Proper spelling in Greece is 'Vasilika Aspra', or 'Vasilika Syka Aspra', since Syka only means fig), Aspra is just 1 of at least 5 different cultivars of 'Vasilika Syka'.
Herman2 (Vasile Surugiu) got this cultivar in 2010 from a 'Greek Gardener' in 'Mount Laurel, New Jersey', it's the real Greek 'Vasilika Syka Aspra'.
The leaves of 'Vasilika Sika (VS)' are short and wide. This cultivar grows like a weed.
The figs of 'Vasilika Sika (VS)' are medium in size, it's figs are a little more or a little less than an inch, and it's dark red flesh has an intense thick chewy rich jammy texture, and a tasty sweet highly concentrated strawberry like flavor, with a little bit of acidic tartness, and with a moderate seed crunch. and if fully and properly ripe they also have a raspberry like flavor, as strong as 'Col de Dame' has. The green skin of it's figs are tender and sweet. It's figs are one notch better tasting than Adriatic JH.
This cultivar is very resistant to fruit dropping, to rain, to high humidity, to souring, and is split resistant, although it's inferior to 'Adriatic JH' when it comes to those things. It's figs dry on the tree if you let them.
'Vasilika Sika (VS)' is a very productive cultivar, and it crops young, usually within 2 to 3 years old.
'Vasilika Sika (VS)' is an early cropping cultivar, this cultivar requires a lot of sunlight, this cultivar might night not crop early enough for some short season climates, it crops earlier than 'Adriatic JH', than 'Battaglia Green', than 'Green Ischia', than 'Stella', than 'Paradiso Bronze', and than 'Hadoulis F White'.
'Vasilika Sika (VS)' is not the same as 'Vasilika Sika (BC)', 'Vasilika Sika (BC)' is also known as 'Dalmatie’.
'Vasilika Sika (VS)' is a notch better tasting than 'Dalmatie’, it ripens 2 to 3 weeks after 'Dalmatie’, and the necks of it's figs are usually shorter than that of the cultivar 'Dalmatie’, although a small percentage of it's figs do have long necks.
This fig cultivar is cold hardy down to at least 7 degrees Fahrenheit, without protection.
