Ripening Order

[Steven J.]

Thank you all for your help and for making this a fun place to talk figs.

After asking around, I decided to plant my trees in order of ripening order. Fig trees with reliable breba crops or earlier main crops will be closer to the house.

I asked AI to organize my collection by ripening order. Does this seem more or less accurate? I can't plant anything right now, but hopefully soon, once I get better.

I am also interested in any recommendations if you have them. I am considering culling Lathrop, Natalina Fico Cirino, and maybe a few others.

 

[figologist]

That actually seems pretty accurate to me.

 

[Steven J.]

That actually seems pretty accurate to me.

Cool! Thanks for the feedback

 

[ETXfigs]

That reminds me of how late of a start mine got. You have Olympian in Late June - July and my EBT still hasn't swelled yet.

 

[Steven J.]

That reminds me of how late of a start mine got. You have Olympian in Late June - July and my EBT still hasn't swelled yet.

I had the list adjusted for CA 9B so we do typically get figs pretty early. That might explain the difference.Last year, Olympian was one of my earliest and longest producing varieties. Nonstop.

 

[ETXfigs]

I had the list adjusted for CA 9B so we do typically get figs pretty early. That might explain the difference.Last year, Olympian was one of my earliest and longest producing varieties. Nonstop.

My EBT is 1st year but it has impressed me at how it has turned into a beautiful little tree. The shape and it is larger than most of the others that I rooted this year, and it has more figs on it. I wouldn't be surprised if next year it is one of my best trees.

 

[betdempster]

Oh my I have spent so much time making a spreadsheet - which I am only halfway through - to figure out what figs ripen early vs mid vs late to make sure I had figs to go all season long and I could just plug them into a list and ask Ai... I'm going to try that tomorrow! Thanks for putting it out there!

 

[Steven J.]

Oh my I have spent so much time making a spreadsheet - which I am only halfway through - to figure out what figs ripen early vs mid vs late to make sure I had figs to go all season long and I could just plug them into a list and ask Ai... I'm going to try that tomorrow! Thanks for putting it out there!

Sure thing! Make sure you tell AI your city and zone and clarify that you want figs all year, so recommend changes to your collection.

 

[superdave336]

Best use of AI that I’ve seen so far.

 

[ktrain]

Good info, and I see a few of my favs on that list.

 

[ETXfigs]

Earlier this year I used grok to make a list of varieties that would do well with limited sunlight because of all the shade trees in the back yard. Now that I am beginning to grow indoors I am wondering if the varieties on that list are also ones that will do well indoors under lights. I might go back and talk to grok about it.

 

[Higueras]

AI is not very accurate when you get down to the details. I don’t think panache or CLBC are mid season. Same with NSDC.

I think you can improve accuracy a bit by directing it to use sources that you know are reputable. (Include in your gpt prompt to ‘answer based on data from: x, y, z sources’).

 

[ETXfigs]

AI is not very accurate when you get down to the details. I don’t think panache or CLBC are mid season. Same with NSDC.

I think you can improve accuracy a bit by directing it to use sources that you know are reputable. (Include in your gpt prompt to ‘answer based on data from: x, y, z sources’).

I noticed that sometimes I have to ask it very specific questions. For example if I ask it what fig varieties do well in limited sun light?, it would give me a few that I'm not really interested in. But if I said what about Dr Gowaty? Then it would say, 6-8 hours and it would give me more specific details, so I had to feed it every variety that I was interested in, but it would keep them together in a running list.

 

[Steven J.]

AI is not very accurate when you get down to the details. I don’t think panache or CLBC are mid season. Same with NSDC.

I think you can improve accuracy a bit by directing it to use sources that you know are reputable. (Include in your gpt prompt to ‘answer based on data from: x, y, z sources’).

Thank you. I was hoping someone could spot something off
I will be adjusting the list.

 

[Steven J.]

AI is not very accurate when you get down to the details. I don’t think panache or CLBC are mid season. Same with NSDC.

I think you can improve accuracy a bit by directing it to use sources that you know are reputable. (Include in your gpt prompt to ‘answer based on data from: x, y, z sources’).

I just checked, and in my area, those varieties seem to have their first fruits around August/September and continue to fruit later. That might be why it sounds off. I think I will keep them there for now and observe their fruiting next season.

 

[LadyGT]

I live in the South when bud break in the spring is March. The NSDC is a late variety for me. You can watch online when people start posting photos or discussing varieties you have and use that as a guide. When folks mention fruit bearing dates up North, I subtract at least a month because their springs are later than mine.

I include breba in my dates. When I start getting ripening fruits, that is what I go with.

 

[Steven J.]

I live in the South when bud break in the spring is March. The NSDC is a late variety for me. You can watch online when people start posting photos or discussing varieties you have and use that as a guide. When folks mention fruit bearing dates up North, I subtract at least a month because their springs are later than mine.

I include breba in my dates. When I start getting ripening fruits, that is what I go with.

That is good to a good idea. Thanks for sharing. So far, I only have two listed with their breba taken into account. As time goes on and I get more experience, I would like to organize my collection more like yours. I think that will just take time, but this list was a cool headstart.