This is the biggest fig I grow.
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You hit a home run on that harvest. They look great.
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I posted pictures of some Brunswick on a scale. I’ll have to look again but maybe 150 grams, over 5oz. That would be about 6 fruit for 2 pounds.
What’s your opinion on the flavor, does it taste like anything to you, does the skin have a scent? Is the skin rough or tough, and how long has it been producing for you?
Is that a Breba fig or main crop fig?
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We’re the figs ripe? I bought some from Fresh Market and threw them in the trash absolutely no sweetness at all.
Flavor is good, but nothing special. Just generic “figgy” flavored. But it did ripen very evenly for such a large fig.
The skin wasn’t at all rough or tough. It’s been producing for me for four years now.
Main crop.
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I have a fig cultivar that it’s figs sometimes looks a lot the figs you showed for the cultivar Impellizzeri, yet it’s certainly not the same fig I have based upon your description, the fig in that photo only the breba get that big on the cultivar I have, actually the breba on the one I have probably gets a little bigger than that. The cultivar I have is not ‘Just generic figgy flavored’ The one I have has a great scent to the skin as well. I have not tried the figs of the one I have grown outside of California, California is where I rescued it from, I was told that grown in the State of Georgia it’s as good as if it were fig wasp pollinated yet it was not.
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The blacks were pretty good. The greens I tried earlier in thee week were trash. These are the first good figs I had bought.
Another poster claimed they were good, better than what they could grow, in another thread. Why is why I tried to make a point of checking the local Trader Joe’s for a while to get some.
Beautiful. How did it taste? How do you winter it?
No in a 35 gal pot
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I take it you bring inside in winter and give it a head start in spring then. 35 gallon pot is heavy though must use tractor to move it.
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Best i remember this one was 155 g.
It tasted better than he expected it to.
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No head start, it comes out of cellar in late April. I partially bareroot the figs I grow in 25+ gal pots for storage since no tractor
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Seem like that guy must have small hands, or the fig is low density to only be 155g at that size.
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Mediterranean climate + old tree + caprification make figs grow huge.
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Are these large figs mentioned in this thread common figs or figs that require the appropriate variety associated wasp for pollination?
The large rather flat one (Genovese) mentioned above is said to be developers in Canada… So I can assume it is a common fig?
I’m saying ‘common’ as that is the term I’ve read that refers to figs that don’t require wasp pollination.
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the 160 gram presumed Brunswick is a breba and not pollinated.
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last time I was in socal at a friend’s, these were on the tree. no idea what kind; the tree was very large and old, from before she bought the place. I did manage to get one saved cutting to root and they are just a bit smaller in the pot I’ve got it in.
the biggest ones in the tree were softball sized (but covered in beetles, so I’m not holding any here) they were red inside, juicy and jammy, and pale green outside when fully ripe. the tree was taller than her two story house
ripe one from the cutting, a bit smaller than the size of what I’m holding in that photo
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