The Scoop on the Golden Rainbow Fig
Вставка
- Опубліковано 2 жов 2019
- Zone 7A - Greater Philadelphia
Website & Blog:
www.figboss.com/
Social Media:
/ rossraddi
/ rossraddi
/ rossraddi
The Fruit Talk! Podcast:
/ rossraddi
Support My Work!
Become a Patron: / rossraddi
Consulting Services: www.figboss.com/consulting
Cuttings & Plants for Sale!
Our Shop: www.figbid.com/Browse?Seller=...
Other important links:
The Spreadsheet: goo.gl/X6ye9e
Growing Fruit Trees Community: growingfruit.org/
Growing Fig Trees Community: www.ourfigs.com/
2018 Fig Variety Album: photos.app.goo.gl/a9MLNYaf3pq... - Навчання та стиль
Someone suggested that it tastes like honeydew. I agree that this fig is the closest fig to a melon that I've tried. Quite incredible actually. As I was saying at the very end. A big thanks to Ben, Eric and Robert for making this variety available.
hey ross i have a chicago fig but im thinking of replacing it, since you are also in zone 7, in your opinion if you have space for only one fig in the ground in zone 7a, whats the best one for flavor? not too worried about yeild, more flavor and surviving winters. i dont know if you can ship to canada but if you can id buy from you
@@connorwestgate Hey, not Ross, but I would think he'd recommend Azore's Dark for the best tasting in-ground variety in your zone.
@@connorwestgate I'm in zone 7, and Verte is vigorous, productive, and and amazingly rich, sweet, and jammy. A plus is that the outside is green, so it needs no bird netting. Deep strawberry interior and almost cottony soft and fluffy, flavorful skin. Very good and not much of the ant issues like some others. I wrap mine with burlap and mulch a couple feet high in late October or early November here in VA. I had one year that it didn't ripen before the cold, but this is the first year harvesting, and it's wonderful! One of my favorite all around, taste, vigor, reliability in terms of minimal to no spoilage with rain or fruit drop issues) of five trees. I have petite negri, LSU Purple (early crop is junk then it gets good), Celeste (very good as well, despite the negative press), and an unknown large, honey type fig.
@@kcl060 thanks, thats some good info, ill look into those varieties
A fig doesn't necessarily need to be the "best fig" on the market, some figs are early season some are mid and some late so having different figs will give you a longer fruiting window.
Fantastic review! I SO appreciate it! I had my doubts because our palate for figs sounds very similar--I'm definitely a rich, jammy, berry notes fig kind of girl. When I hear "refreshing" I'm like, yeah, wrong r word for me. I want rich, sweetest of the sweet, and I need to hear words like "jammy," and "syrupy." So glad I saw this! Thank you!
Ross the Fig Boss! Laying down for the facts.
Thanks for the review Ross. I just picked up yellow long neck a couple of weeks ago.
I'm looking forward to trying my first yellow long neck that I got a cutting from Harvey and planted in the ground last year, it might be ripe today...if not, very soon. I'll do a video on it.
Also known as Yellow Long Neck = Golden Rainbow = Golden Riverside. The only one that it is not the same is the Golden Riverside from UCD. Long Yellow, you can see it is very different, the leafs are mostly spades and some are 3 lobes, and the fruit is more alongated and smaller and the peduncle is much longer with not much of a neck.
Thanks for an honest review!
Thanks Ross great review 💕
If you get a chance to get to Ct. Loggis is an amazing place. Your jaw will hit the floor. When you go in you get a cardboard box to pick your plants to buy, they have a lot of greenhouses. Love my Hori Hori.
Hi Ross,
Maybe Yellow Long Neck can have a high potential for a commercial fig yard:
1 The fruit is clean, closed eye, nice color and smooth skin.
2 The fruit is big
3 Early and good production
4 Fruit have long stem and is easy to pick.
5 Vigor grow and still good fruitset
6 A lot of people like the taste
Because of vigor grow, properly good for a espalier training system. What means low labor cost for maintenance and fruit harvest.
Grafted on a slow growing roodstock like Black Madeira can give even more production.
How is the storing capacity/quality of this variety?
How is the hardiness?
