Kiwibob graciously invited me to his home last night to sample some figs and this allowed me to say that I finally had a fresh fig. Here are some of the pictures.

From top left - 3 Lattarula, 3 Desert King + 1 on the right in the row below, 3 Vashon Violet (aka Brunswick), 1 Beall (small, medium colored fig), and the rest are Gillette.




I learned I like a little seed crunch. And overall, I like figs ;)

I'm sure kiwibob can pop in and offer any other technical info. He had them measured and weighed before we dug in.

Which one do you like best? 

Tough one. I think I need to eat maybe 10 more of each variety before making a call ;)

If I had to pick one off that sampling alone it would probably be lattarula. Gillette was similar in flavor and seed crunch but if memory serves right it was sweet at the bottom half but watery and lacking flavor in the top half. 

The Brunswick are freakishly big. Bob says the one we sampled didn't live up to its usual flavor expectation and if it had I probably would have crowned it king. 

The DK lacked seed crunch and it turns out I like that crunch. The flavor was good though. Not a lot of depth to the flavor, but I still enjoyed it. I look forward to my tree giving me a large bounty.

That's a very nice sampling to taste figs for the first time.