Why?
Answer: Because I have this strange drive to trial as many varieties as I can to help those folks in the PNW or with any similar climate to pick out the best tasting, productive varieties for our climate.
Along the way I've uncovered some great tasting brebas like the Calderwood unknown and Brandon St Unk. Which are great for this area.
But there's also a list of figs that we should avoid here. Even with a green house they are difficult to get a ripe fruit from.
After 3yrs of growing with no fruit, they fig is not meant to be grown here in the PNW. Some figs just do better in different climates.
My growing List for Fig Varieties that have not fruited for here in the PNW. It's a growing list so come back to this.
1. Mission - Hard to get a ripe fruit from this variety
2. Panache - So frustrating. The fruit will come so close to ripening but just will never get there
3. Igo
4. Karachi green - Requires a long season
5. Deanna - Bad Splitting problem not rain resistent
6. Alma - Requires a long season
7. **Kadota - I may need to get mine from another source to give a 2nd shot. But the fruit I got was terrible. Might be from the original source
8. Col De Dames in General - These are truly late varieties and without a heated greenhouse, don't bother wasting your money. They are very expensive and will not ripen in ground here. (with exception to CDD Grise, blanc and maybe Noir which can ripen with a greenhouse)
9. Galicia Negra
10. Genoa - Requires a king season
11. Greek Papa
12. Green Jolly Tiger - I think I bought one of those Bunk reverted green jolly tigers. It fruited but was a capri fig
13. Lake Spur - maybe an adriatic fig. But this fig has never fruited
14. Pappa John
15. Unk Greek Cephalonia
16. Pink Jerusalem
17. Dauphine
18. Pastillere
19. Ponte Tresa
20. Martinenca Rimada
21. White Genoa
More to come
That's an unfortunate list for me! haha. I have a 4yr. Panache in unheated g.house that will ripen a few before mold sets in. I have a YLN in ground that's coming out of it's first winter. I have a Kadota to plant in ground this spring and Alma cuttings rooting now, lol. Good thing I have space! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThat's an unfortunate list for me. haha. I live near the Wa coast and have a few of those going. My Panache is 4 yrs old, unheated g.house, and will produce a few before mold sets in. I planted a YLN in ground last year, have a Kadota waiting to get planted this year and Alma cuttings growing now. Good thing I have the space. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWeird, my 'Atreano' produced a lot of figs last year for it's small potted size, and is currently covered in developing main crop figs its first year in ground.
ReplyDeletethanks for the verification I may get another source for the atreano fig. The one I have is crap lol
DeleteHi Ben,
ReplyDeleteI had three Atreanos in-ground from One Green World. They were 2 years old in 2018. One is planted in a cold windy spot, and it had only a few small fruits and none ripened. The other two Atreanos were planted up against a south-facing fence, and each had at least 25 fruits and about 3 ripened on each plant. With maybe some brebas and with judicious plucking off of main crop unripe fruit, I am expecting to get more ripe ones in 2019
Keith K.
thats a good report. It might be my source of the atreano. I'll keep this guy off the list
DeleteIs there a list of bet figs for PNW?
ReplyDeleteI just bought White Genoa from Flower world nursery. Information said good for cool weather and coastal areas. Thank for your information maybe i have to return it. If its fruits won’t ripe in Seattle areas.
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