a little bit different due to bad lighting).
With 90% of my figs pollinated, and living in an area where the fig wasp was introduced and is currently thriving, it's shocking that I've never actually seen those tiny fig wasps with my naked eye; I recon they should really be called fig ninjas or something :)
I'm happy to add whatever I can to the already huge amount of data, information, and experiences shared on this forum. Feel free to comment, and please correct me if I have given any false information. Best of luck to everyone!
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