My 1st Yolo Bypass

9ah-figlet

9ah-figlet

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I was so happily surprised today to pick my 1st Yolo Bypass off a 2-yr old tree in an 8-gallon pot. The yellow-green skin and pink eye didn’t register as a ripe fig in my mind. While I must have noticed it swelling because it was bagged, it wasn’t till I saw a yellow jacket stuck in the bag that I realized it was ripe.

Working very carefully to remove the organza bag without being stung, I picked this lovely fig:
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Look at that nice tight eye that protected it against the bugs.

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The color was beautiful—a deep red.

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You could tell how dense the texture is by how the fig held together when quartered.
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The flavor was very complex—it starts off very sweet, but then the berry builds up in the back of your throat and smacks you! The seed crunch was a nice complement.

I can only imagine how amazing these will be when pollinated. Next year, I will start experimenting with hand pollination. I only ripened one caprifig this season, but I picked it too early and there wasn’t much pollen.

A special thanks to @"CA-Orchard"#11 for gifting this cutting to me.
 
9ah-figlet said:
I was so happily surprised today to pick my 1st Yolo Bypass off a 2-yr old tree in an 8-gallon pot. The yellow-green skin and pink eye didn’t register as a ripe fig in my mind. While I must have noticed it swelling because it was bagged, it wasn’t till I saw a yellow jacket stuck in the bag that I realized it was ripe.

Working very carefully to remove the organza bag without being stung, I picked this lovely fig:
Click for original
IMG-3362.jpg


Look at that nice tight eye that protected it against the bugs.

Click for original
IMG-3366.jpg


The color was beautiful—a deep red.

Click for original
IMG-3367.jpg

You could tell how dense the texture is by how the fig held together when quartered.
Click for original
IMG-3368.jpg


The flavor was very complex—it starts off very sweet, but then the berry builds up in the back of your throat and smacks you! The seed crunch was a nice complement.

I can only imagine how amazing these will be when pollinated. Next year, I will start experimenting with hand pollination. I only ripened one caprifig this season, but I picked it too early and there wasn’t much pollen.

A special thanks to @"CA-Orchard"#11 for gifting this cutting to me.




Wow!  That looks really good!  And thanks for the great description and review!
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Hm..if that is not pollinated it sure does look fantastic.
I thought I had this one early on my fig collecting but maybe not.
So many said it was lack luster outside the wasp areas.

Very nice!
 
@"9ah-figlet"#12 Your posted thread pleased me very much. Your photogenically delicious looking pictures made for great eye candy. While your verbal description of the flavors, and taste filled me with Envy. Congratulations on growing this 2-year-old fig tree in an 8 gallon container. Your fig was a very good size too. Do you think there's any chance the Fig wasp was able to pollinate it?
 
Thanks everyone! There is no fig wasp where I live and I didn’t have pollen to hand pollinate this year so it definitely wasn’t caprified.

I can’t explain it either—I too have heard the so-so reports outside wasp country and wanted the fig primarily to play with hand pollination. The weather has been nuts here—unusually hot most of the summer—so it probably got a lot more GDD than most years.
 
I have two with no fruit growth. 3 seasons and I haven’t been able to try. It’s the last fig I need to taste to see if any of my finds are superior to the known best.
 
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