finestcitygarden
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Long time lurker, first post. After years of thinking I wanted nothing to do with caprifigs I realized I wanted to use them in my garden. I've been inspired to find local caprifigs here in San Diego after reading about some called "Normal Heights" and "Mission Valley" and finally joined figfanatic at the suggestion of @epiphyte. I think I've found a caprifig in a local alley along a fence entangled in the base of a Mexican fan palm and would like to see what the forum thinks of it. I'll call it "North Park" for now.
I wanted to show images of the figs I have and could add pics of the tree later as it looses more leaves and is easier to see the crop.
I believe it had immature profichi syconia as well as mamme with a few fig wasps and a slightly dry mammoni, which I ate and it was pretty tasty.
Here are some pictures and a video of the wasp:
Here is a relatively poor picture I took at dusk when I found it.
Picture of what I believe is mamme that will overwinter and ripen in spring. When I cut it open there were wasps inside, and I do believe they were wasps, not BFF.
There were several figs like this. I believe these were females that had come into the fig looking to oviposit and create larva for the next cycle. They likely came from the same tree or surrounding other caprifig. However, if you can see they have their wings, and my understanding was that their wings are ripped off when going through the ostiole - so perhaps these are the males lying in wait for the female?
Here is what I believe is a Mammoni (sorry for the dirty hand in photo) that I ate. The skin was not great but the insides were pretty good, definitely edible.
Here is another shot of it along with the mamme with wasps.
And the next day I cut another mamme open and took a video the best way I could showing what I think is a blastophaga with its wings here in San Diego, December 2024
I would appreciate your thoughts! Thanks
I wanted to show images of the figs I have and could add pics of the tree later as it looses more leaves and is easier to see the crop.
I believe it had immature profichi syconia as well as mamme with a few fig wasps and a slightly dry mammoni, which I ate and it was pretty tasty.
Here are some pictures and a video of the wasp:
Here is a relatively poor picture I took at dusk when I found it.
Picture of what I believe is mamme that will overwinter and ripen in spring. When I cut it open there were wasps inside, and I do believe they were wasps, not BFF.
There were several figs like this. I believe these were females that had come into the fig looking to oviposit and create larva for the next cycle. They likely came from the same tree or surrounding other caprifig. However, if you can see they have their wings, and my understanding was that their wings are ripped off when going through the ostiole - so perhaps these are the males lying in wait for the female?
Here is what I believe is a Mammoni (sorry for the dirty hand in photo) that I ate. The skin was not great but the insides were pretty good, definitely edible.
Here is another shot of it along with the mamme with wasps.
And the next day I cut another mamme open and took a video the best way I could showing what I think is a blastophaga with its wings here in San Diego, December 2024
I would appreciate your thoughts! Thanks
