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BTW, that same Home Depot (N Oceanside #1018) also offers bareroot high-chill cherries in the winter!
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I like Desert King, I don’t know if I have the wasp or not, but they are very reliable here, I don’t do a thing. I don’t even fertilize it, they can grow very big otherwise. Taste is very subjective. I tend to ignore Breba here.
The subjectivity of taste isn’t something many people often ponder. There’s no way for a person to convey to another exactly what they see, feel, taste, etc… The way we interpret color is the classic example. However, there are commonalities everybody parrots to each other when they eat certain foods. Sweet and delectable is what I hear people most often say when they try one of the main crop figs from a desert king. Is that really such a stretch? There are so many excellent figs, and it really is hard to find a bad one. So long as it’s allowed to ripen fully in the summer sun. I don’t know why people would doubt that. Seems quite logical that at peak ripeness nearly all figs are outstanding. Can we now extend the old saying about sex and pizza to include figs? Haha… I think of breba as a specialized gift from Mother Nature, allowing people to enjoy the splendid experience of eating local tree ripened figs in places where they otherwise wouldn’t be able to. While they come on a little later up north, the interior valleys of NorCal and Oregon are plenty hot enough with long enough a growing season to crank out some killer main crop figs.
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The Breba figs are sweet and figgy, but with a distinctive watermelon flavor. Not bad at all.
Now I’m wondering if your plant is Desert King.
Dreaming of summer already.
Desert king is one of the more distinctive looking fruits.