RLBV

Have you ever been able to compare RLBV or any other Etna type caprified vs uncaprified? Don’t hear much information on caprified Etnas out west.
 
It’s better than Hardy Chicago and other Etna types, but splits like crazy here.

I got rid of most my Etna types early on so I haven’t really tracked pollinated VS un pollinated.
 
@"Figology"#21. Red Lebanese Becca Valley. What a rich looking, and scrumptiously beautiful fig fruit. Congratulations my friend for growing it. Who knows maybe this thing will improve for you next season, and you will decide to keep it.

I tried two Summer cuttings of this variety, but it looks like I will not be successful. One of them appeared to take, but I decided to give it a slight wettable sulfur treatments. Sadly it was too much, and it looks like I lost my girl. I will be trying again this winter. But who knows maybe I will get lucky, and one of those two cuttings may yet make it.
 
All of my trees are first year cuttings, and maybe half produced figs. RLBV was distinctly raspberry flavored and very thick/sticky, reliable in humidity and rain, smallish- but a favorite of mine (my husband prefers more seed crunch).
Of course it could change as it matures…
Have Croze on my WL, maybe I don’t need that one after all?
 
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Note the difference between the RLBVs grown in different in-ground areas of my yard. One area is a large raised be the other is just in ground on a slanted site so it would drain well. I bet that those of you growing it pots could get better results by using a better draining mix (60% perlite) for some of your varieties like the Etnas. I exclusively grow in ground with them, but based on what I see it matters a ton (whereas relative humidity in the two spots is comparable). The figs grown in the two different are night and day different. I posted about it today.
 
Gladstone1969 said:
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Note the difference between the RLBVs grown in different in-ground areas of my yard. One area is a large raised be the other is just in ground on a slanted site so it would drain well. I bet that those of you growing it pots could get better results by using a better draining mix (60% perlite) for some of your varieties like the Etnas. I exclusively grow in ground with them, but based on what I see it matters a ton (whereas relative humidity in the two spots is comparable). The figs grown in the two different are night and day different. I posted about it today.
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Great looking plate
 
Figology said:
Not a great fig for me and after growing Crozes and RLBV next to each other, they might be identical twins or at least fraternal twins. I’ll cull both just the same. Both are 3 seasons old. 
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I felt the same way. It was good.... just not great... and way to similar to several others... Nothing wrong with it... Just had to go for lack of wow-factor and space restrictions
 
Figology said:
@"Gladstone1969"#72

Great plate. I might think one of those RLBV trees isn’t true to type.

Understandable - I am blown away by the difference too. But this was started as a cutting by me that was cut in half as was my MBVS cutting. They are both identical and show the same difference in these two areas. I’m 99.9% it’s just the difference between the soil in the two locations. I have 4 Mt. Etnas in my area 2 (MBvs, RLBv, Mavra Sika, and Dominick), directly in ground - no raised bed, that all behave identically. I have 4 varieties of My. Etna in my raised bed that behave the same (MBvs, RLBV, Malta Black, and Takoma Violet), that also behave exactly like the Mt. Etnas. They are from different sources too. 
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My red Lebanese Becca Valley looks to have failed me in my first summer propagation attempt. The Cutting look to me successfully taking, when I attempted to apply a little wettable sulfur to protect it from fig bud mites. I'm still hoping it will come back but usually it does not happen very often here at figless farms. This is it
 
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