Boss with figs

[Ktrain]

My manager heard me talking fig talk, comes up and says....if I bring you in some figs can you tell me what they are?

Of course I'm not going to turn down a few figs....lol

So here it is, picked a little too soon....but still tasted ok.

I would say VdB....but I thought I'd get the backup of best informative people on the net.

[acerpictum]

Very similar to Violette de Bordeaux.

[JMF75]

Looks very similar to VdB Kevin.

[Ktrain]

Yea that's what I thought too....I will tell him today it's "most likely" that.

Thanks fellow figgers.

[Figology]

Here’s my VDB leaves. It could be Negronne which looks like VDB

[Figology]

Pardon the poor appearance of this tree. I’m refurbishing it. It’s a poor specimen I got from a local nursery.

[Ktrain]

Not a problem....thank you for your input.

I think it wise to go with the premise that being there when he bought his home, and the commonality of VdB in the south.

That is what it is....still a chance it could be something else....but.....long as they taste good, why ask. Lol 😂

[Vitaly Krovlev]

I don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t look like VDB either.

[Bravo_Figaro]

I does look like VDB . Any pics of inside?

[Ktrain]

There are 5 pics....click on the number below the last pic.
I have 2 of the inside.

[Bravo_Figaro]

yeah. not fully ripened but looks like VDB inside to

[Ktrain]

Thanks for your input, appreciated. 👍

[TNJed]

Fig boss….do you work for Ross Raddi?

[Ktrain]

😆. He works for me. Lol

[JCT]

Leaves are a tough variable when it comes to identification. A tree in full sun can have different shaped leaves when compared to a tree in partial shade. Eric had a really good video showing this. That said, those leaves do not really look like my VdB and my tree has both 3 and 5 lobed leaves (and a few spade leaves near the base on new growth.) The 5th lobe is much more developed than what is shown.

[Ktrain]

I'll have to check mine again when I get home.
They were pretty close, knowing there can be variable shapes.

[Drfig]

Vdb. What happened to the blue moon man?

[Ktrain]

lol....I had to lay off the citrus stuff for a bit, that and Shock Top were giving me heart burn.
It'll be back....Land Shark is just temporary.

[bullet08]

so many VdB out there, hard tell which is which. old paradise nursery VdB Gene sold me had very distinct 5 lobe leaves, and slightly bigger figs than that. then there are others being sold with same name, but different size fig and slight different leaves.

[Ktrain]

Yea I was comparing it my both my VdB's....close, but one is young and one is a couple years old.
So they are slightly different.