Last years growth will give this years breba crop. This summers growth will produce the later, main crop, but only if you fig is genetically inclined and your season is long enough.

Desert King is one that always gives a nice breba crop, but its main crop is lacking in that it needs a pollinator wasp, which we lack in the PNW. So no main crop.

Kadota genetically needs no such wasp, so it is able to put on two shows per summer!

Other successful PNW figs are likely comprised of either of these two models.

You're welcome!

Negronne is the tastiest of them all, in our opinion. But it needs either a long grow season or sunlight all day long, plus if you can situate it against a southfacing wall, it bears even better. But at the end of the season on ours, the persistent, unripened figs last all winter and will mould, and that mould will travel down the stem and kill portions of it. So if you are going to chance it with Negronne, you hafta be sure to knock all the persistent, non-ripened figs off in the fall. More work on a large bush!

Desert King is probably our favorite, for what works for us. Very nice fig, and plentiful, reliable cropping.

Kadota might produce more sheer volume of figs due to its double crop, but they seem a little more stringy in the mouth. When they are dried, you cannot tell if there are strings or not, only when fresh.

I might have an extra Desert King if you are the same person that was looking for berry plants.

You will need to stop all watering at the end of July. This forces the wood to harden up, so the freezes won't be killing green wood. You want that wood to turn brown!

Maybe even protect the roots from early fall rains with a tarp, that will help it dry down as well. I have done it.

Well now you tell me that you have to remove the leftover fruits! I definitely have rotters still on the tree.

I'm gonna claim that I told ya along time ago, but you just forgot! LOL That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

I think my wife likes it better than all of the other fruit we have and she didn't even know she liked figs before that. I wish I'd known before I gave the cherry tree the choicest fruit tree location on our property.

Excellent! She deserves what she loves! Maybe your next property will allow for better positions! hint, hint!

Negronne is definetely one of the richer tasting figs for the PNW. If you have a greenhouse, for the added heat, there are even better tasting cultivars. I have them in my collection, but they are nearly worthless without the extra So. Cal type heat.

Last year we got about a dozen breba and closer to 100 main crop with maybe 100 more that didn't quite ripen before the rains got steady.

That is the problem I was speaking of with less than a full day of sun! Subtract 25% and your main crop will just barely squeek in, with plenty that just rot.

Full sun is the absolute best, I don't care what fig we are talking about.

the fruit you gave me to try was sooo sweet I could barely stand it. Before that I didn't think it was possible for a fig to be too sweet.

Glad you at least met your match! I like them straight off the tree, and when they are dried the sugar just goes through the roof! That is when they are good for scissoring up into an oatmeal recipe.

High in calcium too.

Figs love calcium. Everybody (in the PNW) put some garden lime around your figs! Or eggshells, oystershell, or bone black.

It is probably not possible to over do it. A coffee can or two per tree seems good. Maybe more.