Anyone have any guesses on what fig this might be?
Other people told me the figs get dark, but I noticed that some of them were really mushy and getting wrinkled while still bright green and looked not very good inside. It’s 105+ at the location so I don’t know if that might be contributing.
There are some firm ones on the tree, I’m hoping I get to try one at some point.
The pictures won’t load for me fsr. Is the tree by a water source?
Still early for a lot of figs I haven’t even gotten one yet here in a warmer zone.
Darn it I will try to load again, but actually it’s down in the valley in Redding, CA where I work and it’s really hot there and no, it’s not being watered right now although the plant looks fantastic.
Yeah it getting pretty hot there. If it’s good without any water maybe it would be really good growing in a container with lots of care. When it colors up a little you should show another photo of the exterior and the flesh it will be easier to identify.
some male figs produce fruit dry like that, but they are good for grafting.
The pictures I have are of a cutting I took and and we just cut into 3 sticks and put them in to hopefully root but on the mother tree, I will keep an eye out and I am hoping to get a ripe one and when/if I do, I will post a picture of the ripe fruit here.
You mean the entire tree is male?
Yeah I didn’t see the last photo. That’s a caprifig. If it’s persistent then it might be a good one. People use the pollen to hand pollinate in other regions without the wasp to get level up figs or symrna figs that would normally drop without pollination.
Here’s a few other pics of caprifigs. They hold wasp colonies that bring pollen to my figs. You can see them in the figs.
I don’t really understand so does that mean that the tree will never have good edible fruit?
Some of the figs are very solid and some are squishy and feel empty so are the solid ones ones that will ripen for consumption?
Very few caprifigs are edible and the ones that aren’t don’t win any flavor awards, that fig will never produce female figs
Yes what was said above. But you can still use the cutting for rootstock to graft onto.
Don’t people need them for Smyrna figs? Could I use one to pollinate my common figs and make the figs better?
If you live somewhere without the wasp you can hand pollinate but it’s time consuming and doesn’t always result in better figs
Yes lots of people hand pollinate their figs now around the US. I know you have wasps near you but it might be too cold in Shingle Springs not sure. If you have any known caprifigs around now is a good time to check for wasps around them. Our trees are loaded right now in 9b.
And like I mentioned you can root them if it doesn’t work out you’ll have a strong rootstock to graft something good on later.
I e seen that a lot too last year from quite a few people. Think it’s probably more user error although I haven’t tried it. But technique can be a learning curve.
