That's fancy talk for I'm starting to get main crop figs. This is sort of a fake out because I don't have ripe fruit pictures yet. I think this thread is one I'll keep adding to.
MBVS, wins the title for the first main crop fig of the year, AND it did it without a head start in the sun room. I'm still sort-of up in the air on it, this is it's 3rd leaf. Last year it didn't produce much(understandably for my zone), the flavor was meh, and it dropped about half or more of it's figs right before ripening. This year it dropped the first 3 main crop figs right before ripening, then it ripened a few that were half figgy and half dry crap. But today, it ripened the first real fig that made me say "Whaaaat?" meaning that sucker was good! Better than the Atreano and RdB's we had today. The rest of the figs ripening now look like they will be good ones.
RdB, I sort-of hate to recycle pictures from thread to thread, although I am guilty. So on a new leaf, I'll take different pics of RdB soon(there are some on the Atreano ripening thread). It's the second variety to ripen main crop this year. This year the quality is much better than last and I can only see it getting better in future years as well. I do have to say though that it didn't bear nearly as heavy as I would have expected for a 4th leaf tree, I hope that changes with age as well.
Here is one of the branches on my 2nd leaf Sal's EL(Thanks Steve and Ryan). I haven't looked at it for a couple days, the other day only one fig had some color. I'm looking forward to tasting it. For comparison, no pics, my Hardy Chicago doesn't have any figs turning yet. So that bodes well for them being different. Also no head start aside from the shuffle.
More to come.
MBVS, wins the title for the first main crop fig of the year, AND it did it without a head start in the sun room. I'm still sort-of up in the air on it, this is it's 3rd leaf. Last year it didn't produce much(understandably for my zone), the flavor was meh, and it dropped about half or more of it's figs right before ripening. This year it dropped the first 3 main crop figs right before ripening, then it ripened a few that were half figgy and half dry crap. But today, it ripened the first real fig that made me say "Whaaaat?" meaning that sucker was good! Better than the Atreano and RdB's we had today. The rest of the figs ripening now look like they will be good ones.
RdB, I sort-of hate to recycle pictures from thread to thread, although I am guilty. So on a new leaf, I'll take different pics of RdB soon(there are some on the Atreano ripening thread). It's the second variety to ripen main crop this year. This year the quality is much better than last and I can only see it getting better in future years as well. I do have to say though that it didn't bear nearly as heavy as I would have expected for a 4th leaf tree, I hope that changes with age as well.
Here is one of the branches on my 2nd leaf Sal's EL(Thanks Steve and Ryan). I haven't looked at it for a couple days, the other day only one fig had some color. I'm looking forward to tasting it. For comparison, no pics, my Hardy Chicago doesn't have any figs turning yet. So that bodes well for them being different. Also no head start aside from the shuffle.
More to come.
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