Hardiness: Survives outdoors in Seattle
Type: bifere - but a week breba crop
Fruit Ripens: Early September
Fruit Color: Black with red interior
Taste: Very good sweet and berry tones
Fruit Weight: 30grams
Leaf Structure: 3 main pointy finger lobes
If you know about figs, you have to know that the Ronde De Bordeaux fig is the staple of any fig collection. A french fig, aptly named means Black and Round. It's a cold hardy plant that can survive in zone 6. Extremely productive!
A bifere fig which bears a light breba crop and main crop that ripens late August through the month of Sept. The figs top out at 40G per fig and has a slightly open eye. They bear well to the rain and humidity, which makes it almost a perfect in taste, vigor and it's resistance to cold.
The leaves are beautiful and finger like.
This is just one branch from Slavi's tree. Photo taken at the beginning of August. There must be over 20 something fruits on there.
Ronde de Bordeaux yields figs with a shiny black skin and deep red flesh with a wonderfully rich flavor. Early, sweet and so tasty.
If you only had to keep 5 figs, this has to be part of your collection.I have 4 of these guys currently growing in my collection.
HI~Ben B
ReplyDeleteI am learning a lot from you blog.
But this seems to be mistaken.
Ronde de Bordeaux = aka : Pastiliere | Hirta du Japon
It is the same name as Rouge de Bordeaux.
i'm your fan ~
actually check out this link for the source of those names http://www.planetfig.com/cultivars/fcveng8586.html
DeleteHI~Ben B
ReplyDeleteI am learning a lot from you blog.
But this seems to be mistaken.
Ronde de Bordeaux = aka : Pastiliere | Hirta du Japon
It is the same name as Rouge de Bordeaux.
i'm your fan ~
If my site is in the open shade of evergreens through the winter, (tall Douglas firs grow 75 to 100 feet south of my site on the neighbors' property) but has lots of sun between May and September would figs grow for me?
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