Spotting the Breba crop and Main crop!

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Spotting the Breba crop and Main crop!

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It can be rather confusing to tell the Breba crop from the Main crop. A lot of people's fig trees have very few if any Breba figs.

Two things can cause this, your fig tree(s) might not form much if any Breba figs, and your fig tree(s) might be aborting much if not all of it's Breba figs.

Breba figs form on the old hard wood of fig trees, which is the part that started out the new season hard wood, and gray. That old hard wood has no leaves, although leaves can fall off, and if you are not paying enough attention, a fallen off leaf can fool you in to thinking that a Main crop fig is a Breba fig.

Old hard wood should have no green tone to it. It seems like cold weather can outright prevent Breba figs from forming all together, if that happens to a fig tree, then that fig tree just skips the Breba crop, and grows the Main crop all by it's self.

Here is a Breba fig that formed on to the old hard wood of our in ground 'Dominick' fig tree, I ate that fig months after I planted it, that fig tree was potted and sheltered for the winter, then planted in the spring, that was the most tasty fig to ever come off of that tree. All the other figs from that tree were main crop.
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The following figs are from the Main crop, they formed on the wood that started the season as green.
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These are Main crop figs on our 'Unknown Carini' fig tree.
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This is a Main crop fig on a potted 'Sultane' fig tree. Yes that wood was green just months earlier, it's new hard wood.
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