I like it's shape, did it shape itself or did you help it to look the way it does ?

Martin are you fretilizing the way you use to ?

I have one Violette de Bordeaux too, for some reason its ripening one of it's two breba fig, I don't know why 🤔 its way to early

Hi, with new arriving plants usually they are let to grow as they please for a season or 2 .

Basically yes on fertilizing same, the new small ones get less than half strength most waterings except during hot weather which then is regular water .

Basically starting over as many have died last several years and or were discarded and just having 6-9 different types then perhaps less from there in time depending on a few new ones never tasted before .

Thanks and Best To You

Martin

Martin, very nice tree))

I was thinking on getting one. What do you like about this type of tree? Is it sweet? easier to grow? Fruit early? Curious...

Thanks

Thanks Martin 🙂

First one to ripe this season was VdB, it was tiny but yumm.

Way, way to early usually they start second, third week in July, don't know what made it to ripen so early

Negronne is loaded wis breba so maybe it's a start.

Bluemoonlight thats wonderful looking breba and thanks for posting the picture of yours.

My bet is the taste matched the wonderful look of that fig.

Perhaps will be able to show main crop figs this season from several plants and more next season hopefully as others are too young for now.

Martin

Violette de Bordeaux was tiny but very sweet, texture jammy with fragrant and flavor was that of well ripe black mulberry.

No wonder it's one of your favorite figs.

This picture is from last season.

Violette de Bordeaux is a cutting rooted 2019

Negronne nineth seaso, Little Miss Figgy fourth season.

They are very similar but not same.

Mulberry has always been a favorite since a young child and fond memories of a large bush hanging over a fence across the gravel stone alley from Grandmothers house.

My brother and i would visit that bush and then come back with hands all purple sometimes stained shirts .

Still eat them as there are some large ones on walking/bike trail across the street and they are fabulous .There are some whites ones there also and like the figs of same color do not eat them.

VdB will ripen a few figs this season and look forward to them.

Thanks for posting your pictures.

Martin

I have one more ripening

Grantham's Royal started swelling a few days ago.

I never had this one before.

The heat wave was somethin else ! In my back yard courtyard I measured 118 F in afternoon like for 4 hours, at night 95 F just brutal.

I overwatered most of fig trees and other flower and vegetables containers to prevent roots cooking.

Most of breba figs cooked on trees including bueautiful Grandma's Royal not edable at all.

Some leaves burned to a crisp, it's still hot but not that bad and fig trees are recovering, some main crop is drying and dropping off

There was a few that ripen to decent taste

Black Bethlehem and Atreano I don't know how they manage to survive but they where delicious !

Now main crop figs looks smaller in size then last year at this time.

Well how is your season going ?

Anna

Hi, here in yard the fig plants are coming along fine . There are a few with main crop figs that will be enjoyed down the road.

Also fun to watch the small plants grow.

Martin

There is a new invasive pest on fig trees. They cause what appears to be the figs ripening early but it is what this pest does (lays its eggs and then moves on to another fig--the fig is inedible). We are seeing it in California (unfortunately). Please be on the lookout for it and report it to your ag commissioner.

Black Fig Fly ((Silba adipata McAlpine) has positively been identified in southern California. This is a major pest in areas around the Mediterranean and has now been found in California. Attacks figs only. Misshapen or prematurely dark or soft fruit are likely what would be noticed first. Please contact your local California Ag Commissioner's office right away if you spot this pest. Two links for Black Fig Fly information are below:

https://crfg.org/category/black-fig-fruit-fly/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2U09fXJSEF5YBuXs3bbdlzOBAkIJJIrh7en8nR0IgWwbuuaYNQ4s7a8b0&v=ezIk-e6Ami8&feature=youtu.be

My Violette de Bordeaux had its breba crop just shriveled up and died due to too much sun and heat (we have been as high as 118 F and it just is not cooling off at night--unless you call 85 F cool). I am not hopeful for my second crop as I am just trying to keep the tree alive between water restrictions and the heat. Ugh! I can't wait for summer to be gone!

You folks have it much hotter than our 90s we have been having as of late with high humidity but have the pleasure if need be to move the figs as they are in containers.

Next 11 days call for highs 80 to 85 .

Martin

Wish my Violet de bordeaux looked that nice! Mine is a ripoff 7 inch rooted cutting from florida hill nursery, and is just beginning to leaf out. I hope my fig tree gets to be really healthy like you guys' figs.

GardeningTeenager, if your plant is a tissue culture, they are tiny, but they grow much faster than normal plants. They are produced free of virus, blight, bacteria, etc. If you have no other fig trees which might transmit FMV (fig mosaic virus) to your tissue culture tree, don't get any cuttings or rooted plants other than tissue culture plants and you might avoid ever getting FMV.

Sadly tissue culture does not eliminate FMV it duplicates the plant exactly and is used for mass producing of plants.

Invitro eliminates FMV by extracting the meristem under a microscope under strict sterile conditions and grown as such until it can be tested to be clean.

Looked into this many years back .

Martin