Is this a breba or is the world upside-down?

Kid Fig

Kid Fig

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Alright - I was outside tending to my trees now that they are waking up and I noticed on my potted Air Layer plant that it has breba BUT the breba at the very top has a leaf sprouting next to it?

I removed the AL in November and has been potted and outdoors ever since.

Is this something you all are familiar with?20250303_163058.jpg20250303_163018.jpg
 
GoodFriendMike said:
New growth is green this season. That wood if I am right was dormant wood from last season. That is now waking up.
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Is this a trait of multi-crop figs?

As in if it has double bumps on hardwood, one bump will always come out as a breba (in this case) and the other will be new (green) growth?
 
Kid Fig said:
Is this a trait of multi-crop figs?

As in if it has double bumps on hardwood, one bump will always come out as a breba (in this case) and the other will be new (green) growth?
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If I am understanding right yes. I have had breba and a new branch push out next to each other.
 
GoodFriendMike said:
If I am understanding right yes. I have had breba and a new branch push out next to each other.
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TorontoJoe said:
yeah..... it's last years wood so I'd say breba... but anything that ripens off the new branch would be mains... If I'm understanding corrently anyways...
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ktrain said:
I Concur, breba, old wood...still a num num. lol
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LaFigGwr18 said:
Yes, like everyone else has said. It's a breba
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Thanks guys!
 
MFJFIGS said:
That is Breba.
Some of my trees came out of dormancy. Zaffiro, Atreano, Florea, Hollier and a few others formed breba figs and pushed new growth right next to them.
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How's Florea been for you - heard its one of the good (quality) breba producers.
 
I have something similar on my I-258, it looks like this:
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It's not growing directly off of old wood like typical brebas do. I thought it was a main crop fig initially, but later realized it was a breba as main crop figs didn't begin to show for another 4 weeks.

I've also seen brebas grow on new wood on 1st year trees if I root them early enough. It's very common it seems.
 
Figgin' A said:
I have something similar on my I-258, it looks like this:
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It's not growing directly off of old wood like typical brebas do. I thought it was a main crop fig initially, but later realized it was a breba as main crop figs didn't begin to show for another 4 weeks.

I've also seen brebas grow on new wood on 1st year trees if I root them early enough. It's very common it seems.
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Wow! That's a lot going on out of that one node!
 
TorontoJoe said:
Wow! That's a lot going on out of that one node!
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I know. It looks like the tree got confused. I pruned it very hard this time as the scaffolds were too long (14-16" or so), to 2yo wood. It took a very long time to wake up this season and now I have one bud that sprouted 4 branches and a breba, and several buds that still haven't woken up. I think they may be toast.

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Figgin' A said:
I know. It looks like the tree got confused. I pruned it very hard this time as the scaffolds were too long (14-16" or so), to 2yo wood. It took a very long time to wake up this season and now I have one bud that sprouted 4 branches and a breba, and several buds that still haven't woken up. I think they may be toast.

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Something I think I may start as a new topic... I'd like to discuss....as we prune trees back to older and bigger wood that takes longer to sprout new branches... how to manage the pruning to continue earlier branching. I had to prune my in ground trees to very old wood this year.... I'm concerned they wont put out new growth until it's too late to produce ripe figs.
 
TorontoJoe said:
Something I think I may start as a new topic... I'd like to discuss....as we prune trees back to older and bigger wood that takes longer to sprout new branches... how to manage the pruning to continue earlier branching. I had to prune my in ground trees to very old wood this year.... I'm concerned they wont put out new growth until it's too late to produce ripe figs.
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I am testing several pruning strategies this season - no pruning, (last season) late summer pruning, hard pruning to older (>1y) wood, and pruning off last season's wood to 1-2 buds. Unpruned definitely wake up and set fruit the earliest, but pruned to last season's 1-2 buds woke up and set fruit almost as quickly; I noticed a 1-2 day lag in bud break and 1-2 days in fruit set. I-258, which was pruned to older wood, lagged by 8 days in bud break and 2-3 weeks in fruit set. But I-258 broke bud 7 days later than other varieties last year too, but fruit set lagged by only a week - all that on 1 yo wood though. So, definitely, the older the wood, the less I-258 likes it. This could very a lot depending on a variety, I wouldn't know.

The thing that I learned for myself is that I want to see many shorter fruiting branches sprouting simultaneously vs fewer branches growing very long and that's how I will be pruning most of my trees. That will ensure much more fruit set early and hence ripen early.
 
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