GxY

TorontoJoe said:
Approximately how much sooner can one expect a pollinated fig to ripen vs one that’s not?
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I saw 2-6 weeks, seems the latest varieties benefited the most. Black cross was one that ripened in early/mid September with pollen but after that nothing else ripened on the tree even by the end of October in storage. I was eating lsu Scott’s black mid August with pollen as well in Iowa without any head start.
 
Bofig said:
I saw 2-6 weeks, seems the latest varieties benefited the most. Black cross was one that ripened in early/mid September with pollen but after that nothing else ripened on the tree even by the end of October in storage. I was eating lsu Scott’s black mid August with pollen as well in Iowa without any head start.
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That’s huge! I really need to get my hands on some pollen
 
TorontoJoe said:
That’s huge! I really need to get my hands on some pollen
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For sure, I hope I can reproduce the same results this season with our late start. Many varieties were only in the 2-3 week range of speed up. I tried to pollinate the mid branch and some set later were ripening before the earlier set fruits so most of the fruit ripened at the same time. The flavors were much better as well but splitting became a problem when nights got cold due to thicker skin not stretching as easy from the cool weather in my opinion.
 
GoodFriendMike said:
I have had them ripen a week to two weeks earlier than non-pollinated figs. I think @Bofig has seen them ripen even earlier than that. Could be to do with climate difference’s.
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I guess now I just need to squeeze some figs out of this GXY early enough to use the pollen.

Unless anyone wants to mail me an envelope full of a mysterious powdery substance? What could possibly go wrong with that? 🙄
 
I let it dry for 48 hours. Then I turned it inside out to get the pollen out. I think it's supposed to dry 24 hours. Hopefully I didn't mess it up by letting it dry so long.

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I injected a lot of figs with that pollen. It seemed like there was plenty from that one fig. Hopefully it works. Here is a pic of that GxY fig before I cut it open. It's the one in the front with two Beers Black breba behind it.

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I don't know if it's normal to have main crop caprified figs ripening this early. I pollinated a lot of figs. A few have ripened already but some of them don't look right. I picked these two today. Dr Gowaty and Violeta. The Violeta is small and doesn't look normal and didn't taste very good. The Dr Gowaty was very good.

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ETXfigs said:
I don't know if it's normal to have main crop caprified figs ripening this early. I pollinated a lot of figs. A few have ripened already but some of them don't look right. I picked these two today. Dr Gowaty and Violeta. The Violeta is small and doesn't look normal and didn't taste very good. The Dr Gowaty was very good.

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Pollen will ripen them earlier. The violeta "didn't taste good"
Like the fig went bad?
If so. Could be many of things. From bad pollen (I would rule that out, since you used all the same pollen)
to dirty syringe (wipe down between injections if it happens again. see if that helps)
Do you have SWD? And last I can think of right now. Sometimes the water we inject is not clean, which is why I use bottle water and sometimes but not often. The water does not seem to be "absorbed" and seems to rot the fig.
From the photo. It just does not look ripe. Hope the rest of them look and taste better.
 
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