I live up in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada (Aka: Polar Bear Capital Of The World.)
Cool summers, martime subarctic climate, Long daylight hours in spring & summer.
Says Zone 2b, but I'd suspect more of a 1b... :-)
I'd guess the closest comparison might be if there were any Alaskan Fig growers on here...
I have a semi-heated garage that hovers around freezing, where I could overwinter potted fig trees.

Any suggestions? (besides moving, haha, I love where I live.)

Desert King will have a short season.  I can't access climactic data for your location but if your summer highs are typically in the 60s (so far this month I see highs from 53 to 70) you may need a greenhouse to ripen any figs.  If you have a greenhouse with heat and lights you could ripen any fig you want.

Summer highs regularly in the mid 70's with occasional dips into the 50's and  peaks into the 80's. I'll eventually have a 3 season greenhouse, but the trees will always be potted, and overwinter inside, regardless of needing a greenhouse or not.
Thanks for the suggestion/response!

Hello, I'm Steve and this is my first post.
I'm in Georgia, West of Atlanta near Alabama.

As for as figs, I have 2 celeste, 2 black mission, 2 brown turkey, 2 kadota, one alma, and one green isschia.

I've had fruit from the mission, turkey, alma, and celeste.
Production from most to least:
turkey, alma, mission, celeste

That may change when the mission and celeste get big as the turkey and alma.

Eating a turkey followed by an alma makes the alma taste bland.
Same for mission followed by turkey or celeste followed by mission.

I've bought from Edible Landscaping, TYTY, Willis, Home Depot, Arbor Day Foundation, Lowes, Johnson Nursery in Elijay, Isons near Griffin, Craigs List, and various ebay stores. I'm leaving out a lot of places.

I try to buy local because I can get larger plants for less money. The only problems I have had are with TYTY and Willis with items other than figs. I've physically been to TYTY. There are some folks on craigs in the Tifton area that I've bought from.

There is a nursery across the street from Lowes in Chamblee that I bought my celeste plants from because I could not find them anywhere else locally and they just happened to have a couple.

The green isschia came from Edible Landscaping, the alma and a turkey came from Johnson Nursery, and the rest came from Home Depot at various times of the year.

There is Pixies Garden on the East side of Atlanta near Conyers. She advertises on ebay and craigs but I haven't been there.

I shop in this order by proximity:
Home Depot (limited to what's in stock. forget ordering)
Lowes
Ison's (family business based around muscadines, scuppernongs)
Johnson Nursery (limited variety and usually says if in stock, nice road trip)
craigs
Ebay
Edible (good quality, nice folks, harder to find items, ship anytime with soil)

I'll likely get LSU gold, purple, and negronne this year.

I also have various bananas, various jujubes, appricots (do great here), pawpaws, apples, various peaches, autumn olive, thorny olive, black mission olive, goji berries, elderberries, persimmons, russion pommegranate, kiwi, grapes, muscadines, scupernongs, mulberries, che, serviceberry, seabuckthorn, mayhaw, mexican avocado, pineapple guava, I'm probably leaving something out. I've not yet had fruit from most of those and they've all been in the ground a couple years except for the bananas. No green house. No, it's not all doing great!

I don't have a huge place, but everything is spaced out and I'll need to be trimming back regularly if I want to keep it all. If I find I've planted something that isn't working out, I'll pull it and have plenty left over.



 

Hello this is Brian from Social Circle GA 30655 about 45 miles east of Atlanta.
I have a 7 year old Brown Turkey, a 5 year old Celeste and a four year old Alma. All are in the ground in my Organic Apple Orchard. Brown Turkey produces 2 crops every year all the way to frost. Every sweet if picked right. Celeste not as productive but taste good when fully ripe. Alma still coming into it's own. I got the first two from Bill at Johnson's Nursery in East Ellijay. Great man very smart. I would love to have some Rasberry Latte cuttings to try in the spring. Any help on where & how would be Great Thanks

Greetings;  Does anyone have any experience with varieties that have done well in the Southwest?  We have hot long summers, sandy alkaline soil, and not much rain in southern NM.  We get cold 30degrees and less in the winter.   Brown turkey seems to fairly well here.   Thanks, 

wow, I must say, this is a very informative thread, I am learning so much.

I am in zone 7b and live in Madison, SC 29693. We are surrounded by mountains and our temps can range from zone 8 to zone 6b depending on the year.

Celeste - reliably produces 2 crops. Seems to do well no matter whether the weather is dry or fig trees are wearing swim fins. Trees require little protection in winter
LSU Purple - grows like a weed and is as reliable as Celeste so far.
Brunswick/Magnolia - hardy. Good in years with normal or subnormal rainfall.  Better suited for a drier climate. Had some souring this year. Hardy in ground.

