Below is a breeding diagram of figs released by the LSU program.
Cutting(s) of the C1 caprifig were sent to O'Rourke in 1950. The UC Fig breeding program had been under the direction of Ira Condit at the UC Agricultural Research Station in Riverside CA, with much of the science and breeding taking place in Porterville CA, 215 vehicle miles north of UCR. In 1950, the adminstration of the UC breeding program was transferred to UCR and Ira Condit retired to work on his monograph and other matters. At this point in time, the fig breeding program was two generations past Calimyrna. Enderud would not be selected until 1958. Thus, C1 was a closed-eye predecessor to Enderud, Saleeb, etc.
In 1998, offspring of C1 and Celeste were transferred to the LSU Hammond Research Station. In the following decade, Ed O'Rourke stated in an interview that C1 had been lost when the orchard it was contained in was bulldozed for a new dormatory on the main LSU campus. However, some collectors claim to have found a map and located C1 at Hammond circa 2015. However, that map was of the LSU campus orchard. In 2018, the director of the Hammond Research Station told me that the existence of C1 was a myth.
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. Please post them in the LSU DC-2 thread. Here I'm hoping to see all three ripened in the same year in the same environment. It will help determine differences in morphology for breeding purposes.
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