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This is a second year tree that was placed in ground in May 2015. The growth
has been moderate and a dozen or so figs. This is one of my trees that gets
about 5 hours of sun per day.
The taste is quiet bland but on the sweet side. It had very little flavor to describe.
It did weigh in at 1.55 oz. About a 4 on a 1-10.
On 8/18/15 I tasted the last fig of the season for this tree. Unbelievable difference
from the first fig. This fig was quiet sweet but I still can not describe its creamy flavor.
Having said that, I still like what it is enough to rate it a 7+ for now. Below is wash
Herman (VS) said about this fig tree.
"Kathleen Black is a robust specimen ,adapted to cold climates,a fig that is known to have been grown in Washington DC area,for a couple of hundreds years,and large ,Mission like looking trees are known to exist in Washington DC area.
This tree must have been imported by some big shot ,In Wash. DC,and it made it there over the years it adapted to resist cold Winter.
I grew,about 5+,Black Mission kind,like Texas Black Mission,Alex Black Mission,California Black Mission,Malta Black Mission,and a couple of Black Mission that turned out to be mediocre brown figs,and The only one that resist Winter here and ripe fruits in time is Kathleen Black.
There are other black Fig that look like Kathleen Black some of good repute like Noire de Caromb,but I am content with Kathleen black as being the most adapted to the Atlantic coast,and in better climatic conditions will surpass all the others in producing large harvest of wonderful tasty fruits year after year.
My tree now 6 years old has a main trunk of 5 inches diameter ,and it never died down,this trunk is the original it started with."
has been moderate and a dozen or so figs. This is one of my trees that gets
about 5 hours of sun per day.
The taste is quiet bland but on the sweet side. It had very little flavor to describe.
It did weigh in at 1.55 oz. About a 4 on a 1-10.
On 8/18/15 I tasted the last fig of the season for this tree. Unbelievable difference
from the first fig. This fig was quiet sweet but I still can not describe its creamy flavor.
Having said that, I still like what it is enough to rate it a 7+ for now. Below is wash
Herman (VS) said about this fig tree.
"Kathleen Black is a robust specimen ,adapted to cold climates,a fig that is known to have been grown in Washington DC area,for a couple of hundreds years,and large ,Mission like looking trees are known to exist in Washington DC area.
This tree must have been imported by some big shot ,In Wash. DC,and it made it there over the years it adapted to resist cold Winter.
I grew,about 5+,Black Mission kind,like Texas Black Mission,Alex Black Mission,California Black Mission,Malta Black Mission,and a couple of Black Mission that turned out to be mediocre brown figs,and The only one that resist Winter here and ripe fruits in time is Kathleen Black.
There are other black Fig that look like Kathleen Black some of good repute like Noire de Caromb,but I am content with Kathleen black as being the most adapted to the Atlantic coast,and in better climatic conditions will surpass all the others in producing large harvest of wonderful tasty fruits year after year.
My tree now 6 years old has a main trunk of 5 inches diameter ,and it never died down,this trunk is the original it started with."
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