Lattarula Italian Honey Fig - Very Sweet And Very Underrated
Вставка
- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- The Lattarula fig, also called the Italian Honey fig, is a very common fig that is readily available from many online nurseries. Because it is so common, few fig enthusiasts discuss this fig, and that is a real shame because it is an excellent fig when very ripe. When completely ripe and showing sugar spots all over, it is incredibly sweet. The figs also have the potential to grow quite large. Just make sure you do not pick this variety too early. It must be dead ripe bordering on overripe or the taste will be like unripened melon. Let this one get very soft and ugly for best results!
*********************************************************
VISIT MY AMAZON STOREFRONT FOR PRODUCTS I USE MOST OFTEN IN MY GARDEN*
www.amazon.com...
*********************************************************
VISIT MY MERCHANDISE STORE
shop.spreadshi...
*********************************************************
EQUIPMENT I MOST OFTEN USE IN MY GARDEN (INDIVIDUAL LINKS)*:
Miracle-Gro Soluble All Purpose Plant Food amzn.to/3qNPkXk
Miracle-Gro Soluble Bloom Booster Plant Food amzn.to/2GKYG0j
Miracle-Gro Soluble Tomato Plant Food amzn.to/2GDgJ8n
Jack's Fertilizer, 20-20-20, 25 lb. amzn.to/3AuNUFK
Southern Ag Liquid Copper Fungicide amzn.to/2HTCKRd
Southern Ag Natural Pyrethrin Concentrate amzn.to/2UHSNGE
Monterey Organic Spinosad Concentrate amzn.to/3qOU8f5
Safer Brand Caterpillar Killer (BT Concentrate) amzn.to/2SMXL8D
Cordless ULV Fogger Machine amzn.to/36e96Sl
Weed Barrier with UV Resistance amzn.to/3yp3MaJ
Organza Bags (Fig-size) amzn.to/3AyaMUz
Organza Bags (Tomato-size) amzn.to/36fy4Re
Injection Molded Nursery Pots amzn.to/3AucVAB
Heavy Duty Plant Grow Bags amzn.to/2UqvsgC
6.5 Inch Hand Pruner Pruning Shears amzn.to/3jHI1yL
Japanese Pruning Saw with Blade amzn.to/3wjpw6o
Double Tomato Hooks with Twine amzn.to/3Awptr9
String Trellis Tomato Support Clips amzn.to/3wiBjlB
Nylon Mason Line, 500FT amzn.to/3wd9cEo
Expandable Vinyl Garden Tape amzn.to/3jL7JCI
*********************************************************
SOCIAL MEDIA
Follow Me on TWITTER (@NCGardening) / ncgardening
Follow Me on INSTAGRAM / millennialgardener_nc
*********************************************************
ABOUT MY GARDEN
Location: Southeastern NC, Brunswick County (Wilmington area)
34.1°N Latitude
Zone 8A
*********************************************************
*As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
© The Millennial Gardener
Follow me on Twitter @NCGardening for garden updates and photos! twitter.com/NCGardening
I have one of these varieties and got my first few figs this year. Being a novice and rather impatient, I would tend to pick the fruit
while they were soft but not too soft. The flavor was sweet and refreshing, but nondescript. I watched your video and waited to see those brown sugar spots (which I might have mistaken for something else) and oh my! What a difference! The flavor now is like honey with caramel overtones...outstanding! I can't wait for next year's harvest when hopefully I'll have a lot more to enjoy. Thanks!
Rob Pelick the funny thing about figs is they taste best when they start getting ugly. An underripe fig tastes like watery cantaloupe. Not very appetizing. It is a bit of an art to harvest them. I’m glad you are getting the hang of it! Nothing beats a perfectly ripe fig.
After growing this Italian honey fig in a pot for 3 yrs, I finally have about 5 or 6 figs on it. Like you said, they are very soft.
I don't have sugar spots yet like you did, so I will not be tempted to pick them just yet. Thanks
Just bought one today! Super excited
This fig is supposed to have vanilla, did you taste it? How does the taste compare to Desert king and Kadota?
