SugarSodPops From Zone 8
The only minor knock on this fig for the PNW is that it drops its main crop. The brebas are worth every bit of the rest. It’s simply one of the gold standard figs for our region.
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The only minor knock on this fig for the PNW is that it drops its main crop. The brebas are worth every bit of the rest. It’s simply one of the gold standard figs for our region.
Desert King is grown in Seattle, WA PNW it is our favorite. Regardless of a cool short summer, it will ripen, unlike other varieties which require long hot summer. This is reliable with large fruit. It is sweet pink flesh and green soft & thin skin. I love the size and its flavor. The tree is productive it doesn’t split until its overly ripen and it fragile to transportation at that point. Desert King may be common here but it is King for a reason. If you had to grow just one fig and you are in PNW then you must grow a Desert King.
In Watsonville it produces both breba and main crops but the breba is far superior in size and quality. For maximum breba production it must be pruned differently than other figs, and ideally right after breba are done in late July.
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