Figs are ripening now!
Peters honey is the sweetest variety
Smith tastes like strawberry jam.
Unfortunately rats are getting my VdB which is the most prolific variety. Traps have now been set.
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It’s because the branches were headed back after the dormant buds had already begun preparing to develop flowers for the following year. The tree still had energy it wanted to put into current season’s growth when the branches were cut so it had no choice but to break dormancy on buds that were intended to remain dormant till next year.
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Good point, only those branches headed in late August are blooming.
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Are you doing anything to get extra heat for your Peter’s Honey?
My first Ronde de Bordeaux is about ripe and no Violet de Bordeaux, LSU Champagne, or LSU Tiger yet this year. Last year they’d already ripened. Seems you are generally ahead of me with stuff.
Brunswick has ripened several main crop but enough of them are moldy that its not worth messing with them unless there is a stretch of dry weather.
My peters honey is actually in part shade and still ripening.
Biggest producer is Smith. I get atleast 3-4 each day. And it is also the best tasting.
RDB is almost done. But still getting some.
VdB is starting to come. Peak season might be a week away.
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The unknown-variety “Parise’s Purple” being distributed by a comrade in Portland has its first fig changing color and getting soft:
That’s the one where his grandfather brought it from Italy and his family has been growing it in New Jersey since then, but it hadn’t been tested in the PNW until he started distributing rooted cuttings a couple years ago. This is also my first fig to ripen since I started rooting cuttings a couple years ago! Mostly the rest are still sleeping or creeping.
Here’s the only fig on Takoma Violet, which is my only other variety with any chance of ripening this year (there are also a few tiny ones on RdB and Niagara Black but they are far too small to ripen):
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The parish purple seems to be a mt Etna type.
Vdb finally producing in good quantity. Rats are leaving me a few.
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We’re going to have a burn pile probably this weekend and I was contemplating cutting the Brunswick and throwing in on. Then today its the only one with ripe figs. I tried one that was split while not as soft as I’d usually go for, and it was pretty good.
So maybe I am back to going for a low effort transplant while dormant.
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Did you guys see massive citrus trees at costco? I’m seeing them at my local Costco and obviously lots of people buying them. Mostly Improved Meyer but there were others.
Most of these trees will be dead by the end of winter.
My Lynwood Costco has them. They were 169$ a tree. Big like 4.5-5’ citrus trees. Seemed odd to me to sell them in the fall. They were all meyers trees from the ones I saw.
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I saw that a neighbor had planted out a couple of non-hardy Citrus trees in their yard this year. I bet they are just banking on getting people to buy them out of ignorance. Many people will be taken advantage of because they are trusting enough to assume that since they are sold here, they can be planted here.
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Tumwater Costco has no Citrus 
If you really want a citrus tree, go to Kirkland Costco.
Do you remember if they have blood oranges?
169 is high…
I don’t remember. Citrus trees are not my thing.
Ahh. I have countless Citrus trees 
you probably don’t care or know cause i don’t even know… but I’m looking specifically for the type that KingRivers call “Raspberry Oranges”.
So I’m probably going to get a Tarocco or a few every type that internet says is the sweetest blood orange type. Either from Restoring Eden or four winds but i like Costco’s return policy too
Why not just get budwood from CCPP instead? Would probably be a lot cheaper… though I have no idea what many of these varieties even are (I assume Tarocco #7 is the one you mean?):
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I am very impatient 
