1st and only fig off this unknown. One to watch closer.

[strudeldog]

1st fig off this unknown back in late Sept. Ones like this still make me take chances on a few unknowns.

[JohnnyK]

Whoa. That looks great. Congrats.

[BrooklynMatty]

Looks great Phil. How did it taste?

[strudeldog]

I liked it, but it was different, I might have left it on tree a little long. It almost had a start of fermentation taste to it. Not sure if that's the case or if that's the taste of the fig itself. It's the one fig from it this year, so will have to wait to evaluate further.

[BrooklynMatty]

Interesting! Def looks like one to follow.

[Rewton]

It looks and sounds like the way my GM172 tasted this year. I know it can last better but almost every fig had kind of an off flavor.

[eboone]

Looks like something to eagerly anticipate for next season

[hammerwood]

Good looking fig. What's the story behind this UNK?

[Rafaelissimmo]

Looks like Preto Phil...

[Fygmalion]

Nice looking fig... nice color, nice size... Ditto on Rick's comment on the story behind the UNK...

[strudeldog]

I am pretty sure this fig is not Preto, even though the fruit resembles it. I don’t have Preto yet, but I grow Black Madeira I don’t believe this is the same fig. This fig came to me under odd circumstance and skepticism. My wife’s cousin lives outside Minneapolis, MN . when we stopped by last summer and we started talking fruits and she started talking about an old Tibetan? woman that lived down the road that grew some very unusual plants and vegetables. I guess the lady is a little different and most the locals view her as some sort of Witch or minimally eccentric. She is very independent keeps to herself and I guess tends to yell and motion to folks that try to approach her property in some language nobody understands and folks think she is hexing or throwing a curse on them. She happens to like my wife’s cousin as I guess she found the ladies cat injured and cared for it and later when the lady saw the cat and gave it back to her. She speaks very limited English, but best I understand she brought this over when she immigrated from Lhasa, Tibet and when I look up the average winter daily temp is below 0F, but she insists the fig flourishes and fruits each year in Tibet, and it has in Minneapolis as well as my wife’s cousin has tasted it. So this fig really shows considerable promise.

OR…..
Maybe a maybe a couple years ago I might thought I knew what a cutting was but called it the name followed by a ? which I have done a couple times over the years in lapse of thinking when I find that cutting that rolled over to the side. I had terrible rooting results that year and failed on a long list including several unknowns.

If you think the 1^st option is correct I am thinking calling it either the Dalai Lama or the [email protected]@@@ fig. On option #2 I was going to try and compare the list of cultivars I attempted to root , but some were unknowns so that would be hard. It does not seem to be the cultivar I thought I was, and the ? on the label indicates I had some uncertainty at time of rooting.

[TylerJ]

Hi Phil... it looks very similar to my Bourjasotte Noire

[hammerwood]

Tibet? really?.This could be the next big fig demand. But we need to punch that story up a bit. Why don't you say it came from atop Mt. Everest when you climbed it last year. Or even better... the lady is a sherpa that brought it down from the north base camp when Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest. Now that's a fig story! Caching $$$$$