Breba fig crop only cultivars?

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Hi guys,

I would like to know if there are any cultivars that produce mainly breba figs, but none or very few of the main crop. There is a panflet in Portugal that states that some cv’s such as “Lampa Preta” only has a breba crop. This seems strange to me… Can someone back up this info?

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San Pedro types need pollination to ripen a main crop, although not exclusively.

http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/files/261881.pdf

I’ve only grown an unknown variety that behaved that way, and it did produce a heavy breba crop and usually dropped almost all of the main crop, the few that did ripen were nothing special. I ended up getting rid of it because brebas are often damaged by cold weather in spring here.

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Thanks for the article! So yes, the cv’s I saw are probably San Pedro types that lack pollination to produce the main crop.

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One of my brown turkey figs makes a huge very sweet breba crop in Spring and a lesser crop of bland figs in Summer. I usually pick the later crop off to save the plant’s energy. D

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Might be an English Brown Turkey. I have a few Lebanese Reds (Bass) that are an English Brown Turkey type and push out a lot of brebas.

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