Manzanita Black Main 2021

[Evdurtschi]

There will be many more and they will mostly be even better than this one bc I accidentally knocked it off when I was moving trees around and knocked into it.

This was delicious! It was not caprified but still had nice moderate berry flavor with a nice soft chewy skin that was sweet and it had a dense and jammy interior.

I was so excited to see it that I started eating before I remembered I needed to take a pic of the inside. 😬

Definitely a promising start for this tree!

[oat]

I’m looking forward to this one. I rooted some cuttings and also grafted one. I hope they can get to this level of ripeness.

[Frankenberry]

Looking forward to this!

[acerpictum]

It looks mesmerizing! Is this your find?
California is located very, very far from the Caucasus

[Vladis]

Мне присылали черенки из Калифорнии. Были бы деньги на ЕМС.

[JoePAFig]

Very happy to see it looking so good uncaprified, hopefully mine will look like that in the not so distant future.

[BlueEagle1967]

Eric, stupid question.....you have the wasp so how do you know when a variety is caprified or not?

[Evdurtschi]

If you put the seeds in water and they float, they haven’t been caprified. Caprified seeds sink

[BlueEagle1967]

Excellent. Thanks for the response Eric and it's very much appreciated.

[Dfoster25]

Looks nice Eric

[Dtownfigs]

Lovely!! Eric, I’m wondering when BM ripens. Early, Mid, Late???

[Evdurtschi]

Good question. :-) I am not a good judge of that but it seems pretty early this year

[Dtownfigs]

Looking forward to more reports from different parts of the country

[Achilles]

The main crop is def mid-season....obviously based on climate but not late by any means.

[SubmarinePete]

This is the same as Black Manzanita, correct?

I see you aren’t getting the super dark pulp on yours either. I wonder if that comes from caprification?

Black Manzanita was actually my first fig to ripen this year and I thought that was just a one-off because I started it under grow lights, but now I have a bunch of them ripening and the only other ones ripening are ones that are usually “early” figs. Maybe this is an earlier variety?

[Evdurtschi]

Oops. Yes. It’s Black Manzanita. I keep switching it.
The ones I tried last year were not caprified either and were the super dark color but they were also totally ripe. Maybe that comes with age or something.

[SubmarinePete]

Evdurtschi Ok, I'm going to try to let these get super ripe then and see if I can get the coloring. Thanks!

[Michael]

I got a few Black Manzanita cuttings this year, and they rooted stronger and faster than anything else I tried this year. I waited until it was warm outside to root on the porch, so now I have a few young ones growing. Won't be big enough to fruit this year, but I'm looking forward to this one next year.

[Achilles]

I've found it to be one of the most aggressive and vigorous growers in my collection. Rooted cuttings from Jan are now 5ft tall and frutiing.

[Michael]

I think CA is just a magic land for figs.

[leon_edmond]

Eric, thanks for the nice photo and the fact that this fig is not caprified (allows us non-wasp folks to see what the common fig looks like) About what size do these figs get?

[Evdurtschi]

I didn’t weigh it but I would say it is a medium/large fig

[Achilles]

Def mid to large sized fig

[leon_edmond]

@Evdurtschi
@Achilles

Thank you. It looks like a nice fig. I have several scion grafts of this variety and I am eager to see how it performs in New Mexico.