As time went on they produced fruit and I discovered the wonder of a hot from the sun, drippy, gooey fig. At that time I had no clue what a fig was. His lot was also the local baseball and football field. He planted 3 of them in the lot and asked me to help insure other kids did not mess with them. He was going to eventually build a house on the lot so he started fig cuttings from the giant fig tree in his old houses yard. He let me at 13 years old drive his huge Mercury Monterey for the 80 mile round trip. Every other week end in the summer we went to the MS coast to cut the grass on his summer place. Charlie” was my coconspirator to fun times and taught me so much about the real world. The lot was owned by our landlady’s brother who became the grandfather I never had. We had a vacant lot next to the house we rented. Until I joined the fig forums I had never realized how rare growing up with figs was in the USA. Mild and super sweet, not too much seed crunch and soft skin.Ī bakers dozen for breakfast last summer. I believe the Celeste is the perfect fig for a new introduction to fresh figs.
Once past this stage they will forever be an abundant supplier of small sugar bombs. I believe the roots of Celeste do not initially keep up with the vegetative growth for a while when they are juveniles and first crops. How would you like to see your first crop grow to pinkie finger size then all fall to the ground! And even worse it will probably happen again the next year………Why? Celeste is infamous for this. You'll get fruit with only one plant!”Ĭeleste problems are few, it does have one fault that makes new growers nuts. In many cases, you may still want to plant pollinating partners to increase the size of your crops, but with self-pollinating varieties doing so is optional. Does not do well in CA, does do well in CA. One said they were not good in the SW and another raved about how good they were in the SW. One had a growing map all the way to Maine. Like all figs the ads from sellers are mostly fairy tales. It is also listed as Malta, Small Brown, Celeste, Celestial, Sugar, Blue Celeste, Celeste Violette in Condit’s work. It has many synonyms and in the USA Celeste is the most popular name. The Celeste fig plant is normally easy to root and inexpensive to purchase. It became and remains the most popular fig in the LA and MS area. Celeste came to Virginia about 1670 and spread south with population movement. It is generally accepted as true and where the most common name of “Malta” came from. That of course is not proof of origin because we don’t know for sure they were not planted in Malta from another source. It is not known what the origin of the Celeste is, some figs on the island of Malta were found to be the same. I’ll skip Condit’s detailed description and summarized his work on the Celeste. The Celeste Fig have been talked about lately and as it is one of my favorites and growing up with 3 Celeste trees in our yard made me inquisitive on what I could find out a while back.
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