There are many different figs, but these just happened to be the first 7 varieties that I picked this morning and they just screamed, variety, shape, color, size, and anything else.

Left to right, top to bottom, St. Anthony 0559, Melanzana 0496, Eve's Black Cherry 0457, Nuhurskii 0703, Cold de Dame FN 0011 (2), Flanders DW 0281, Violette Dauphine 0033.

This is part of the "fun" that is figs.



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Beautiful photo, Jon.  Dave Wilson's Flanders looks nothing like mine, weird.

Harvey, I have 3 different Flanders, and one has a shorter neck, but otherwise they are very close. The Dave Wilson ones have really shined this season, being on the driveway and getting more heat. They do need to be a bit ugly before fully ripe. This one needed another day or two.

How about the taste jon?what is the winner ?

Jon, I see in the photos at http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_Flanders.html that you have many that look like mine.  I never see any that look all yellow.  I wonder if that's due to weather differences or something else.

There are pretty typical of mine:



I got mine from Don Polensky somewhere about 10 years ago.

This year they have been very yellowish, in past years they have had more grey and maybe a little purplish. Welcome to the "fun" that is figs. I picked to Eve's today, and one was green with red inside, and the second would have easily been mistaken for a Flanders - yellow with yellow/pink/honey inside.

Interesting.  My Flanders look the same every year (for about 10 years now).  Is there anything related to the weather that you can identify that might cause yours to be yellow some of the time?

I had just visited Rolling River Nursery's site a couple of days ago (had been on the waiting list for a rare persimmon which I ordered before they sold out again) and I noticed that their description of Flanders was pretty nice and pretty much fits my experience: http://www.rollingrivernursery.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=408&category_id=20&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26

Flame seedless grapes, as I understand it, were bred from Tokay grapes which Lodi, CA (25 miles east of me) was once famous for.  In 1979 I was told by someone whose family had been growing Tokay grapes for 80 years.  He shared how they would lose their color if we had periods of warm dry nights but how they would regain color quickly in just a couple of nights when cooler nights with dew returned (typical weather here in summer and fall is for nights to be in the mid to low 60s with moderate dew).  I wonder if anything similar occurs in some figs.

jon, there has been some talk about Eve's Black Cherry being something else. so what does it taste like and what do you think it is?

Nice pic and excellent show of variety.

A beautiful sight.  Could you cut and paste a few of those beauties into the Forum heading ?   Like you dont have enough to do already :-)

Beauty and, ...

... so where is the Beast? ...

Harvey, I am sure soil, fertilizer, pH, weather, etc. all have an affect. Sucrette has been both a honey type and a berry type, with corresponding flavor and color,in the same year from the same tree.

dust, Sorry, This is about beauty, not flavor. All but the Nuhurskii are quite tasty, though this particular Melanzana was very nasty.

Bullet, There was supposedly a possible mix-up in some of the Eve's Black Cherry cuttings. So there might be two different figs out there with that name. I first assumed that this one was a wrong one because I was expecting a dark fig. But, as I understand it, it is a light colored fig with a "black cherry" taste. So, it seems t be the real deal. Didn't quite get the "black cherry" flavor, yet, but I taste all my figs by number, not name, so don't know till after I try them, which were the winners. This one has been a stand out every time.

Soni, I could, but have no plans, right now. ;-))

Beauty is on the interior as well Jon your slipping or eating too many paleface figs . ; )

Martin, so what are you saying, beauty in more than skin deep?