Tasting the BB Golden Riverside Fig 2018

BB Golden Riverside Fig
Picked 9/19/18
1 crop

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Oh my beloved Golden Riverside. I've had her for about 3yrs and this year is the best I've seen from it. The tree shows a ton of productivity this year and the fruit is larger than ever. It's out growing its pot and I may just plant it in ground this year.

I've had a lot of requests for cuttings from this tree. It's just one tree so sorry folks there isn't much to go around.

The Golden Riverside is one crop fig. That ripens in September here.

On a day with 8 other main crop varieties and a couple not shown on camera. The Golden Riverside has stood out as still the Queen of main crop figs for me.

Mislabelled Black Madeira, Socorro Black, Golden Riverside, Vincenzo Main, Natalina Main

I really do enjoy this fig. There's so many pluses about it. It's produces huge fruit, productive, tasty and sweet. It's rare to get that kind of combo in fig. 

This year the flavors are honey like with great juiciness. I love that the juiciness are more like honey water than thick molasses. The sweetness is right where I like my figs to be. The syconium has a nice bite to it as well. Like biting into a firm pluot without the acidity. 

I took this fig to work and let some coworkers try it, one person said they are have a figasm as they were eating LOL.

Ben's Golden Riverside (9/19/18)

Main

Taste: 10

Sweetness: 8.5

Size: 16 (151 grams)

Productivity: 6

Total = 40.5

Tasting the perfect Kathleen's Black Fig 2018

Kathleen's Black Fig AKA De La Reina??
Picked 9/19/18
1 Crop

2017 Kathleen's Black

My faith has been restored in this fig. The 1st ripe fig on this tree was a terrible. However this perfectly ripe KB was beyond incredible.

 

This is a berry flavor fig with hints of caramel the longer you let it ripen on the tree. The taste was awesome. Best yet on this tree. Add in the fact that it was a 71 gram main crop put this score on this fig as one of the highest so far.

Compared to the wimpy previous kathleens black this one is huge 71.4 grams

Kathleen's Black (9/19/18)

Main

Taste: 9

Sweetness: 8

Size: 8 (71.4 grams)

Productivity: 3

Total = 29

Tasting a mislabeled Black Madeira Fig 2018 (Sao Luis Maybe?)

mislabeled Black Madeira Fig
Picked 9/18/18
1 Crop

This might be a Sao Luis. (https://www.facebook.com/timo.fig.9/posts/336741020420862)



Well this is not the first time I've grown a fig that I thought was a black madeira and it turns out that it is not.

These are my sources for BMs.

black madeira Churl82

Black Madeira David Eden

Black Madeira figrific

Black Madeira JFE

black madeira Rfactor

Black Madeira KK

Black Madeira UCD

Black Madeira Daniel Mitre - fake

The sources in green are verified so that leaves just churl82 as the possible source. I myself do not sell figs that have not been verified. I do not want a reputation of being a scammer.

Well as you can see below I'm a bit perplexed to find amber pulp on this "Black Madeira". There's a slim chance that I may have misabeled this fig. Unfortunately I did not write my source on the label. I wish I did. Regardless of what variety it is, the tree however is absolutely loaded and looks beautiful with it's evenly spaced figs on every branch.

Now I have a new quest to figure out what this fig is.

Upon first look of the fig, it exhibits some characteristics of a a Black Madeira the leaf though is definitely not that of a black madeira.

37.9 grams

Well to my surprise when I cut this baby in half it was clear that it is not a black madeira. I'm a bit disappointed as well as excited to see if this was going to taste any good.

Well it was.

Maybe I was tainted by my fake wuhan black madeira last year. And I was left with some very low expectations but this is a legit good fig.

It's sort of a honey berry mix with very good sweetness and a syconium that give its nice firm texture.
I did enjoy this fig and will keep it. Who needs 8 black madeira trees anyways...

Mis labeled Black Madeira (9/19/18)

Main

Taste: 8.5

Sweetness: 8.5

Size: 4 (37.9 grams)

Productivity: 5

Total = 26