Lsu Purple Fig Review

My lsu tiger is very productive for me and has a sweet honey flavor my best lsu fig so far.

Lsu purple fig review. A medium size long turbinate glossy reddish to dark purple fig that has light amber to light strawberry colored pulp and a closed eye. You can enjoy figs from april through december indoors or out. I m lucky to get to taste 2 figs a year on it. This fig was introduced in 1991 by lsu.

The mild flavor is good and the fruit has high sugar content. Grow glossy purple fruit enjoyed fresh or dried. Lsu purple is a mid season fig beginning to ripen a few weeks after improved celeste with violette de bordeaux and brooklyn white. Though unlike violette and brooklyn white lsu purple produces no breba crop six weeks prior it remains a beautiful flavorful fig that can produce in short seasons.

Write a review buy any 3 fruit or berry plants save 20 fig tree that is vigorous with above average resistance to leaf diseases. Tree is a vigorous upright grower. Most fig trees take four to five years to reach full maturity and set fruit but the lsu purple fig is capable of setting small crops of figs in its second or third year. Fruit is medium sized with a mild flavor high sugar content and white flesh.

Plus with our bigger sizes you could get fruit as soon as the very first growing season. My lsu gold is slow to grow and is stingy at production. Lsu purple produces a fair amount of sweet figs. The pulp is light amber to light red when ripe.

A heavy main crop is produced in july followed by a later crop that often lasts into december. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Introduced in 1991 by the louisiana agricultural experiment station lsu purple is ideal for usda zones 9 and warmer and is particularly suited to hot humid areas. I ve about had it with that tree and might send it to fig heaven.