That's great Suzi! I have a database that I am working on which includes my rating scale. I'm an IT guy. Databases are my specialty. In my database, I included the riping dates from members of this forum from 2007.

Impressive, Dennis!  from 2007?  Wow!  And Barry, we are both looking for a new house with acreage for our fig trees!  Good luck to you!

Suzi

Dennis, this is intriguing.  Would love to see your spreadsheet when you get it set up! 

Suzi

A little diversion now.  Salmon on the plank BBQ and Football!! :-))

Suzi, you are looking, I'm dreaming. I'd have to hit the lottery which I am planning to do by the way lol. Dennis, that is a very impressive list. I'd sure love to see your set up!!  

Tim, I only have 3 inground trees, gave a couple to neighbors too. Sal's Corleone is excellent for me, a late producer, my tree has been fruiting since the beginning of September and is still loaded with figs, Latarolla was planted last year and produced very nicely this year, still has some fruit left. Put Kathleens' Black in this spring, it hasn't grown a whole lot, I suppose it is setting roots mostly this year. My neighbor has  Brooklyn White and it is doing great for him anotehr neighbor has Egg Harbor which is Marseilles I believe and it is growing very well JH Adriatic and VDB will be trialed by other neighbors next season. I am so squeezed for room, but I am gonna plant a couple Pawpaw in  the area where I am growing veggies, maybe squeeze another fig too. As I am not getting any younger and don't have the energy to weed that much ground anymore. I'm just gonna plant tees and mulch it.

Dennis, how old is your Blk Italian ? Is it from Durio ? Surprise that Excel scored so high. Overhere it is a late variant and heading to fig heaven.

Black Madeira ripened yesterday, and although it was smaller and uglier than the BMNL mentioned above, the taste was clearly better. I'll be looking forward to seeing how it does next year.

My two best:

Blanche de Deux Saisons
Mary Lane Seedless

mgg

Finally, Six days without rain,and I had the best tasting fruits this Summer,from:
Malta Black
Stella
Maltese Falcon
Kathleen Black
Marseilles black vs
Atreano
Jh Adriatic
If weather keeps dry,I will have ,the same high quality from other figs,that are middle and late cultivars,but so far,those listed ,had wonderful properly ripe fruits today.and I got them before any other creature did.
Here is a pix of Adriano + Stella,Fruits ,taken today.

Just ate a patadiso bronze vs taking the lead on late greenish figs

Dan:I agree Paradiso Bronze is a special exquisite tasting.
This conclusion is after the fruits I had in the previous years.
My problem is ,it doesn't want to ripe this Summer.
It must have been a warmer climate in your yard plus ,you might have ,more exposure to sun,for your plants compared with mine.

Best tasting of first time fruiting were Len, Neri, Turquoise, Lisa.

To my surprise, our best tasting fig here for the 2012 growing season was, Danny's Delight.

It beat out Marseilles Black VS, Hardy Hartford, Hardy Chicago Sal's EL, Bayernfeige Violetta, and Brooklyn White. I gave it a 10. But, one has to keep in mind although I gave it a number 10, I have never tasted any figs, other then cold hardy type figs.

My wife's sister and her husband stopped in two days after I picked Danny' Delight. He was born and raised in the south. He surprised me, by stating they were among the best figs he had ever tasted.

Danny's Delight started ripening it's main crop around the end of the third week of September here. It was earlier then Marseilles Black, and all others.

It started raining here the last week of September and then rained every other day, if not every day for three weeks. Just when all the figs were ripening. So we lost 90% of our main crop figs. Danny's delight was the only fig to ripen early enough to deliver some figs before everything else was totally saturated with water.

Then on top of all the rain, we got hit with an early freeze. it came three weeks earlier then  usual.

Now I think I know why it was named Danny's Delight

Bob - Zone 5b/6a Connecticut

Wish list: Valle Negra

Tough question for me because I like all the figs. But here is few: VdB, Sal`s Corleone, Celeste, Ficazzana......

Best fig i ever had:

Hadoulis F White


Hadoulis F Kos


Sicilian Unknown