I got it from Adam at Flying Fox Fruits. I had it labeled as Thai Dwarf mulberry, not sure if the mixup was mine or his, probably mine. It took me probably six months to realize this wasn't a mulberry
. He sent me some fig cuttings too, but none I had labeled took. I didn't know they should be rooted in bags or water, but somehow this one took in soil in June. It grew extremely vigorously He sent Sbayi, VdB, and Improved Celeste, but he wasn't sure on the IDs. This somewhat resembles Improved Celeste, which is supposed to change a lot with caprification, but Improved Celeste usually has less leaf lobation, and the uncaprified fruits are a bit small to be Improved Celeste. Sbayi looks to have red flesh even without caprification.
I got a few cuttings off figbid, but none of them rooted whether in soil or in bags with moist vermiculite or perlite. Rot set in after a few months. You're probably thinking of figs4fun, an old(?) forum. The wasp is probably Blastophaga psenes, native to the Mediterranean, as is Ficus carica, with which it coevolved. There are some established populations in California. Basically where figs come up as weeds there are wasps. Figs produce one or both crops with or without pollination. Most named varieiteis are common type, which produce both breba and main crops either way.
