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Hello Hoosier...

So you're thinking Olympian might be English Brown Turkey? Interesting. Haven't grown any EBT, so I can't compare. However I did get to taste a few main-crop figs off my two year old, tissue-cultured Olympian/Wellspring Gdns. Ate them in late August. It's a nice fig....no better or worse than many other varieties. Hoping figs get better as trees age a little.

Frank

Zone-7/Bronx,NYC

I think there is good chance Frank. My Olympian is also a TC but got FMV so I am not going to keep it. Have a couple similar unknowns that are healthy though.

What! FMV....how? Sorry to hear and read this. I thought TC trees were scrubbed and were supposed to be virus free. Don't blame you for giving it the heave-ho. Who wants to deal with diseased/compromised trees in our short-season, cooler, climates?

So...this past summer was the first year that I got to taste Olympian figs. Like I said, I hope the figs improve as the trees age. BTW, in June-2015, I planted four TC Olympian trees down in Florida, as a gift for some friends. They told me they just ate three figs off the 6 month old trees. Crazy!

If this "new" variety turns out to be EBT, that's fine with me. Time will tell, as more fig fans start to grow it.

Frank

Fig bud mites, the plant was healthy when I got it. I hope that the pictures I shared of the leaf spot symptoms will help others avoid having to make such hard decisions.

Hoos...

Not a good thing to see in print. Fig Bud Mites implicated as a vector for spreading FMV! Yech! Then, trees growing in our colder climate are not exempt?

Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed. So far none of my trees are symptomatic, and I hope they stay that way.

Happy Holidays...no....MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Frank (hate PC).

They can overwinter in greenhouses, heated storage areas, on refrigerated cuttings, or young plants kept inside. Maybe even wrapping trees would be enough to protect mites in a very mild winter like we are having. There is no info available about how cold it has to be and for how long for them to not survive...

If you are keeping a close eye on your leaves and they look like they should all you need to worry about is bringing fig mites in on a new tree or cuttings in the future.