Azores Dark Tree - One of My FAVORITES

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Variety being offered: Azores Dark -- DOES NOT Require Pollination

Handling Instructions: This tree is in a 1g sized pot and is an air layer that was just taken from Mother tree. While this tree is hardened off to my outdoor conditions, yours may be drastically different. I suggest taking the time to slowly adjust it to your sunlight hours/intensity, humidity and your overall environment upon arrival. After a couple days... up pot it carefully, water it in and feed well. Watch this video for full instructions: https://youtu.be/8J_QNoGgwJU

The tree photographed is the tree that you will receive. I will only sell the strongest and healthiest trees that I currently have available. I am shipping the following Monday after the auction ends. I will ship to anywhere in the US. Just know that on rare occasions that trees going into California or Hawaii can be inspected. In that scenario, your tree will most likely be held over the weekend and delivered the following week.

Thank you & feel free to ask me any questions.

Varietal Info: This fig is among the best in my collection. Azores Dark is an early and consistent bearer with similar characteristics to Hardy Chicago and the other 100+ named figs that you could place under that umbrella, but I've found Azores Dark to be superior to the others that I've grown. In 2021 I tried 6 more that are supposed to be better tasting and it's still the better tasting fig. The flavor can take a few years to mature, but when it does, you'll be awfully surprised by how sticky, thick and flavorful it is. Azores Dark has a virtually nonexistent thin skin. The texture of the combination of the skin and pith (the exterior of the pulp) is really what separates this fig from the others. The whole fig has a more pleasant eating experience because the skin and pith combine super well with the pulp. Some figs give you the impression that you're eating two different things. The skin and the pulp. Azores Dark is of a solid through and through pleasing gooey thick jam. The flavor is a lot like fig, strawberry and concord grape jam in one. Waking up in my greenhouse in mid March, this fig sets a heavy crop without pinching in early April and ripens its first main crop July 1st. It can also ripen a second main crop in September/October after the tree resumes growth. In the ground here, the figs produce well, early, without a lot of light requirements and they dry easily on the tree. Both of my in ground trees also survived our 6F low this winter. I'm expecting them both to produce huge numbers of figs starting August 1st with a few breba a month earlier.