I just found out today from a Canada, GTA area grower that my White Marcellie fig is also called Lattarula or Italien honey. Im growing them in pots here in Kitchener Ontario and my wife is only in fawor of them, no other veriety she is fan off.
you are absolutely right
i grow 9 of theese indoors in 1- to 20 galon buckets and just ate 3 of my first crops and they are indeed so delicios that i never ever want to buy them in stores again
Just heavenly tsty and they were gathered as sticks and made them into cuttings 21 of them rooted some didn't survive the tranceplantation 2 were given away to a neighbor 2 were given to a charity center and the rest so i kept 7 and the other 2 i already had were moved inside under growinglight.
i really never will regret growing them from a cutting
Oh great!! Now I have to go out and get one of these fig trees!!😊
I know, I know, another one that's great. There are too many cool varieties of figs. Whatever you do, don't join Harvey's fig channel. He has 300+ varieties in his orchard and somebody challenged him to do a video of all of them. Every day for a week he has been posting 20+ videos of all these interesting kinds I've never heard of before, and they're all ripened in the perfect, rainless California sunshine. They are driving me nuts, I want them all!
Same here !!! Going to look for one after this video ends.
Found one :)
I’ve been watching your channel for several months, never thought I’d grow figs (have SO many other plants in zone 7a), but bought one of these figs today at a localish nursery in MD! So exciting to expand from berries and stone fruit trees 😊
im a day or two away from tasting my first latarulla. i thought may as well watch someone else eat one today.. that is where you come in lol. now i can wait thanks
Glad you enjoyed the video! Enjoy your first fig!
Nice figs man! Just wondering how/when you fertilize your tomatoes and also what camera do you use?
Thank you. I normally use a Sony a6000, but a screw popped out of the tripod, which caused the camera to fall and crack the battery door. I took it to an electronics repair store, but they damaged the entire main board trying to repair the door, so I don’t know if/when it’ll get repaired. It has things totally up in limbo and I may be stuck shooting awful phone videos for awhile 😭
@@TheMillennialGardener Oh that's too bad. Hopefully you can get your hands on another camera, but I know how expensive they are, owning a Canon 80D myself. I just watched your fig video where you show how you fertilize your figs and I really enjoyed it. You emphasized a lot of things I already knew but I did pick up some tips, and it is great to hear someone else's perspective on fertilizing. I have been really enjoying a lot of your other videos too like your tomato harvests and pruning videos. If you need a video idea, I would love to see some more tomato or pepper growing videos :)
LucasGrowsBest thanks. I’m afraid my camera woes are here to stay for awhile. It may take a month to rectify the problem if I need a new main board, and buying another one isn’t on the table now due to the costs.
I’ve been stuck on fig vids for awhile because the summer heat wrecks everything in my garden here. I have been tomato-less for awhile. Figs and eggplant are all that have survived this extremely hot summer. When temps cool down, hopefully my new tomato bed will start producing again. Right now, I have 100% flower drop, even trying to pollinate with an electric toothbrush, and septoria leaf spot pressure is high. Hopefully they will start producing in September. I have a very difficult climate for tomatoes.
@@TheMillennialGardener You're welcome. Your climate seems extremely different than mine. I am in Zone 5b and I harvest most of my tomatoes in late August and September. It's amazing to think that your tomatoes may be in the ground when there is snow on the ground where I live. Keep up the fig videos if that's all you can do. Cheers!
My summers are very long and hot. It's still in the mid-70's for lows here at night, and in the upper 80's for highs. It'll be like that into mid to late September.
Hi. In one of your videos I BELIEVE that i read that you say its ok to give your trees one last shot of liquid fertilizer at the end of Summer. I also think Miracle gro was mentioned.
If so, i have not been able to find miracle gro for fruit trees. Can i use miracle gro for tomatoes instead?
Its almost September here in PA and my fig BUSH has about a hundred figs the size of a quarter but has not grown much in a while.
I think that they may soon start to swell, but i want to give ut one last shot of some kind of liquid fertilizer. Not a slow release kind....whatever. u suggest is what i will do.
Love every one of your videos!!
