It’s not a joke. There is big drama over them on fog dedicated forums.
When you understand that cuttings of hyped new varieties can sell for hundreds and hundreds of dollars it might make more sense why honest (or potentially dishonest) evaluations of varieties can get some (ie, the sellers of the hyped varieties) heated
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A better question would be what has the fig community not argued about over the years? Sometimes even threats have been thrown around.
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I don’t think this forum is for me. I take a simple pleasure in growing things. I don’t like this level of animus.
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You can pretend that the truth is animus all you want, that will not change the truth.
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just ignore it, this forum has less of it than the fig places do. i think every hobby has a drama lol
I’ve seen violence threatened in knitting, canning, hiking groups. people are strange
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That person was acting like the fig community has no fighting, and as if us acting like it does was animus. This person clearly does not have much experience with the internet, arguing breaks out all over the internet, this forum has way less of it than just about anywhere else on the internet, and we’d like to keep it that way. If this person thinks this forum is animus, well that person could not find a better place.
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yep I’ve seen an read some wild things in fig places, this site has the least of that stuff!
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There used to be a fig nursery in New Jersey, it was a great reputable nursery that made sure that the sources of their fig trees were reliable, and I have no idea what happened yet the fig community destroyed this nursery’s reputation accusing them of selling fig varieties that were not what they claimed they were. They went out of business because of this.
I myself have been accused of not having the real thing, even though the person who introduced the variety of fig was my source, and the figs on my tree always looked like the figs that other people who grew the variety had on their trees back when I got it. Even Harvey has been accused of not having the real thing. Back to the variety that I was told was not the real thing. Last year some of the figs on the tree looked very different on that same tree than I have always gotten, and those different figs matched what the people who falsely accused me of having the wrong variety claimed the figs were supposed to look like. I am guessing different climates different looking figs.
I could go on and on about the fighting I have seen in the fig community, which I have been a part of since 2010.
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First figs of the season! Desert king. Not sure if this is Breba or main crop. Absolutely delicious- sweet, strong fig flavor, good size.
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The larger fig is a breba, the smaller one is a main crop
Got it, thanks. That breba was a nice early treat. The inside was less red than I remember for Desert king from last year.
Each year a person’s climate is at least a little different than the last, a little difference can mean a lighter or darker color, or even a very different color all together. For my location how much it’s raining, and how cloudy it is, appears to change the color of the figs when ripe. Even in the same growing season, figs on the same tree, and of the same crop can be different in color. And the really long droughts is when the figs taste the best, sometimes even as good as pollinated by the fig wasp. The places that have the fig wasp are typically very dry places during the fig season, so it’s not just the pollination that makes those figs grown in California, and in Europe better, it’s also that the trees are constantly in full sun, in very dry and hot weather during fig ripening season.
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took some pictures today because the greenhouse figs are all out in their places and starting to produce
just about all have figlets on every branch. only ischia is obstinate, with none yet. only small leaves so far.
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Picked up Coll de Dama Gegantina and Socorro Black from Marta’s cutting sale today. My two other Col de Dames are doing really well, so I figured I’d round out the set from what she has. Socorro Black just sounds like a really good fig, so I picked it up.
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