http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-farmers-market-online-20130809,0,2074265.story

Good find. I ate one this morning-awesome, bright red jammy interior.

seems to go well with what i have heard before.. it's look, smell, then taste. Paneche looks great, so more people whill go after it. and from what i have heard, it also tastes good. so it should do well.

Thanks for the article find.  Karp tends to glamorize things a bit too much, IMO, but Panache is a great fig.  Interesting comment about the grower thinking caprification would be a problem.  I placed some caprifigs among mine and haven't seen any Panache split but several Vista did explode.

Panache is good tasting specially that it looks great. However I doubt it is the best tasting fig as they described. 

I've never heard a bad thing about it tastewise, but the look is the hook. If anyone ever comes up with a plaid fig, it'll sell better than the so-called less attractive figs, too. Some folks are more concerned with appearance than the other qualities. Panache is surely prettier on the plate than Smith, but what about flavor?

I can see how the Panachee will draw people in to sampling of fig. However once drawn into the fig world they will soon be wanting other varieties that have better flavor. 

The other fig that's making some noise - at least with one grower I know - is the 143-36 or Emerald Strawberry.

I was thinking about this article this AM while enjoying the 3 Rhonde de Bordeaux figs I fought the wasps for and I am still amazed at how good RdB is compared to the figs I owned just 3 years ago.

That this "novelty" fig - as beautiful as it is - will be considered better in flavor then all these other figs we bust our humps to acquire seems doubtful.

It's funny, I never gave much thought to this fig because of it's description in Condit's book "The Fig", where he describes it this way:

"The fruit is of rather poor quality, but trees are grown widely in home gardens as a horticultural curiosity or conversation piece."

Is there any chance that these are different figs?  Just grown in different climates/soils?  Maybe Condit got a bad one?

Panachee is one of those figs that really requires a hot, dry, Mediterranean climate to ripen well.  It's a stripped version of either col de dame or bourjasotte.

For all intents and purposes, even Brown Turkeys are capable of delivering awesome figs with the right weather and sun.  The trick here is to get figs that produce well above average figs in most circumstances and plenty of them.  For example, Emerald Strawberry mentioned above, apparently has a juvenile phase (much like LSU Purple and it's blandness) where it's very acid and low producing.  Takes awhile, depending on where you are, to get the very sweet fruit it can have.

Panache is a great-tasting fig here.  The great Panache I had last year are what pushed me from breaking my 2008 prediction that I doubted I'd ever have more than a couple dozen fig trees.  I had some more great ones today with my dad who remarked how good they were.

One can grow Panache in pot in full sun sitting on cement and ripen it to perfection just like Black Madeira here near Chicago.

Called forcing - it works but like all figs its up to the "person" eating it that dictates weather
its a good tasting a fig , not what others say nor what i think.

Here Panache tasted ok and skin was kind of rubbery and on the thick side but ripened perfect .
On the other side of the coin Black Maderia also ripens perfect forcing it and
tasted not good but Excellent and have pictures that i have shown in past seasons of both.

But again its not what i think as we are all different.
Thanks for the link Michael.

I shouldn't have read the article because now I'm interested in the Col de Senora Blanca they mentioned.     But what is the correct spelling panache, panachee, and now panach'ee?

Pamaché pronounced Pa Na Sheh

Baud has it in his book as Panachée

Baud doesn't know French.
j/k

here are mine .....

One thing that I was a little surprised to read in that article was that Panache was not a productive variety. I have a lot of figs on my tree.

I know this list is old (from at least '06) but it does list P. Baud's top 25 figs. I don't know what criteria were used and I couldn't move the ripening chart along with the names, but I thought it might be interesting to see that Panachee is on the list.

Madeleine Des Deux Saisons - 
Brunswick - 
Sultane - 
Grise De Saint Jean
Dauphine
Dalmatie
Tena
Doree (Goutte D'OR)
Negronne
Longue D'Aout
Figue De Marseilles
Abicou
Brown Turkey
Noire De Caromb
Pastiliere
Rhonde De Bordeaux
Marseillaise
Bellone
Nefiach
Sucrette
*Panachee
Noire De Barbentane
Sucre Vert
Col De Dame

i think that baud list requires ideal weather condition where those figs are "native". we know that Pastiliere drops most of its figs. some members mentioned that in their climate Madeleine Des Deux Saisons will split and spoil. and he listed Brown Turkey...

Pete,
I think that's the whole point. Where you and I live Brunswick isn't very popular either. If you look at the figs he has on that list it's kind of surprising because some of us wouldn't think of a lot of those varieties as being that great. There's a couple on there I've never heard of as well as there being a few I think of as inferior figs. The point being that where Baud grows his figs the conditions must make a real difference so maybe Panachee is really great in the area of California where they are growing it.

Conditions do seem to make a big difference. I have a Bourjasotte Grise that I got from Gene Hosey that is ripening fruit yet he says this variety always dropped it's fruit for him so much so that he considered it good only for practicing grafting. He only lived 2 hours away from me when he wrote this.

Another 2 hours in the other direction Thomas Jefferson grew Madelaine Des Deux Saisons (Angelique) as one of his 3 main fig varieties so it can't be that bad (I have 3 and should get figs next year so I'll have a better idea).

I've heard people complain about St Jerome splitting easily yet I have four and haven't seen a split fig on them (yet anyway - knock on wood). Anyway it seems we look at a lot of info about our varieties that isn't accurate because it isn't generated from a source with conditions similar to our own.

it basically goes to show what everyone's been saying.. have to try it in your own yard to see if it will give you good figs.

Thanks for posting the article about this fig.   I appreciate the opportunity to read about "figs in the news" while not always searching for new stuff myself.

Ingevald

Ive been growing Panachee for about 4 years now in the same field as my other figs.  The bush is growing wonderfully in fact one of my best looking fig trees HOWEVER I have yet to get a single fig to even start on the bush?  Its in full sun all day I'm in South Carolina zone 7b/8a the bush is about 6' tall very healthy and couldn't ask for better growth just does not make any figs.  Anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?  I also grow desert king, Violette de Bordeaux, turkey, Texas giant blue and an unknown that I got from an old abandoned farm house.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Aaron, are you fertilizing it?  If so, I'd suggest cutting nitrogen altogether since you're getting a lot of growth already and it may just be focusing energy on growth instead of fruit.  That's just a guess at something to consider.  I've hardly fertilized mine at all and have tremendous growth (6' so far this year) but also a lot of fruit.