St. Rita is one of a handful of figs in my collection that very clearly has exhibited fmv symptoms. I have it and a couple others isolated away from the others that are more healthy. It was obtained via a trade as a rooted cutting during the Spring of 2014 and is growing in a 5 gallon SIP. A couple months after I got this plant I noticed the main trunk was struggling with fmv but a faster growing sucker looked much better. So I lopped off the main trunk and let the sucker take over. The plant that you see in the photos is the sucker as it is currently. It’s been a decent grower even with the fmv. This fig (and a few others) also has insect damage as I have described and Rafael has also observed - see links below:
This evening I carefully looked at affected leaves from several different plants with a 40x eye loupe and didn’t see any mites so perhaps it is some other insect. One thing I did observe is that adding a couple different fertilizers (miracle gro and espoma iron tone) helped a lot as the new leaves have much milder symptoms (less splotches and better looking leaves). But I think it is more than just a nutrient deficiency.
Anyway, with that aside the plant has about 5 breba on it. St. Rita (5), Violette de Bordeaux (2) , Adriatic JH (2), Lebanese Red (1) and Bari (1) were the only plants to hold some brebas for me this year. The flavor of this particular breba was mild (mild sugar, mild berry) with just a bit of seed crunch. The texture was gel-like. It was a very pleasant fig overall. I am expecting that the main crop will be much better.
This evening I carefully looked at affected leaves from several different plants with a 40x eye loupe and didn’t see any mites so perhaps it is some other insect. One thing I did observe is that adding a couple different fertilizers (miracle gro and espoma iron tone) helped a lot as the new leaves have much milder symptoms (less splotches and better looking leaves). But I think it is more than just a nutrient deficiency.
Anyway, with that aside the plant has about 5 breba on it. St. Rita (5), Violette de Bordeaux (2) , Adriatic JH (2), Lebanese Red (1) and Bari (1) were the only plants to hold some brebas for me this year. The flavor of this particular breba was mild (mild sugar, mild berry) with just a bit of seed crunch. The texture was gel-like. It was a very pleasant fig overall. I am expecting that the main crop will be much better.
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