Nero600m
It seems the birds know when it’s ready…
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Nice one!
Lol, they always do, I start to see some bird marks on my stone fruits.
Figs (Ficus sp.) are partially carnivorous. When wingless male wasps die in a syconium, the enzyme ficin dissolves their protein into a nutrient for the plant.
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My supposedly brown turkey figs seem much bigger, though I’m told they’re may possibly be the CA brown turkey variety. The picture is from the breba crop harvest last August.
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your figs too big … with apologies to Fats Waller.
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Nice figs! The size will be relative to the number of figs on the fruiting branch and size and health of the tree. When i was growing Brown Turkey i found it to be somewhat of a tip bearer and never guilty of over producing.
In my growing conditions the breba crop was always excellent eating.
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Come to France and Italy for great tasting figs!
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Indeed. I rooted nine figs this Spring but wouldn’t you know it, the Campaniere I wanted most to succeed, didn’t make it. Lots of buzz about it on this side of the pond.
Looks like you need some organza bags on your figs. 
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Birds also attack figs to get a drink of the juice, and so a bird bath helps to prevent birds from attacking figs as well.
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So i purchased this fig and was told it was hardy Chicago. It does not appear to be.
Pictured is an extra cutting in a random pot but the main plant has been in the ground for two years with no sign of fruiting. Do these leaves give any indication as to what variety it might be?
Any help appreciated.
Where did you buy it? Helps to know what else the seller grows, if possible.
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Morphology can tell you what a specimen is not. It cannot accurately determine identity. I agree the plant in your photo is not Chicago Hardy.
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If I were a betting man I’d say rdb or vdb. Rdb and vdb are also common varieties, but like Richard said, it’s not really possible to say what variety it is from the leaves alone
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Those long skinny fingers on the lower leaves make me think Tena. The lack of fruit is sometimes considered a trait of tissue culture, but not all agree. That’s only relevant because Tena is rather infamous in the fig tissue culture world. For many years, if you bought a tissue cultured white marseilles, you actually got a Tena. In more recent times, black Madeira was sent off to have FMV removed and then get propagated by tissue culture. By some magic, all of the fmv-free black madeiras turned out to also be Tena.
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