what FUN Jon:
Stephen here @ 72701:

WHITE RUSSIAN
PETIT NEGRI (thanks Ottawan!)

AIN'T SEEING  A N Y  THING FROM:
Celeste (I have 4 flavours)
Hardy Chicago (s/b great location: so. wall of slab house: my ONLY actual tree)
White TX Everbearing--not very hardy as well.
Panache ?
to be continued...
Kalamata not hardy, lost both in snowy '09-'10 winter while others survived, no problem.
Haven't given up on:
Black Jack
Black Mission
Brown Turkey

Stephen
I know a fig called "Petit Negri" but I have not heard of a fig called "Petit Negronne". So is it Petit Negri or Negronne?

Hello from central Pa. I'm new to posting on here but have been reading the "board" for a year. I have a Brown Turkey, good taste, erattic bearer, that has been inground for 20 years+. Other recent, yet to taste, in ground figs are Hardy Chicago, Gino's, Paradiso and Dark Portuguese, also potted figs are: Italian Golden Honey, Celeste, Black Triano, Petite Negri, Golden Celeste and VDB. Jon

Current best-tasting and most productive figs


Col de Dame (blanc)  Stands up to rain, intense berry taste, late bearing.

Hardy Chicago and Sal's EL   Good taste, productive, and stand up to rain fairly well

Black Madeira   Unique taste, late bearing, heavy bearing, splits in rain, but still tastes good.

Violette de Bordeaux  Good raspberry taste, shy bearer

Peter's Honey  Mainly for the brebas, taste mostly just sweet, occasionally cream soda taste

Although I can't speak for many varieties, I guess I can certainly include black mission. It's had a long and dependable history in Tucson, dating back to when Father Kino brought them to the region. I picked a batch today and every single one looks perfect. In my yard, at least, they never split, mold, or go sour.

GOOD CATCH Ottawan!
Petit Negri they are.
[def. not Negronne]

I think.

I am in zone 5B.

This was a good summer.  Many days in the 80s and a couple of weeks in the 90s but...night time temps are often in the 50s and sometimes in the 40s.

Most of my trees are still quite young, so it is hard to say.  I'm sure my list will change next year when some of my trees are older.   So far, I have had good luck with the following:

1.  Hardy Chicago - Bears young.  Ripens before anything else I have and ripens everything.  Doesn't mind rain or cold nights.
2.  Marseilles VS Black - Bears young. Starts to ripen right behind HC
3.  Sal's - Gene's Strain.  Same as above
4.  Violette de Bordeaux - Ripens late, but doesn't seem to mind cold nights and rain. Compact and productive
5.  I'll have a better idea next year.

C.J.

Zone 6b South NJ(Egg Harbor Twp)
1. Negronne
2. Hardy Chicago
3. Celeste
4. Ronde De Bordeaux
5. Italian Honey

6. Marseilles VS

Hello,

Toronto,ON

Well this is my second season growing figs so most plants are still very young but anyhow here is my best so far in Order.

1- Paradiso " Bronze " From Dusan
2-Italian Fig " Colasanti Farms' Dark Fig
3-Black Mission "Monrovia"
4-Hardy Chicago " Richter's Herbs "
5-English Brown Turkey " Local "

I'm east of San Jose, Ca 95127, sunset zone 16.
So far:
Lampiera
Bourjassotte Gris
Desert King

I get 2 crops from both the lampiera and King, with the breba being pretty bla and the 2nd crop outstanding. Lampiera is much richer in flavor than King.

Stella - looks very promising, but This is the 1st year fruiting for it.

Buffalo,NY Zone 5b

Many are in my trial-so looking towards next Summer to see which ones perform and how well. I am just as addicted as the rest of you. lol

For Summer of 2010:

Hardy Chicago- got about 100 off each tree/bush. Very rich and super sweet and still ripening with decent taste in cooler temps with rain.

Unknown Mission variant- Very similar to Hardy Chicago, some are still ripening and the flavor is good.

English Brown Turkey- Super sweet but not very figgie, also still ripening it's fruit with decent flavor.

Excell- did great until the rains started, the figs are still ripening but each one
gets a split.

Flanders- some are ripening right now, so In a couple more days or so, I will sample it.

Violet de Bordeau- wow!! Very tasty and still ripening the last few. These were
super tasting.

Also have LSU Gold, LSU Purple, Conadria, Magnolia, Texas Blue Giant, Black Madiera, Tarentella, White Triana, Stella and Atreano that each made a few figs, but I don' t know if they will ripen

Many more varieties are just babies, so this will change next season.

