Violette de Bordeaux - any fans???

oat said:
To be a fertilizer?
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No, I have a Bobcat and a tree planting bit. I will plant the tree so not to care for it like a dedicated potted fig. Since our trees in the ground keeps freezing lately I'm using some of the figs SuperDave gave me scions of, those will be in a group that get to live out life in pots in a very large shade house. I move them into my shop in winter along with the Citrus trees.
 
Breba figs grow extremely well here so the strongest 24 trees that Breba crop are remaining in pots. I have a automatic waterer set up for the Citrus, I will just tap off that to water & feed the potted figs.
 
Rojo said:
Breba figs grow extremely well here so the strongest 24 trees that Breba crop are remaining in pots. I have an automatic waterer set up for the Citrus, I will just tap off that to water & feed the potted figs.
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Where are you located?
 
Charlie Dodgson said:
I spent 8 years amassing a collection of about 600 different fig cultivars and comparing them to VdB. I concluded there is no better tasting fig in my environment.
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Funny how that works. Things can be awesome in one place and mediocre in others. Olympian is supposed to be meh, and yet mine tastes great.
 
Rojo said:
This thread is older but I seem to have a Smith that doesn't fruit also. A rooted Scion off the tree on the other hand look to be setting fig buds on a very vigorous shoot. Does Smith need to be kept vigorous to fruit by chance? It has never been a enthuastic grower for me.
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I'm in the same boat. Huge Smith tree, no figs
 
The solar radiation combined with the heat and humidity makes for good conditions for some figs like LSU Purple and a big Lemon heirloom local fig that grows here. We had 3 weeks in a row of 80+ degree temps which got the sap flowing in the fig trees then we froze 2 nights in a row. Killed everything to the ground. It didn't use to be that way, I had 3 huge fig trees. Too much water killed them.
 
it needs to go through a rebranding. It is most def one of my favorites..specially when you can let it dry up on the tree like a raisin ..OMFG.....
 
I am a big fan of VDB. It's not my best-tasting fig, but it's definitely my all-around best fig - it tastes very good, even excellent if ripened well in right weather, it never splits, even in rain and cool weather, it's relatively early, it's super healthy, I haven't seen any kind of FMV/FMD or any leaf problem on it, and it's one of my most productive varieties. A real workhorse. IIRC, it set 80 and ripened 60 figs in its first year, and around 230 figs in its second year. Now it's in its 4th leaf and is about 4.5 feet tall and 6 feet wide. I left it mostly unpruned... It's loaded with breba and main crop figlets. I haven't counted the figs, but it looks like it will be over 300 this time. I also love how it ripens all the figs during a short period of time.

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Figgin' A said:
I am a big fan of VDB. It's not my best-tasting fig, but it's definitely my all-around best fig - it tastes very good, even excellent if ripened well in right weather, it never splits, even in rain and cool weather, it's relatively early, it's super healthy, I haven't seen any kind of FMV/FMD or any leaf problem on it, and it's one of my most productive varieties. A real workhorse. IIRC, it set 80 and ripened 60 figs in its first year, and around 230 figs in its second year. Now it's in its 4th leaf and is about 4.5 feet tall and 6 feet wide. I left it mostly unpruned... It's loaded with breba and main crop figlets. I haven't counted the figs, but it looks like it will be over 300 this time. I also love how it ripens all the figs during a short period of time.

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That's fantastic. I never could get one to grow here on the Gulf Coast.
 
Rojo said:
This thread is older but I seem to have a Smith that doesn't fruit also. A rooted Scion off the tree on the other hand look to be setting fig buds on a very vigorous shoot. Does Smith need to be kept vigorous to fruit by chance? It has never been a enthuastic grower for me.
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Mine is the opposite. Was just growing a lot and no fruit but this year (year 3) it’s setting fruit on most nodes and relatively early.
 
I found out that a local squirrel is a big fan VDB as well. The darn figs were still very green so I assumed it was too early to protect them, lesson learned.....building a green house in the winter....for now its bags and plastic clamshells on the rest of the figs...
 
Rojo said:
MS Gulf Coast
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Being close to the gulf should help moderate the temperature extremes, nice. We do get false spring here too in the norcal They are not that severe but even mid 30s with frost will fry back growing shoots
 
oat said:
Being close to the gulf should help moderate the temperature extremes, nice. We do get false spring here too in the norcal They are not that severe but even mid 30s with frost will fry back growing shoots
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Be careful of the high humidity
 
DELFIG said:
I found out that a local squirrel is a big fan VDB as well. The darn figs were still very green so I assumed it was too early to protect them, lesson learned.....building a green house in the winter....for now its bags and plastic clamshells on the rest of the figs...
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I had a bad squirrel problem with my Fuyu Persimmon but when we lost the trees due to the tornado now the squirrels can't hide. My Rat Terrier keeps them run out of the yard.
 
Rojo said:
I had a bad squirrel problem with my Fuyu Persimmon but when we lost the trees due to the tornado now the squirrels can't hide. My Rat Terrier keeps them run out of the yard.
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Oh no!...I planted a Fuyu last year....getting fruit buds this year....can't put a GH around that....definitely considering a dog or cat that was raised on squirrel meat....
 
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