I like your benifit list
Your remark about suitability to espalier
Your suggestion about grafting on to a slow growing fig like Black Madeira
I'm growing it in western Washington, zone 8a. Slightly less hardy than Chicago Hardy and Cravens Craving, both of which experienced no die-back and harden off very nicely and early. But its hardier than Violette de Solies, which I had the tips of the branches die off on (it seemed to grow very vigorously and didn't stop even in fall, which is probably a good part of why that happened. I think the soft mulchy soil its in may be why that one in particular grew so much). Sometimes, the terminal buds will freeze back but sometimes they don't. Perfectly viable in 8a but I wouldn't push it beyond 7b if you want it in a nice tree form. It doesn't seem to mind either the wet, the dry, or the heat at all, so overall pretty versatile other than its less than ideal hardiness.
Also, I haven't found it to be too too vigorous, but again its in kinda hard clay-y soil and I should probably feed it a bit more. Behaves pretty similar to Chicago Hardy with regards to how much length it adds on to branches each year, but because it likes to branch out so much the overall growth may be more. It also _really_ seems to want to grow in a bush form, always putting out side branches and not forming an obvious leader. I'll probably have to hack it back to get it into tree form. But that bodes _really_ well for espalier. I could see it making a wonderful espalier.
Is it the same with golden honey fig?
Thank you Ross for the honest review.
jjj ccc happy to help!
Would it be worth it to attempt to grow it in pheonix or would our heat torch it our family's favorite is the panache so far.
YLN and GR look almost identical. I was not able to taste them side by side but I did ripen them both. However, my Long Yellow was considerably different. I received my 2 Long Yellow from different but trusted sources and they fruited the same as one another but were not close to YLN or GR. There are a couple of others that have seen the same. I think Long Yellow is not the same. Leaves and figs are very different
Eric Durtschi very good to hear. Did you post photos of the differences on ourfigs?
That's what i want to know. I have a Yellow Longneck TC that I started this year, and was planning on getting a Long Yellow. But, until Richard's research comes to light, I do not knowif I would be wasting my time getting "the same": fig.
@@RossRaddi Let's hope.
@@RossRaddi I have posted them on different threads. I will do a full post with a comparison once I have the last of them ripe now that weather is cooler. Amy just said she tried them on the same day side by side, with her YLN tree being much more mature and the GR was way better in her experience that day. I really hoped to be able to try them on the same day but no luck.
I have two tissue culture yellow long neck. Same phenotype.
I knew it was too good to be true. People were paying an absolutely stupid amount of money for those cuttings. Thanks Ross!
Yea like $45
Greetings Mr Fig Boss, I have space for one dog in my yard and have access to cuttings from Peters honey fig tree, wondering if can give me your comparison between golden rainbow and peters honey. I am also interested in Golden rainbow cuttings if you have them on eBay or Amazon please let me know. Thank you
Thank you , Ross. Yes, fig taste is to each is own. I think there are more honey flavour figs than good berry flavoured ones.
Planning on adding YLN and LSU Hollier to my collection this upcoming year. How does the LY / YLN / GR etc compare to the LSU hollier flavor? Would like a little variety...
NM Nate hollier is quite the variation in terms of flavor and in my opinion easily a step higher.
@@RossRaddi Ok, definitely on my list for cuttings this year :)
What is your top 3 honey figs ?
Zaffiro.
Can you do a review/taste test on all figs mentioned at the end of video?
Is it possible that you were sent a yellow long neck by mistake...mislabeled as a golden rainbow?
Give it a couple years to mature. Then you judge all fruit.
That is pretty color
Valerie Escabi it is beautiful.
that looks like a tasty fig
Delicious
I have one Ross golden rainbow many people call this fig the golden riverside is a big mess with the name
Carlos Rivera that it is.
2 thumbs down = 2 people who bought $300 Golden Rainbow cuttings
Is that the price $300 ?
@@bobbrawley2612 I've seen it go for that or more at auction.
And now it only gets 46 at auction on figbid.
Tastes like super ripe Honeydew melon to me.
enscribe yeah. Closest fig to an actual melon I think.
Too bad your YLN didn't ripen at the same time.
💖
u look like a hollywood actor....Chris evans brother
I was thinking Rob McElhenney 😀
It’s incredible how this strain is so expensive, Yellow Long Neck is better to me than this fig.
The Gooch I never taste the yellow long neck you said is better than the golden rainbow?
@@carlosrivera4660 same fig different name