Eve

Hi, I'm new to  fig growing, thanks everyone for the info. Could anyone recommend a fig for zone 7a? 

goldie,

i'm in zone 7 too. i just started getting fig trees, so i have no clue what is good. but from what i have read, violette de bordeaux (negronne) seems to be good for just about everywhere, so i got one of that and two others.

pete

hello! guys,i am from jiangsu province of China; i hope you can give me some advises for planting figs. I don't know what kind  of figs fit  here! so please help me!

Alex, welcome to the forum. It will be interesting to see how figs grow in your area. I checked the internet for information about your weather and if the chart below is correct you would need figs that hold up well cool damp weather perhaps somewhat like our Northwest coast.  Good luck and have fun.

"gene"

thank you!

Zone 4b SW Wisconsin

All my figs are in 5 gallon buckets, come out of the basement on May 15 & go dormant around Oct 20 or so.  Figs are outside, not in a greenhouse.

My favorite is Conadria which does not ripen every year but when it does they size up nicely.

LSU Celeste Improved
Hardy Chicago (some years the figs are much smaller than usual)
LSU Gold
Brown Turkey

I am North Carolina  28602

Marseilles VS
Sal's EL
Hardy Chicago
LSU Improved Celeste
Hunt

This list is, of course, subject to change ;)

Hi All,

I am on San Francisco Peninsula - on the border of zones 9/10 and Sunset zones 15/17.  Summers seem to be getting cooler and windier here the last couple of years, with more frequent afternoon fog than we used to have (we used to never see much).  Daytime highs rarely over 80.  Winter low of 29. 

The figs I have (all a few years old), have not ripened.  They include:  Brown Turkey, White Genoa, Tiger, and Kadota.  I think the problem is not enough heat - but maybe it's the varieties I've planted?  Are there some that would do better without a long, hot summer?

No doubt the problem is your cultivars,that are not suited to cool,short  Sommer.
Try:Gino's fig,Desert King(breba),Marseilles vs Blk,or Blue Celeste.

I am in zone 7B - reporting from Charlotte, NC

We had a long summer.  We had early high temps in April and long hot days in July and August.  Looking forward to next year.  Here were my best:

Ronde de Bourdeaux - truly amazing.....wife's favorite
Black Madeira - unique flavor
Dark Portuguese
Gino's - heavy bearer and super fantastic taste
Pananas Purple
Hardy Chicago - super sweet
VdB - another super sweet
Petit Negra
Golden Atreano - BOOM!  What a sweet fig
Sal's
Green Greek - darkest...red sweeter than strawberries
Malta Black
O'Rourke - sweet sugar fig
Scilian Black - darkest fig in collection but very good.
Parasido - one of the best tasting green fig with red center
Strawberry - another-- best tasting green fig with red center
Blue Celeste
Celeste
Red Taco - beautiful red sweet fig

thanks,

Hi Dennis:What do you mean when you say Green Greek:sweeter than strawberry:?
Do you mean Strawberry with a lot of white artificial,sugar,around them,or just strawberry.
I have never eat a sweet strawberry bought from store or otherwise grown by me ,here in NJ.
They grow beautiful large but sour.
In the store they are huge beautifull and sour.
Now I was eating some wild strowberry in the Transilvanian mountains,and those were sweet and flavorfull.
I even grew alpine wild strauberry,suposelly from France,here in NJ,a Fragaria species,with the same result:Sour,when ripe.
I concluded is the climate:too hot in the Sommer for sweet strawberry. 

Hi Herman2, what I mean is Greek Greek figs are sweeter than small wild strawberries or farm strawberries.  Strawberries in our local grocer are watered down and mass produced for money.  But if you go to local farms and pick your own, they taste sweet and juicy.  To me, Green Greek figs are sweeter than those wild strawberries.  You guys gotta try Green Greek figs.  Excellent tasting fig!

Hi! Dallas Texas area--"These are in ground"

Most hearty are:
Texas Everbearing (crazy productive and extremely fast growing)
Danny's Delight ( still young but put figs on as soon as it was planted grows
                        fast)
Celeste ( dwarf like in my yard with good amount of great figs)
Unknown Pastilier ( fast growth instant figs)

Not a good fit:
Bournabat ( The one I wanted the MOST tried and tried and it died anyway
                 :((  )
Panache ( 2 years little growth and no figs ever)

The rest of my figs are in pots :)
The temp here is Very hot summers, warm rainy fall, from 70's to 20's in the winter, and 30's to 80's spring.. with extreme flux at any given time.