There are 3 possible crops:
Mamme (winter crop), sets in Fall, matures in early April (CA);
Profichi aka Breba (spring crop), matures in June (CA);
Mammoni aka Main (summer crop), maturing in late summer (CA).
Traits for each of the 3 possible crops:
crop productivity
crop quality
crop season
fruit size
fruit shape
fruit eye size
fruit male bloom
fruit skin color
fruit skin striped
fruit pulp color
fruit climate susceptibility
Note 1: “bloom” only applies to male crops.
Note 2: “fruit” has been used in place of syconium to protect the innocent.
Please understand that morphologic traits should never be used to determine what a fig cultivar is, but rather what it is not. For example, a black-skinned red-interior fig is not Kadota.
As of this writing I’m open to suggestions for additional traits.
Previously I extracted trait parameters from two sources: Ira Condit and NCGR Davis.
Condit, in his “Fig characteristics useful in the identification of varieties” (1941) and “Fig varieties: a monograph” (1955) mentions 147 parameters. Note that Condit erroneously pursued cultivar identification by physical traits.
A half century later investigators at NCGR Davis compiled a shorter list of 40 parameters for two purposes: crop evaluation and possible correlation with genetic markers obtained circa 2009. These can be found among the F. carica accession records posted on GRIN.
I have reduced these further to 33 (currently), as itemized in the first post.
Does this include things like crack resistance? If not, I would recommend adding Crack Resistance as it is very relevant to growers in areas with high humidity and/or summer rain.
Yes, that and splitting too. Condit documented these well for the figs in his collection. It also includes frost resistance – an important attribute for the Spring caprifig crop.