What is your earliest fruiting fig? Also what is your best tasting early variety?

@Figgin' A makes a good point about cultivation practices over nature. If you have plans to give plants headstart, you can pretty much grow any varieties even under the less ideal climate. So, early ripening is less of a condition for selection depending on the effort you are willing to give it a headstart.

In my case, I didn't prune the trees and kept them in the hot, dark garage for 2 extra weeks (not by design). They ended up ripening much earlier than expected. I really didn't put any extra effort to ripen a variety like BM that is considered to be late by many.

I have a long enough season so even many of my early mistakes can be fixed in time. e.g. I got around to prune some of the trees later, which stimulated more growth and new fruits. And my season is long enough to ripen those late sprouted fruits.
 
grasshopper said:
Some people say Florea is good for only being early. It is a decent variety(not the wow type) if ripen all the way.

Pastiliere is a bit of a toss. It is tasty, but on the small side and then it is water sensitive in a way that it would drop fruit especially in a young tree. Many people mistaken that as a sign of Smyrna. It has been established as a Common for many years. It needs consistent watering to avoid fruit dropping. In cooler climate, the watering issue is likely to be less of a problem than in hot, dry climate.

Both are cold hardy, candidates for in ground cultivation once established.
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I’ve never considered Pastiliere a small fig. They range from 40g to 60g for me. I’d call that medium sized?
 
oat said:
I think it just doesn’t like your hot climate. Pastiliere is not a small fig. It’s more medium. I think it’s average 50 grams. Some can get larger. I think in the right climate it’s top tier.
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I just posted the same thing before I got this far down. Totally agree! It’s in my top 10!
 
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