CaneDog FigGlog 2025

[SatanicFlatIron]

I follow the FigGlog with great interest! it's very nice to see the cuttings and the developing figs. It's funny to me that many figs have an Italian name... we've always eaten figs (when I was little I used to pull down the branches from a large black fig plant in my grandfather's garden with a hooked wooden stick) but we hadn't a naming culture as I imagine it is among modern cultivators today. We only talked about dimensions and colors... I remember a Calabrian friend who always talked about some very small, very sweet white figs (not green) that only grew in one place in the south. Unfortunately I've never tried them. The culture of seeking varieties must have had a lot of work to do in Italy and the mediterranean countries!
Anyway "i fichi sono fichi" (figs are cool), except when I was finding wasps inside

 

[NJChilehead]

I remember a Calabrian friend who always talked about some very small, very sweet white figs (not green) that only grew in one place in the south. Unfortunately I've never tried them. The culture of seeking varieties must have had a lot of work to do in Italy and the mediterranean countries!
Anyway "i fichi sono fichi" (figs are cool), except when I was finding wasps inside

I have a Calabrian friend who has two heirloom trees, one is a big honey-flavored fig that ripens to green (greenish-yellow, really) and is white inside with a pink blush. This one is very similar to figs that circulate here in the states that are just called Fico Bianco. The other also ripens to greenish-yellow but is reddish inside and very sweet with undertones of berry. He likes the bigger one, but I think the smaller one tastes better based on my limited exposure to both.

Regarding the wasp, a little extra protein!