Thursday, October 31, 2024

Figs in 2024

The next fig cuttings sale will open sometime in December on reallygoodplants.com 

The summer and fall of 2024 were pretty fruitful, with a wide diversity of figs producing excellent fruits. All my fig trees planted in 2022 have fruited. Many trees planted in 2023 also produced fruits, although normally later in the season. 

The figs I had fruits this year from are:

  1. Bass Favorite
  2. Black Madera
  3. Black Tuscan
  4. Bordissot Blanca Negra
  5. Bordissot Negra Rimada
  6. Bourjasotte Gris
  7. Bourjasotte Noire
  8. Col de Dame Blanc
  9. Col de Dame Gris
  10. Col de Dame Noir
  11. Coll de Dama Gegantina
  12. Coll de Dama Rimada
  13. Cravens Cravings
  14. De la Senyora (Hivernica)
  15. Desert King
  16. Emallyn's Purple
  17. Excel
  18. Figo Preto de Torres Novas
  19. Galicia Negra
  20. Genoviese Nero (AF)
  21. Hative de Argentueil
  22. Igo
  23. Ischia Black
  24. Italian 258
  25. Longue d'Aout
  26. Maltese Beauty
  27. Martinenca Rimada
  28. Negra d'Agde
  29. Panache
  30. PAS
  31. Pastillier
  32. Ponte Tresa
  33. Red Lebanese
  34. Rigato de Soliento
  35. Socorro Black
  36. Tashkent
  37. TV3
  38. UCR187-25
  39. UCR K-6-5
  40. Valle Negra
  41. Violette de Soleis
  42. White Madeira #1
  43. Woodland Green
  44. Zidi
  45. Palmata hybrid DFIC0023

I often get asked, which fig is my favorite? Well, not all figs fruit at the same time, to do the head-to-head comparisons. However, I think the overall favorite was the Woodland Green in this season. It is a large green fig with juicy bright red interior. In the picture below it is the most left pile of fruits. Desert king in the lower part of the picture with PAS on the right. Woodland Green is the most juicy with the most bright/sharp and complex flavor.

This video https://youtube.com/shorts/Fp1427kC3fk goes over all of these three excellent figs.

Woodland Green is a productive midseason ripening fig, most likely of the Adriatic type.  Another video cover just Woodland Green:  https://youtube.com/shorts/Sc1BKP0xkDM

I really enjoyed eating majority of the fig fruits. Below will be the pictures of the plates I made sometime in summer.  All figs there are wonderful fruits. This video covers my tasting results for these figs: https://youtu.be/ySZnar_bKJw




I compared the Black Madera, Black Tuscan, and Craven's Cravings. Some consider them the same cultivar, but they seem different to me. 


The only two figs I really did't care about are Excel and UCR K-6-5, and these are going out of my collection.

As I'm writing this post, there are 83 videos in my Figs Playlist on YouTube.  Each video features one of more fig fruits.  The Fig Playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiwjdtJGDLQf9PALpj-VnX7LevoxrQcf9


Most trees grew vigorously this summer. In winter we are offering the fig cutting of many cultivars on our sales site reallygoodplants.com

My rooting video is here: https://youtu.be/Owewb8MtPMc



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