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Subject: Help with Fig ID Replies: 3
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Hi, 

I have 2 fig trees in my yard.  I've been trying for several years to figure out the varieties.  I would greatly appreciate any help.  

Fig 1 was bought as a Brown Turkey - but I have my doubts that that is what it really is.  I live in SC.  The tree is about 6 years old and is about 11 feet tall.  It produces a very small breba crop and main crop is in late June/early July.  Figs are small, brownish, red flesh, and very very sweet.   The ladder in the pic is 6 feet tall. tree with ladder.jpg  
Here's how they droop when ripe: 
figs on tree.jpg 
That's a quarter on the leaf. figs and leaf 2.jpg 

Fig 2 makes very different figs.  This tree is from an offshoot of a tree in my Mom's yard - which was growing there already when we bought the house in 1976.  So its an older variety I guess.  My tree is about 4-5 years old and is about 8 feet tall.  It makes a few brebas.  Main crop is in late July/early August.  Figs are larger, triangle shaped, with thick stems and skin - they never droop even when ripe because of the thickness of the short fat stem. They are also brownish with red flesh.  The flesh is sweet but the flavor is different because of the thick skin - which gives it a tinge of an almost vegetable like flavor mixed in with the sweetness. same ladder in the pic. These figs go from little to huge very quickly when ripening.    

tree with ladder.jpg  Here's how they don't droop when ripe: 
ripe fig on tree.jpg 
figs leaf and quarter.jpg 

And finally here are both figs next to each other for comparison: 
both figs with quarter.jpg 
Any thoughts?  Thanks
Shannon 

Subject: Can someone help me ID my fig trees Replies: 8
Posted By: shanc21 Views: 816
 

Thanks y'all.  After doing some research I can totally see my first tree as being a Celeste.  Everything fits with information of the internet about Celeste, except that it was sold to me as a Brown Turkey.  Is it common for fig plants to be mislabeled when sold?

I am still not sure about my second plant.  It doesn't match up quite up as strongly with the info on the internet about Brown Turkey.  But it could be.  I will keep searching.  To me the two most distinctive things about this fig is the triangular shape and the distinctive, but not overly sweet flavor.  The info for Brown Turkey often say it is sweet and the pictures I see are often quite rounded - which is not really like mine.  But maybe there is just a lot of variation in Brown Turkey? 


Subject: Can someone help me ID my fig trees Replies: 8
Posted By: shanc21 Views: 816
 
Hi,

I have two fig trees in my yard.  The first one is supposed to be a Brown Turkey - I ordered it from a nursery as such - I'm wondering if it really is.  I'm very happy with it, whatever it is, but am just curious.  It was from a bare root stock plant about 4 years ago and is now about 15 feet tall.  It produces small to medium purply brown very sweet figs with usually a closed eye.  No breba crop to speak of, but a heavy main crop around the first week of July.  I am in Columbia, SC. 

The second fig tree, I really need help with.  It came from an old tree in my Mom's yard.  We have never known the variety.  The figs are definately different from my first tree (bt?).  We planted this one about 3 years ago - it was from a small plant growing under my Mom's tree (I think where a branch got buried and rooted - do figs do that?).  Anyway it was a small plant in a pot when we planted it and is now about 8 feet tall.  It produces a few brebas and then a main crop beginning around last week of July.  My Mom's tree makes two crops but this one doesn't yet.  The figs are larger than my first tree (bt?), kind of triangular with a thick base, usually an open eye, a thick skin, and pinkish flesh.  They are not as sweet as the figs from my first tree (bt?), and have a distinctive stronger flavor.  I believe the mother tree was planted in the late 60's or early 70's as that is when the house was built - we moved in 76, so it was definately a full grown producing tree by that point.  Don't know if that will help with narrowing down the variety. Oh and the eye on this one looks very much like the eye on the fig second from the right in the picture above.  Ants will go in there if you don't pick them in time. 

Here is a link to some photos of the fruit and leaves of the two trees. 

https://picasaweb.google.com/shanc21/Figs?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKiIrqux4KPkoQE&feat=directlink

Thanks for any help!!

Shannon