I apologize in advance for not having a picture of the entire fig tree…This is a mature fig I bought in March this year. Mature enough it is producing fruit now. I bought it without any identification on the tree and am wondering if this is enough to possibly identify the type of fig it is? I hear it may be difficult to identify but I thought I would ask. Thanks in advance for any help…NEWBIE…
I tried to post more than one pictures but am probably restricted right now since i am a NEWBIE…Here is another. THNX
Also to any moderators. i apologize if i may be posting in the wrong category. If so please let me know and I’ll be glad to fix it to how ever it should be.
Hi Jeff, welcome to the forum! Questions like this are put in the general fruit growing category, I will move it there.
I am not a fig expert but it looks like the Adriatic school of fig. There are many varieties that are similar to Adriatic.
Thanks Scott. I’ll keep that in mind. I am trying to figure out how to put my location on the map now! LOL
I know in my area of Atlanta, GA most of the local nurseries sell the same kinds of fig trees and I’ve been everywhere around town and I would say I’ve probably only seen about 10 different kinds of fig trees in the last 2 years. So you might be able to rule it down this way and then once the fruit ripens that will narrow it down even more.
Did you buy it from Home Depot or Lowes? or a local nursery?
Pretty much impossible to tell without a ripe fruit. If purchased retail it’s likely to be Brown Turkey, Celeste, or Italian Honey. A guess can be made from leaf shape (my guess is Celeste), but that’s all it is, a guess.
I got it at a local nursery. They actually do mostly commercial big accounts if that makes any difference. Ill make sure your post the ripe fruit. Thnx
So… my previously unidentified fig tree has produced! Can anyone venture a guess at what it is?`
I let them fall off of the tree so they are completely ripe. Not overly sweet but are very nice sweetness and almost caramel tone on the pallet. Delicious. I’m going to like these.`
Possibly Celeste
To me they look way too dark to be Celeste, and it seems too early for there to be ripe Celeste fruit unless breba figs. Also as far as I know Celeste only falls off the tree on their own when they abort not ripe yet.
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What is Breba? I guess i didn’t REALLY just let them fall off the tree. I was making sure they were going to be completely ripe so I left them and was going to pick them Sunday. Saturday we got a pretty hard rain and I went out after the rain and they were on the ground. I just figured they were so good and ripe they fell off so easy…
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The heavy rain may have dropped them, they look as ripe as a fig can get. The breba crop is the first crop of the year, breba crop of Celeste are usually low in production, yet some strains of Celeste are said to have high production both crops, the breba crop figs produce underneath the leaf stem, and the main crop (the second crop) grows above the leaf stem.
This would be breba then. It’s the first crop ever on this tree and they are underneath the stem. This is why I love this sight. I had no idea they have different crops or different places they produce from. Thank you. I learn something on here every day! There are about 40-50 more unripe figs on the tree so maybe next crop will be big? And yes they were as ripe as can be and absolutely double delicous 
Most fig varieties tend to have main crops at least as many figs as the breba crop. I am still not convinced that this is a Celeste fig since the figs are so dark on the outside. Also many varieties of figs, the figs will get bigger as tree ages, within 9 years they fruit should be true, as far as a I know Celeste does not do that. There are many varieties with figs that size that are dark like that. A lot of nurseries sell figs as Celeste that are not, so even if they had said that they are Celeste does not mean that they are.
I don’t understand that term as related to breba. The breba grow on last yrs wood. Those figs won’t have a leaf petiole next to the fig. Last yrs wood doesn’t produce leaves. It produces new shoots that have leaves.
Main crop grows on current seasons wood. That wood has leaves and the figs form right next to the base of the leaf petiole .
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I don’t understand that term as related to breba. The breba grow on last yrs wood. Those figs won’t have a leaf petiole next to the fig. Last yrs wood doesn’t produce leaves. It produces new shoots that have leaves.
Main crop grows on current seasons wood. That wood has leaves and the figs form right next to the base of the leaf petiole .
[/quote]Exactly that is why the leaves are above the breba, the breba figs they are totally separate growth from every things else, a breba crop does not have it’s own leaves or vegetation. All vegetation that grows on old wood is new wood, just like new wood can grow from new wood. The only thing that can grow from old wood is new things like figs growing directly out of old wood (breba figs), or figs that come out with the new wood attached to the new vegetation (Main crop figs), yet new vegetation can look brownish/grayish too especially the later fruiting varieties in cooler climates. Also sometimes the leaves call fall off new vegetation and the main crop figs stay on. Sometimes main crop figs can stay on until spring next year. The figs are dried rock hard then in our climate yet it does happen.