A few years ago, I received a fig tree as a gift from a fellow fruit grower.
It is supposed to be a UCR 143-36 Emerald Strawberry.
It's had a hard time getting established, with gophers eating all the roots back to the trunk just about every year, as well as root-knot nematodes wrecking whatever the gophers haven't.
I've noticed that this year it did not try to produce a breba crop, something that this variety is known for. My thought is that it could be a reverted variant of the panache fig, one that is known to only produce main crop figs.
It's the tree's third year in the ground, and it's been quite stunted by lack of feeder roots, so maybe this is the reason that the tree skipped a crop.
It's not a loss for me (if it's a panache), as I had previously planted a panache in the same spot, but if I am sharing cuttings, I would like to be able to correctly ID the variety.
tl:dr
Is lack of a breba crop during a single year indicative of a variety?