Got Brebas?

[PA Figs]

Checking on the greenhouse today, so far the following varieties have brebas:

Desert King
CdDB
Flanders
Bifere
Black Ischia
Fico Preto
Brogiotto Nero
Excel
Sodus Sicilian
Black Madeira
JH Adriatic
Black Mission
VdB

How about everyone else?

[Kelby]

Man, you're mean. I'll have to poach a few since you're at least a month ahead of me.

[PA Figs]

Age old question... how many brebas to leave on. My head says pull em all off, but my heart screams NOOOOOOO!

[Kelby]

Leave some Sodus on for sure, we can compare that to some other potential EBT variants like we talked about.

I'd definitely take all the breba off your Desert King though .

[HarveyC]

I have lots of breba on my in-ground trees and potted trees here. Some varieties seem very productive with breba crop. I don't plan to remove any brebas until I eat them. My Longue d'Aout trees have some brebas but not as many as I expected. For some reason I was thinking it produced more brebas than what I have.

[PA Figs]

Harvey with your long season I imagine you don't have to worry about removing brebas like us in the Northeast!

[HarveyC]

That's right, though I'm wondering if I maybe should think some just to increase size and speed up ripening.

[PA Figs]

Kelby I had one that I think was a breba from it last year. The shape and color of it was what made me think it wasn't EBT, but I should get some better samples this year since the tree exploded with growth in the fall.

[Rafaelissimmo]

Nick

Don't see why you would remove breba in a greenhouse, the early start means you will not be draining the strength of the plant in a short growing season. Also, even if you are showing some breba now, we all know some will inevitably drop, like Preto, which to my knowledge, has never kept a breba to full ripeness. Leave 'em on!

[drphil69]

LOL. Yesterday we had snow. Today its in the 50s and all the snow is gone. I up potted/ root pruned 3 figs and trimmed all my shrubbery. All of my trees are still dormant, but I did have a couple of brebas on cuttings (edit: indoors) which I quickly cut off.

[Chrisk]

Hey Yall.
Brebas on
Peters Honey
Black Jack
Unk Folly beach green
Unk Folly beach Black
Black mission
LSU Purple( although I think it will drop them)

[COGardener]

I am super bummed! !! I was shuffling the trees out of the garage for the day. ... I knocked off my one and only breba.....

[PA Figs]

Don't be too upset, very few brebas are any good, especially compared to main crop.

[Pino]

After a long winter without fresh figs brebas are really appreciated by me.
I have had some surprisingly nice tasting brebas.
Most of the in-ground ones seem to fall off on their own.

[Dale_M]

Troiano Calabrese, Longue d'Aout, Abruzzese all in pots, all with brebas. I think Chiapetta, too.

[Chrisk]

Forgot to mention Brunswick. They are both loaded with brebas although still dormant!
Darn it Scott. Sorry about your loss! I hope you get an awesome main crop!
Pino,I noticed the same on my inground trees. Somehow they shed the Breba but produce a bumper main crop!
Dale,some cool varieties there. I hope they get to rippen all those Breba figs so that you can post the pics for us!

[PA Figs]

Do they shed, or does something get them? I noticed every one of my brebas dropped last year, but never saw any on the ground.

[Chrisk]

On what variety Johnny? Some varieties very seldom ,if ever, produce or ripen Breba figs! My LSU Purple always comes out of dormancy starting with Breba figs and then buds but always sheds (drops) them when they are still tiny. Never ever ever drops any of the first or second main crop figs although some of the second main crop are too late and do not ripen!

[PA Figs]

Last year I remember my conadria and negronne brebas all went missing. I don't remember other varieties...

[cis4elk]

Not that they will all stay on, but this is what I have noticed so far and most my trees are still in the garage just thinking about or barely breaking dormancy.
Union Berry Unk. , Petite Negra(RT), Lattarola, Battaglia, Atreano, RdB. I'm sure there are more, but this is just what I have noticed. I have other trees that I remove breaba from every year which haven't really started to wake up yet.

[Chrisk]

Nice varieties Calvin. I hope you get to pick each and every one of them! It is a horrible feeling to see a little fig sag ,droop and fall!

[Darkman]

LSU Gold
Vista
maybe Celeste

[Chrisk]

Darkman. My inground celeste are full of Breba embrios also this year. Curious to see if any of them ripen. The first year I planted them (2011) I got a couple of very nice tasting brebas and nothing after that. Just a huge main crop. Maybe weather ( chill ours?) have something to do with the Breba crop after all. We accumulated quite a few this winter and without the extreme cold of the last one that froze everything to the ground! Also the trees are budding way earlier than last spring! Only time will tell.
Johnny ,sorry but my Negronne is way too young and I do not have a Conadria so I cant give an advice! I know VDB does produce a good Breba crop and is almost identical to the Negronne! I hope you get to taste them this season!