This is my best light fig currently, because it has great taste, great size, and good productivity over an unusually extended period of time.
It's a workhorse fig, not always the prettiest. It's far and away the closest light equivalent that I currently have to Mt Etna: dependable taste, dependable ripening, productive.
Has not bounced back to ripen fruit in ground in a low light area, but now that I'm seeing its worth, I might try it again in better lit ground to see what it can do, especially with some preserved low limbs. That said, am still hoping to ripen in ground Brooklyn White figs this year, though poorly placed, utterly neglected, and totally top-killed. It may be my only non-Mt Etna in-ground fig to ripen this year.
Great thick strawberry pulp flavor, great skin flavor, however the end of the skin can blacken and get leather tough in which case it's best to eat around that section of skin. Pulp is fully protected and jammy.
This cultivar is known to be a good breba producer too and produced some of my best brebas this year, rivaled only by Late Bordeaux brebas.
Ripened first breba July 23, first main crop August 25. Looks like it will ripen till frost.
It's a workhorse fig, not always the prettiest. It's far and away the closest light equivalent that I currently have to Mt Etna: dependable taste, dependable ripening, productive.
Has not bounced back to ripen fruit in ground in a low light area, but now that I'm seeing its worth, I might try it again in better lit ground to see what it can do, especially with some preserved low limbs. That said, am still hoping to ripen in ground Brooklyn White figs this year, though poorly placed, utterly neglected, and totally top-killed. It may be my only non-Mt Etna in-ground fig to ripen this year.
Great thick strawberry pulp flavor, great skin flavor, however the end of the skin can blacken and get leather tough in which case it's best to eat around that section of skin. Pulp is fully protected and jammy.
This cultivar is known to be a good breba producer too and produced some of my best brebas this year, rivaled only by Late Bordeaux brebas.
Ripened first breba July 23, first main crop August 25. Looks like it will ripen till frost.
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