Socorro Black Breba from yesterday’s picture. It was very good 
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How beautiful
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Violette de Bordeaux (VDB) Breba ( harvested 07-07-21 ). Once this fig was the standard of all figs. Very good productive good size reliable fig. Highly recommended for everyone.
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It looks beautiful. Sadly, mine died, I think. I bought it from a place in New Jersey, and when it came along with another thing, I think they were both boiled and steamed by the US post office truck.
The second one I lost all its leaves, after being boiled, I think by the post office. But it still is showing some signs of life
My VdB was quite spreading and so unproductive. After 5 years of hardly set any fig, I ditched the mother tree and kept a few cuttings. Hope the children will behave better.
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Did I send you any Nero 600M sticks? That one is similar to VdB and produces a lot of breba along with main crop. Mine are ripening now. Here’s my 7 year old tree I kept in a pot.
Notice my in ground Dalmatie in the background covered in fruit. It will likely ripen in August this year.
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Can’t say I’ll have a harvest this year, but my fig that was really angry about being moved to full sun in late June is calming down and looking mildly content.
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Andrew,
I don’t believe so. As you know, it was a disaster year for je re. potting up cuttings 
. There are only two sticks of the same variety that have survived.
Please put this plant in a shade to have any chance of coming back. Watch out watering does not need much with no leaves.
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If its true VDB you should have lot of good size figs. Too much growth or too big pot or less or too much fertilizer, not enough sunlight etc.
Not to discourage you but most likely no figs this year. In winter do good pruning and you will have lots of figs next year. Which variety is it ?
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Naeem,
Unless Logee sold me a mislabeled fig variety, I am pretty sure mine was VdB. I’ve treated all my potted figs pretty much the same way, same mix, same fertilizer, same location, etc.
Somehow, that VdB of mine was unproductive. During those 5 years, my other varieties including newer ones I acquired have been much more productive esp. Ronde de Bordeaux and Improved Celeste.
I’m pretty sure they are an unknown named variety, that came from Pittsburgh originally and have been growing in Ellicot City for several years before moving a few miles south to my yard. I got them because someone wanted more room for fancy stuff.
And I was already expected none. There were a few little fruit that had set on one of the three that we transplanted, but last I checked, I didn’t see any. I was debating pulling them off to focus energy this year anyway.
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I noticed specially mine is a bad strain.
Did it produced any fig and by chance do you have a picture of ripe fig ?
It did but say 3-4 figs instead of a lot more like other varieties. The figs I had looked like VdB. I did not keep all my fig pics, unfortunately.
I chalked it up a a dud. The cuttings I rooted last fall have grown well.
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BB-10 Breba once this was a very hyped up fig nothing special just an average fig. I let it ripened as long as I can and now birds starting to peck.
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