Iranian Candy vs. IC vs. Hollier

Tinyfish said:
Not much will compete with Improved Celeste for ripening time. If having the earliest ripening variety is most important then Improved Celeste is the one.
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I dont know why I'm not growing it. If you ever have a branch or sucker to spare... please let me know. Is it right there with Florea for early?
 
As someone with deep Lebanese roots, I probably should grow it.
I have RLBV. My mother was born and raised in Zahle (main city in Bekaa Valley) and I was baptized at St. Anthony of (something—-) in Zahle.
As a kid, I recall hiking with siblings & relatives up in the surrounding mountains and visiting orchards and vineyards referred to as El Kroom (الكروم), which is basically an agricultural area where Figs, Cherries, Peaches, and Grapes are grown by the locals.My grandparents owned huge land there.
Photo shows the city with the surrounding area.
 

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We cut ours back so there is no wood to get Breba. So we don’t know. It was putting on figs until the cold stopped ripening.( and birds stole the last few) But I’d want another year to give a more confident answer.
 
SpiritFarmVa said:
Here is our Hollier versus Yellow Lebanese.
Similar figs but the Yellow Lebanese was bigger, more productive, more flavorful and better tasting. We wouldn’t give up our Hollier it’s a great fig. But if we had to choose one it would be the Yellow Lebanese.
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Would you mind sharing your source? Seems very worthy of a trial in love Hollier but in pots they split alot and ive not seen it's best work yet
 
SpiritFarmVa said:
Both our Hollier and Yellow Lebanese came from Sperman(figcuttings.com) he sourced his Yellow Leb. From Harvey. Hollier splits for me too.
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I meant to say also that there is one called Yellow Lebanese Bekka Valley as well but the photos i see of fruits are green before they turn yellow... I wonder if its the same or different...

figcuttings.com never responded to me when I contacted one year maybe too busy and now room for few... Hopefully you will have extra next year?
 
LaFigGwr18 said:
These my LSU Hollier breba. The main crop does not have that neck and I started picking ours the second week on June and we still have figs on the tree.
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Also @LAfig i don't remember necks on my Hollier even Breba but they've been small so far thats interesting.. I do think there have been mixups with Scott's Yellow but im not saying i know but ive seen photos of figs labeled Scott's Yellow that look like those in your pic

I saw a comment about it too saying SY takes alot of rain and doesn't split . I still don't have it
 
DallasFigShop said:
I meant to say also that there is one called Yellow Lebanese Bekka Valley as well but the photos i see of fruits are green before they turn yellow... I wonder if its the same or different...

figcuttings.com never responded to me when I contacted one year maybe too busy and now room for few... Hopefully you will have extra next year?
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Ours are green like any fig until they go yellow if that’s what you mean. But once they start to ripen they are only yellow. We may have something hanging around that’s spare. If we find anything we will let you know. I wonder too if yellow Lebanese and yellow Lebanese BV are synonyms.
 
Iranian candy for me has had a nice fruity flavour, but it has a very large open eye. I had some very good caramel/sugar flavoured improved celeste this year, but some others lacked flavour and were very basic. Yellow Lebanese was decent as well but need another year to evaluate. I prefer berry flavour so in the early category black celeste is by far my fav and rdb very good as well but some split. Dte was consistently good and was productive and did not split. Had my first few grise de st Jean this year which were very good and earlier than I was expecting. Looking forward to trying more of those next season.
 
LaFigGwr18 said:
I agree with ktrain. I have LSU Hollier and tasted Imp. Celeste and Hollier to me is much better. I don't have Iranian Candy nor have I tasted it so I can't comment on that one.
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I just purchased Hollier from OTBP. I’m doing the old Italian man way to root it. Your post above is now confirmed I made a good decision making me anxious for it to take root and grow so I can taste at least one this season
 
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