If I Could Only Choose 1 Fig Variety... Here's 3 For ANY Climate

Alright fig lovers, this is Ross the Fig Boss

Today's video I want to talk about three fig varieties that I think are just above and

beyond the rest. What I mean is they pretty much check every single box you could think of

What I mean is they're quite hardy and can be grown even in the coldest climates all

the way down to zone 7a. They're also quite rain resistant, split resistant, humidity resistant

And they also ripen early or early enough to ripen in almost any climate

And they also, if the main crop doesn't ripen early enough, they produce a plentiful and

very tasty Braba. And they also, all three of them, taste really, really good

So the question is, people ask me all the time, Ross, you have hundreds of varieties

you've tried, seriously guys, I've tried over 500 varieties at this point

If I could only choose one, which one would it be? Well it would gotta, it has to be at least one of these three that check all of the boxes

And these three varieties are Vila de Bordeaux, Green Maturinska, the one you see behind me

and also Moro de Caneva. So all of these trees, I think, like I said, check all the boxes

Now I'll tell you this, here's something interesting. I've got in my hand here a fig called J.H. Adriatic

This is very, very similar to the one behind me, Green Maturinska

And this ripens about two or three weeks later than Green Maturinska does

It does also produce a Brava, but it's much later to ripen

I would say the hang time and the split resistance and the rain resistance is probably rather similar

But these figs here, these Green Maturinska figs, taste almost identical. And they ripen two to three weeks earlier

And the Bravas this year, this tree produced 40 Bravas. And not only has this tree been producing for many weeks before the other Adriatic

but it's producing even a second set of main crop. It's producing three sets of figs

They even have names for figs like these, like the Trace's Splace, or in other languages

they call them three crops. And that's exactly what this tree is doing, because if you prune it properly, we talked

a little bit about in the spring, you even get another set of main

So I mean, you could do the same thing on J.H. Adriatic, but you wouldn't get that second

crop to ripen in time during these short season or in these short season climates

The same thing can be said for Morro de Caneva. We have fruit still on the tree

It's the middle of September, guys. I mean, we pretty much are done all of the trees except for these and the late varieties

So really long harvest window. And again, we pinched some of the trees here

You can see that there at the top where there's fruit forming on these branches

So you know, that's my point. You know, I think this is a bold claim to make, but you can't disagree

I don't know of another fig that fits all of these boxes

These three I think are really difficult to beat. So I thank you guys here for watching this one

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Catch you guys for the next one. Take care