I must have, but the second picture is my Breba Desert King, I don’t prune. However I did have less than 10-20 figs from the main crop. They were pretty sweet, slightly rounded., and not as big. The brebas tend to get very big.
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The fig in your first photo is round. But second photo shows oval shape. That confuses me.
My Flanders is always oval shape. I need a couple of days.
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Sika is the word for figs in my language (Greek) !
One of my favorite fruit !
Nice sika !! 
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They are both oval shape to me. Maybe the angle of the photos is not good.
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Since you are Greek, have you seen this fig? I call it Emily’s Greek Purple. Some Greek family brought this fig from Greece. This is not a French Bordeaux fig.
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that’s beautiful
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It looks familiar to me!
Amazing texture by the way!!
Regards
George!
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So you do not know which one this is?
I started a half-dozen plants from cuttings as well as three plants purchased from nurseries this year. Right now, they’re all in 5-gallon (trade) pots, and they’re starting to get root-bound. We have maybe 3 weeks of warm weather left and I’d like to get a few of these fruits (Olympia) across the finish line if possible, so I had a two questions:
(1) Should I go ahead and top these and remove all but a few of the fruits?
(2) These will go into my garage over the winter; should I up-pot them from (trade) 5 gallons into 7s or 10s now, or wait until the spring?
I’m looking forward to sharing a few good figs with my folks here, who are yet to be convinced figs are actually good as they’ve only ever had supermarket ones. But if it has to wait until next year, so be it!
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@ riftless
If you want to ripen any figs, then you can remove small figs and allow few largest figs to ripen.
If you want to ripen figs, do not introduce stress with root pruning. It is fine if you just up-pot to bigger pots without touching roots.
For the plants you do not have figs to ripen, if you get storage room, you should up-pot as soon as you can. Then tree has more time to grow. Otherwise, do it when trees come out of storage.
Personally I do not care about fig trees get root bound. Fig trees like to fruit more and early when root bound. You just need to remember to root prune every 2-3 years. Do not allow roots to get old and woody.
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Strongly disagree. Even with the winter protection shenanigans, figs are one of the easiest, most reliable fruits I grow in New Hampshire. Easy enough that there are even some trial operations of commercial fig production in New Hampshire and Maine, using only a simple hoop house and secondary layer of row cover for winter protection. That’s less effort than goes into growing tomatoes.
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I was probably pushing the rhetoric a bit hard. But I’d say we are also judging within different contexts. You’re comparing figs to other fruits and in the northeast, I’m comparing to figs in the northeast to figs in the southeast/anywhere that’s roughly zone 8+. In that sense, I’d go so far as to say you’re not wrong, we’re just talking about two different things.
The basic idea is just that, centerus parabus, it’s easier to grow figs in places the air doesn’t kill them than in places where the air does.
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In my village we call them basilica sika (kings figs) !
That’s all I know
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Realistically, the take home message is that growing almost any fruit in the Northeast is challenging, at least compared to other regions! My standards for what counts as easy growing practices might seem like Herculean efforts to those on the West Coast.
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Yeah, though compared to an irrigated field in California, Spain, or Chile, growing fruits pretty much anywhere else is just unfairly difficult.
I often moan and groan about the heat and pest pressure down here, but at least my winters are much more forgiving than yours, and I actually do get heat and sunlight during the summer. : D
If only earth’s landmass were concentrated in a bunch of tall plateaus on mid-sized islands in the tropics and subtropics, then everyone could enjoy those amazing maritime and highland tropical climates that make even Mediterranean climates look unpleasant.
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The most common words here we hear are:
Vasilika
Marva
Sika
Markopoulo
Or the combination of them. Any meaning of each word?
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This is something we have had some heated discussions. Some people in PNW zone 8 kept saying how hard it is to grow figs in zone 6…
Vasilika sika : kings figs
Mavra means black
Markopoulo is a place in Athens (capital city )
But sika means figs
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