Florea

[Jigfig]

I lucked into a Florea and know nothing except it is a small fig and early. Any thoughts about it? How does it taste?

 

[2Angels]

I love my Florea. It is sweet with a light fruity flavor. It may not be a fancy top-tier fig, but if your goal is to eat a lot of good figs, then Florea is your girl. It is one of the first to start setting figs and it sets a ton of them. The figs ripen fast and they have a short hang time. It keeps ripening figs until frost. So you get figs for a very long time. I have a video on my YT channel if you are interested.

 

[Jigfig]

Aw

I love my Florea. It is sweet with a light fruity flavor. It may not be a fancy top-tier fig, but if your goal is to eat a lot of good figs, then Florea is your girl. It is one of the first to start setting figs and it sets a ton of them. The figs ripen fast and they have a short hang time. It keeps ripening figs until frost. So you get figs for a very long time. I have a video on my YT channel if you are interested.

Right on. I’ll have to check it out!

 

[ktrain]

I totally agree with Angel, everyone needs one...it's usually the one that gets the season going!

 

[Jigfig]

I totally agree with Angel, everyone needs one...it's usually the one that gets the season going!

Sounds right up my alley. Needed an early fig.

 

[rNexus]

I love my Florea. It is sweet with a light fruity flavor. It may not be a fancy top-tier fig, but if your goal is to eat a lot of good figs, then Florea is your girl. It is one of the first to start setting figs and it sets a ton of them. The figs ripen fast and they have a short hang time. It keeps ripening figs until frost. So you get figs for a very long time. I have a video on my YT channel if you are interested.

Florea is a winner

 

[Opiem10]

Sounds right up my alley. Needed an early fig.

Except this year where my Florea was very late to ripen fruit.

 

[superdave336]

Threads like this is why it was added to my wishlist. Don’t we all need more figs in our life?

 

[2Angels]

Except this year where my Florea was very late to ripen fruit.

I'm sorry to hear that. We had a polar vortex event here in January and it was single digits here for 3 nights. All my ingrounds died back to the ground. Florea regrew from the roots and still ripened its first fig here on Aug. 2nd and it is still ripening figs. Our first freeze is forecast for Sunday night here. I sure hope this winter is better, but I'm not holding my breath! I hope next year is better for you as well.

 

[Schoenie]

I received a Florea cutting from Ethan (SmithFit/FruitBrute) early this year and managed to grow a small tree out of it that even had a dozen or so figs that ripened this summer. There might be "better" varieties out there, but I actually quite liked these!

 

[Jigfig]

I’m still new to figs and haven’t tasted many. I still like my brown turkey so not too worried about it not being a premium fig.

 

[rNexus]

Except this year where my Florea was very late to ripen fruit.

Same for me. I think my pots got too hot. There was some seriously strong sun at times this summer.