Growing well for others in my area but new to my yard: 2nd strain of Celeste, English and a supposed Southern Brown Turkey, Hardy Chicago, Mission Black.

hi, i'm newbie to this forum...
from indonesia
this one is my favourite and best variety in my tropical clmate with sandy soil
Khurtmani.

regards
wish list : any LSU fig, Smith, Hollier, Red Lebanese

I have a limited list as I haven't been growing figs for very long, but what's grown well for me in Zone 6a/zip 07853:

Sicilian
Lattarula
Brown Turkey
Peter's Honey

This year, trying Negronne, Vista, White Genoa to see how well they do. I have a Hardy Chicago going into year 2 that seems to be doing well.

I have tried Verte twice and failed with both of them. Also failed with a Celeste. I'm not sure if that was my management or another reason.

The Lattarula is in year 3, but hasn't fruited yet. Hopefully, this year. I took a lot of cuttings from the tree, it's a strong grower.

"What a great forum this is really impressed with all the information and advise."

Az85712
Brown turkey
Black mission
Katoda
Black jack
Conadria fig

I am in 94541, East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area.  I have the following in containers:
Peter's Honey
Black Mission
Lattarula
LSU Purple
Violetta De Bordeaux
Desert King
Olympian
Petite Nigra

Looking for:  Abruzzi

I live In zone 7A/zip 38468
any figs that grow best here or not recommended

NC 27540

Black Mission
Brown Turkey
Kadota
Desert King (still verifying DK as correct plant)

Last summer was our coldest ever, both in terms of low daytime highs and night time lows.  Many figs started to grow in May, went dormant at the end of June and started to grow again in mid to late August.  Most of my plants never swelled a fig.  Almost all of those that did ripen figs were insipid.  One high end plant produced figs that tasted like tire rubber.

The two standouts that were able to make great figs in that weather were Bass' Salem Dark and Hardy Chicago.  There was an unknown light fig from Bass in its first full summer that also made one outstanding fig.

30 miles NE of Atlanta GA !
Celeste( 3 -5 years old, great choice for my zone, extremely cold Hardy sweet figs)
Brunswick( only 2 out of about 30 figs split, very good variety over all)
Black mission(same as above Celeste but due to fruit color suffered big loses from birds- hornets)
LSU Purple(in ground strong grower but not cold Hardy enough for last winter, great production awesome figs but maybe a better choice further south)
Negronne( one year old potted seams to love it here,got 6 figs from it)
Peters honey( imo best choice for my zone, same age as Negronne gave me 17 late very good figs this first year, biggest fig of the bunch along with Brunswick!)
Chicago hardy( two small potted trees from cuttings good growth very good production not crazy with taste but I m sure the will get better with age!)
By the way I try to be as true with my description as I can according to my observations,but I love all my trees equaly;)! Also in Imo patience is a a big must when growing figs, same tree can give very diferent results from year to year! Too many factors at play! Thanks for Your time!

Harshas,
How big a tree is it? Perhaps grafts of multiple varieties?

I agree with greenfig and suggest you start a new thread as that will bring you a lot more advise.

Hi again.  I've updated this based on the 2014 season.  Not sure if it's best to just update the entry that I posted a couple of years ago, or just add new ones here every year or two.  So I guess I'm sort of doing both... that is, I'm updating the original posting (and dating the updated info), but providing a pointer here as a new posting.  I'm in central NY state, zone 5a, near Binghamton, NY, zip code 13760.  (Not so sure the zip code is all that helpful though... they're too small an area small for effective searching).

Here's an update based on the 2014 season.  Out of approximately 60 varieties,
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1277110460&postcount=183

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Hey Michael. Good to hear from you again and thanks very much for the update. Have a great growing season.

I live in a Mediterranean climate.  Fig Heaven.  Not all figs do so well here.  What?  Nope! 

VdB, the darling of many, sucks here.  It is a cool weather fig.  My favorites here are LSU Gold, Black Mission, Mary Lane Seedless, Kadota, Verte, Bourjasotte Gris, Adriatic, Hardy Chicago which is weird since this is a hot climate and it doesn't go dormant, Flanders is one of those OMG., Alma is such a sweet tasty thing, Paradiso, and the list goes on.  Can't wait to taste Norman's Yellow and Native de Argentile AKA Hative de Argentile AKA AKA .....

Suzi

AKA awesome?

I think we need to split this thread into Geographical areas like NE, NW, SE, SW, MW, MS... I guess that won't work.  Too many options.