Thanks, Ram. Did you ever get a crop? Were they decent? Ross Radi says on his website that you can find cultivars that kind of bridge the Breba - main gap. Have you found this to be true in a Seattle-ish climate? If you wanted a sort of continuous crop of figs from late July/early breba to early or late October here (depending on weather) is that possible?
I am also wondering what other early season productive figs are that work in the pnw. so far I have experienced viollette de bordeux, desert king, peterys honey, and lattarula to be consistent bearers. Would be nice to have an earlier crop than desert king if thre was a good one
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As far as San Antonio goes, I wasnât too impressed with the fruit. But it was a young immature tree.
I now started getting continuous fig production from late July to late October with figs.
Gillette has a late breba. As does i258.
Albo and RDB can often produce main almost at the same time as the later Brebas.
Once your trees grow up and you stay on top of critter control and netting, youâll have all the figs you can eat.
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Looks great! If we have a warm summer, it will probably grow at least 6+ feet this season!
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I have 4 RdBâs from the same source that are in there 5th year (2 in pots, 2 in ground) and Iâve gotten a total of 1 fig off them all combined. My VdB is way earlier which shouldnât be happening I donât think. I must have gotten a dud strain; this is such a good year that if they donât produce this fall Iâm grafting over them.
Thatâs crazy!
Some years I start getting ripe RDB by late august. VdB is very productive but late. Only starts ripening in October here.
For a continuous cropping for in this area its hard to beat Olympian. The Breba is its best crop. We usually get these in early July.
It is setting its main crop figs now and keeping these thinned is critical to getting quality main harvests also i do some summer pruning as the plants are so dense the main crop color suffers somewhat.
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I assume youâre talking about serviceberries. There were only 5 and they were covered in orange fungus. So, no. Sorry.
John S
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They are delicious!
Some figs are inedible late in the season but not VdB.
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Thx. I am growing one in a pot (2nd year), last year I ripened the fruits under a grow light and they were phenomenal compared to Lattarula. I want to replace the in-ground Lattarula with vDB next year.
Lattarula is a simple but reliable fig.
I think something is funny with your Lattarula or growing conditions. Iâve had much more flavorful ones than the ones you generously shared with me - for which I was thankful for the kindness.
Normally I wouldnât have said anything so as not to seem ungracious. But I think youâll like to know as you are evaluating varieties.
I love VdB brebas. Usually the main crop doesnât ripen in time. When it does, there are a lot of fruit flies. Iâve had some quite good ones in October though, I just donât expect it.
Yours probably get more heat and will be more reliable.
Youâre right, they are hit or miss where the some of the brebaâs are tasty and the main crop is watered down which I think is due to lawn getting watered.
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There may be multiple different fig varieties called Lattarula as thereâs a lot of confusion behind that name (or different strains of it). I inherited a big box store Lattarula and it is not amazing taste-wise even compared to other figs grown in town. Itâs not very productive either (about 1.5 brebas per branch) and I would not understand why itâs a recommended fig based on the specimen I have!
(Iâm waiting on two Desert Kings, RdB and Florea to grow up for comparison)
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