Thanks
I made a very detailed fertilizing video for fig trees here that I recommend you watch:
ua-cam.com/video/msbnT2zhZIc/v-deo.html
I use MiracleGro Tomato as an all-purpose fertilizer because it is the most balanced. If you only stock on MG product, make it Tomato in my opinion.
I would advise against giving your trees a last shot to wind down the season. That could generate new growth, which will not lignify and may die back and rot during storage. I also made an in-depth video on how to wind down your fertilizing here:
ua-cam.com/video/m9P7Gvo_zK4/v-deo.html
The best thing you can do for your figs to ripen is to just be patient. It takes 90 days on average for a fig to grow and ripen. It's a really long process. I recommend doing nothing aside from applying a little organic 5-5-5 every other week and just being patient.
Another alternative is you could also try something like Seaweed Extract (Liquid Kelp), which is very low in N-P-K, but is like a multi-vitamin of micronutrients. But I'd still go for patience.
What is the bag for? Why do you have plastic wrap around the stems? thank you
I am a little confused with Peter's Honey, Lattarula and Kadota. They all look the same to me, especially peter's honey and Kadota. Is Kadota and Peter's honey the same fig? They both have same coloring and a big eye. which can sometimes lead to cracking
They are all different but some people mislabel them and sell them as the same.
Great!! That's a fig I would love to grow 🌟🍀🌟
It's a pretty easy one to find. Agristarts sells the tissue cultures. You can get them for a couple bucks from Burpee. That's where I got mine.
@@TheMillennialGardener Arrh, thanks! Burpee looks great! I am currently living on the South East Coast of England, UK. I was hoping to be planting some figs in Greece, so starting here, the Italian Honey Fig looks amazing!
Planet Feel Good oh I didn’t realize you were in the UK. I am not sure where you can source figs in Europe. A lot of these can’t be traded internationally due to customs laws. Maybe the laws are more relaxed trading within Europe? If so, you may want to look into someone like Pons in Mallorca. He has one of the largest fig collections on Earth and literally wrote the book on figs.
@@TheMillennialGardener Bless! Yes, I am in the UK at the moment. Big Thanks though for the top tips, and info, I can pass that onto a friend in California, sounds like a great resource. I have just been sprucing up a Fig Tree today in a big container my Dad, and Mum planted a while back, hoping some fresh super mix of compost and nutrients, will give a nice boost! It has 2 lovely figs on it, that are really looking great! Though a lot of leaf rust, and so tidied up a little, and added the fresh mix, hoping we can evolve it : ) Yes, there are plenty of figs in Europe, just need to figure out if the Italian Honey Fig goes by the same name, looks like a beauty! Big Thanks for all you're top tip videos, super appreciated!! : )
@@planetfeelgood17 thank you for watching!
why dont you just eat honey? U dont have to wait once a year..
Don't these lattarula require the fig wasp to pollinate?
They do not. They're a common fig.
Where did you buy your fig trees? Thanks
All over the place. Most are from Figbid. However, there is also Off The Beaten Path Nursery, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Burpee, Willsfigs, various trades off of Ourfigs...there are so many suppliers.
You can also look at Treesofjoy, Bayflora, Just Fruits And Exotics...some good starting points.
Where did you purchase your Italian honey?
It was from Burpee.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks!
@@will2913 you’re welcome.
In India how I get this free plants call me informed me please reply me
I'm not sure how you can get trees like this in India. Many of my trees are named different things in other countries, and many may not be available at all. You would need to find a local source, because we cannot send trees overseas.
I've been the caretaker of this variety of fig tree and the fig in the video is OVER RIPE and nasty.
Learning when to harvest figs takes some practice. An underripe fig is bland. An overripe fig can be sour and spoiled. The more humid and rainy your summers are, the worse the spoiling will become. When you get it perfectly ripe, it's an experience like no other.
@@TheMillennialGardenerit took me 1 season. They will go from a lime green color to a green yellow. when the bottoms are soft and no milk oozes out of the stem of the fruit after you pick it, then it's ripe.
That fig looks perfectly ripe and delicious