I am a bit puzzled about this tree. It‘s the second time that it is bearing fruit, and the second time this happens, that the fruit turn yellow during summer and drop, even though in the beginning everything looks perfect, good overwintering with almost no die-back and lots of fruit set…
Other than the yellow fruit, the tree looks perfectly healthy
I have a slight suspicion this might be a male (capri) fig? Can anyone confirm?
The sexual types of figs include Females, Caprifigs, Persistent (parthenocarpic), and Non-persistent. The latter type will prematurely drop their fruit in absence of fig wasp (B. psenes) activity or specific hormone application.
Your plant could very well be non-persistent, either Female or Caprifig.
I live in an area where fig wasps don‘t exist. I have several other fig trees that bear good fruit, but this one is a wild cutting I got from someone, I don‘t know where it came from. That‘s why I have never seen a caprifig before, so I can‘t quite tell the difference.
I have read that in case of varieties that need pollination (also haven‘t conciously seen those), they drop their fruit when they are quite small, so I had ruled that out, but since I have no experience with those, I don‘t know what ‚small‘ means
This is an error. The size varies by cultivar.
Ok, thanks for clarification!
But you would confidently say from the picture this tree is not a parthenocarpic variety?
It exhibits those symptoms. At present there is no genetic (DNA, RNA) test for parthenocarpy in figs.
Note: There are persistent Caprifigs.