2025 Main Crop Figs

Red_Sun

Red_Sun

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Today I went to my yard and saw a lot of main crop figlets. This is about the same, maybe a couple of days earlier than 2023. I did not record them last year.

The Mt. Etna figs are the earliest again. Even though they are not the first ones to leaf out. I can see St. Rita, Macool, Syrian Ammary Black, SMR/Azores Dark, Reservoir. St. Rita is the earliest figlet.

The other ones I saw are: Easton Purple, Valle Negra, Green Michurinska, Petite Negri, St.Jean de Grise, Florea, Battaglia Green, Reversed Panache, Golden Rainbow, Black Zadar. Some others look like figlets, but I'm not 100% certain.

Macool:

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St. Rita:

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Easton Purple:

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ktrain said:
What is your opinion on Black Zadar?
I was growing it but it died in winter storage...I seen a lot of people saying it wasn't a big loss.
Never did replace it.
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Black Zadar only fruited last year. So I have limited experience with it The one I picked has the squat shape. I'm not a huge fan of that. But the breba on the tree right now is regular shape. So I'll need to wait to get a better evaluation of this one.
 
Red_Sun said:
Black Zadar only fruited last year. So I have limited experience with it The one I picked has the squat shape. I'm not a huge fan of that. But the breba on the tree right now is regular shape. So I'll need to wait to get a better evaluation of this one.
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Understandable, I'd like to hear some reviews before I go and add it back to my collection.
Look forward to see you post about it later this season if you get around to it.
 
Fishinjunky said:
That's awesome looking good !!👍
How much do you like the Mt Etna types?
I have 4 I will hopefully get to try for first time this season
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Mt. Etna figs do not leaf out the earliest, but definitely produces the earliest time and earliest age. Excellent quality figs. It is just too much and people do not even want them.

But I like fig production, not a fig seller. So productive Mt. Etna figs are still better than the 100 day "rare" figs. Those are for making money.
 
Red_Sun said:
Mt. Etna figs do not leaf out the earliest, but definitely produces the earliest time and earliest age. Excellent quality figs. It is just too much and people do not even want them.

But I like fig production, not a fig seller. So productive Mt. Etna figs are still better than the 100 day "rare" figs. Those are for making money.
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I have to agree here, If I have an orchard of Etnas I'd be happy.
Even here in the south, the lates ones usually ripen in the middle of rust season.
I don't get them all...a lot still don't ripen.
 
ktrain said:
I have to agree here, If I have an orchard of Etnas I'd be happy.
Even here in the south, the lates ones usually ripen in the middle of rust season.
I don't get them all...a lot still don't ripen.
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I'm moving towards a majority of the figs on my farm being Etna types. Why struggle to fruit a couple "high end" figs when Etnas generously pump them out. In the end they all taste 99% the same. All the money is in selling plant material of "high end" garbage,but all the fruit is in the cheap commonly found workhorses. Irony at its finest!
 
Uncle Jessup said:
I'm moving towards a majority of the figs on my farm being Etna types. Why struggle to fruit a couple "high end" figs when Etnas generously pump them out. In the end they all taste 99% the same. All the money is in selling plant material of "high end" garbage,but all the fruit is in the cheap commonly found workhorses. Irony at its finest!
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I concur.
Though a well ripened Adriatic is nice. 😁
 
Uncle Jessup said:
I'm moving towards a majority of the figs on my farm being Etna types. Why struggle to fruit a couple "high end" figs when Etnas generously pump them out. In the end they all taste 99% the same. All the money is in selling plant material of "high end" garbage,but all the fruit is in the cheap commonly found workhorses. Irony at its finest!
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Agree.

I now have 12 trees planted inground, 8 of which are Etnas and 7 of those the same type - my family Unknown.
 
Red_Sun said:
Mt. Etna figs do not leaf out the earliest, but definitely produces the earliest time and earliest age. Excellent quality figs. It is just too much and people do not even want them.

But I like fig production, not a fig seller. So productive Mt. Etna figs are still better than the 100 day "rare" figs. Those are for making money.
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Thank you. I agree
 
I agree, and am a fan of Mt Etna's even though I've only tried unkown Mt. Etna's, it's part of the reason what made me get known figs. After I found out that there was so much more than Dark/Black, White/Green, and Brown figs I wanted to start trying/having a fig with a name and compare.

A nice thing with Mt. Etna's or any of the other groups for that matter, through trial and error one should be able to have a good variety of different tasting figs, not to mention early, mid/normal and late season figs that can do relatively well in your given area.
 
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