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The name San Pietro is associated with at least 2 varieties of figs (not surprising, St Peter is popular in Italy). There is a green San Pietro that is similar to Dalmatie or Stella. I am writing about the purple San Pietro that is sold by Joe Morle of Italian Fig Trees. I received a cutting directly from another grower's tree during a visit in the fall of 2013. I labled it immediately, and received only 2 other cuttings from him at the time (Carini, which died in the rooting process and does not look like this, and Black Triana, which also looks different). I got the first fig last fall, late in the season, but the interior did not appear right. It had an amber colored interior instead of red. I posted pictures of it last season on F4F:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox....post1284421158
The discussion at the time indicated that the fig should have had a red interior, like the fig pics posted later in that thread by the person who gave me the cutting.
There are only a few other F4F posts with info about San Pietro (JM):
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox....post1268927956
And a list of Italian figs that includes a purple San Pietro, which seems similar to the one sold by Joe Morle of Italian Fig Trees:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox....post1277460118
And there is some discussion in an above post about California Brown Turkey being the San Pietro(JM) which seems erroneous, CBT is also called San Piero (spelled differently).
A link to Italian Fig Trees, the source of my friend's plant: http://www.figtrees.net/ No interior fig pics on the website. My leaves look similar to the ones on the plant photo but most leaf lobes not quite as deeply cut as those on the photo with the leaves and figs.
This year, I was impressed by the beauty of the developing figs of this plant.
I know other figs will develop similar striped colors as developing but this is the first for me.
The exterior of the ripe figs is a dark red/purple color. The first 3 figs of this plant this season have also had the lighter color interior, like last year.
On the following 2 photos only the two figs on the right are San Pietro.
Sorry for the quality of the pics, working on my iPhone photography skillz.
The figs are very sweet, but not quite the complex flavor like the several Mt Etna types, Malta Black, VdB or Red Sicilian(MN) that I have grown this year, but more flavor than the light exterior and light interior figs like Lattarulla and Atreano.
So, why is this fig's interior light color? I have gone over the whole list of other cuttings I started later that year, and found no others that should have looked like this (there were a couple of unknowns, however). I have tried to be extremely careful with cutting labeling, pot labeling, and record keeping, and I feel sure that I did not mix this up with another cutting or plant (anything is possible though). Not sure what to think of this, the difference should not be environmental, the person I got it from lives less than an hour's drive away in the same zone. Could this be some kind of mutation? Immature plant? Mixed up grower?
Input welcome!
Thanks for looking.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox....post1284421158
The discussion at the time indicated that the fig should have had a red interior, like the fig pics posted later in that thread by the person who gave me the cutting.
There are only a few other F4F posts with info about San Pietro (JM):
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox....post1268927956
And a list of Italian figs that includes a purple San Pietro, which seems similar to the one sold by Joe Morle of Italian Fig Trees:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox....post1277460118
And there is some discussion in an above post about California Brown Turkey being the San Pietro(JM) which seems erroneous, CBT is also called San Piero (spelled differently).
A link to Italian Fig Trees, the source of my friend's plant: http://www.figtrees.net/ No interior fig pics on the website. My leaves look similar to the ones on the plant photo but most leaf lobes not quite as deeply cut as those on the photo with the leaves and figs.
This year, I was impressed by the beauty of the developing figs of this plant.
I know other figs will develop similar striped colors as developing but this is the first for me.
The exterior of the ripe figs is a dark red/purple color. The first 3 figs of this plant this season have also had the lighter color interior, like last year.
On the following 2 photos only the two figs on the right are San Pietro.
Sorry for the quality of the pics, working on my iPhone photography skillz.
The figs are very sweet, but not quite the complex flavor like the several Mt Etna types, Malta Black, VdB or Red Sicilian(MN) that I have grown this year, but more flavor than the light exterior and light interior figs like Lattarulla and Atreano.
So, why is this fig's interior light color? I have gone over the whole list of other cuttings I started later that year, and found no others that should have looked like this (there were a couple of unknowns, however). I have tried to be extremely careful with cutting labeling, pot labeling, and record keeping, and I feel sure that I did not mix this up with another cutting or plant (anything is possible though). Not sure what to think of this, the difference should not be environmental, the person I got it from lives less than an hour's drive away in the same zone. Could this be some kind of mutation? Immature plant? Mixed up grower?
Input welcome!
Thanks for looking.
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