Ischia Black UCD
Ischia Black in 2nd growing season starting to ripen a few figs .
This season the spring was not cooperating and plants started few weeks behind .
Anyways they are starting to ripen with hope they do not split like some others have in yard due the heavy rains for several days which brought 3-5 inches of rain .
Martin
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bluemoonlight
10 days agoThat looks pretty close but not close enough.
Still looks good !
I picked a few today, here are pictures of some of them
Even with cavity inside it was heavy, tasty sweet, skin easy soft and sweetert hen pulp, good seed crunch, juice, I prefer jammy figs but it's nice change.
I bought this one as Lattarola not Lattarula!
I am not sure it's TRUE to type, not much to write about, maybe after few seasons.
Some from few days befor 😋
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6 days agobluemoonlight
5 days agoI love it in September to walk in yard and pick up a fig or two as I am doing things. I have a few dark figs that are so similar in taste to Hardy Chicago when they shrivel a little and they get dark like this
Black Mission fig, I kind of thought they should be larger, 82 grams both, tasted sweet and acidy but, last 2 weeksn nights are cooler.I hope it's true to type 🤔 but as long as it tastes good.
I love it kind of sticky jam very berry 😋 I see lots of YouTube videos that people just bite in to a fig, I like to eithersplit or cut fig in half, right away smell it's pulp and then place it on tongue pulp side down, it really tastes a little better, my experience any way. Most of the dark figs have scent that of mulberry, but I think I mentioned that befor.
Annadieseler
4 days agodieseler
3 days agolast modified: 3 days agoHad 1 ischia today it was a pleasure to eat and the skin was nice and soft the seed crunch was a nice as well.
I put on scale as i was making bread today and it was 28grams.
The plant put on decent amount of figs for its size but picked of many as they came on late
BestMartin
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