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It's a good time of year for harvesting figs!  They are like candy in this heat!

Joe,

This is hilarious. I don't know if you are joking or literally that is all you are eating for meals. From your videos I can tell you really like figs!

OMG, those are beautiful, Joe!    A plate full of those every day would sure to keep one regular, eh.....

Wow, it reminds me of the 60+ mangoes I purchased last year, all the same week, several different varieties from 4 different growers. I ate all the following week, all ripened about the same time. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Oh well, its mango season again and I will have to try all the new varieties so........ here goes. I know I will probably be crucified for saying this but....mangoes is my favorite fruit. Sorry fig friends.

I am so jealous! I think I am still 2 weeks from my first few figs, and even then it will be another couple weeks before I get a plateful at a time. I think I could live on fresh fig.

That will make for a great day!!

Hi FrozenJoe,
Nice set of figs. That is my target at growing figs: plates full of figs!

Enigma,
From memory, LSU Purple and Hardy Chicago. Don't you have the "FrozenJoe Channel" ?

Waynea

Where do u get your mangoes? I bought two flats of Indian kesar mangoes in June, they were incredibly fragrant.

"Waynea

Where do u get your mangoes? I bought two flats of Indian kesar mangoes in June, they were incredibly fragrant."

Hi Rafael, I purchase from 4 main sources in the Palm Beach area. Walter & Verna Zill (Zill's Mangos) and Truly Tropical both in Boynton Beach, Alex(Tropical Acre Farms) Palm Beach and Excalibur Fruit trees Lake Worth.... all within 20 minutes of one another. Unbelievable selection of mangos. Some will ship.

This is good site to visit:   http://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/ 

Most of the newer varieties are completely fiberless and have some very interesting and different taste.

I have about 30 young (2-4 year old) trees and about 14 different varieties. In about 2-4 years I will more than enough.

Check the above site and you will find several growers that ship. Here is a sample of varieties:
For $2 per pound, we will have:

• Valencia Pride
• Southern Blush
• Duncan
• Cogshall
• Florigon
• Van Dyke
• Zill
• Rosa
• Haden
• Madame Francis
• fresh Carrie drops

• Nam Doc Mai
• Pram Kai Mea
• Carrie
• Gary
• Zill Indo-Chinese
• Alphonso
• Bombay
• Bailey's Marvel
• Edward
• Lemon Meringue

Love those mangos!

Wow Joe,

You got a fantastic nutrition plan! ;-)

As jdsfrance mentioned: that's my goal too: a plate loaded with delicious figs!

It is sooooooooooo nice this time of year. The only fruit I miss is Lychee. Check out the tropical fruit forum and you will be amazed.

Hi everyone.  Sorry I didn't get back to this thread sooner.  The varieties in the photo are Hardy Chicago, Joe's Jersey, VdB, LSU Purple, and Barnisotte.  I just made a Black Madeira video.  I'm waiting for it to upload to Youtube.

Very nice, Joe! How are your LSU Purples, and how old is the tree? My first one of the season ripened the other day, and it was pretty good--but last year there was almost no flavor. My tree was started from a sucker in 2011.

Hi Ken,

This is the first year that most of the figs on my LSU Purple fig taste good.  They are very sweet.  They are jammy.  They have a raisin-like flavor.  I ordered that tree from Edible Landscaping in the fall of 2010.  It has been in ground at this house since the spring of 2011.  LSU Purple has improved every year.  It has always been very productive and vigorous.  Now the figs are good too.

Great haul!  My figs are finally swelling up and I had my greatest haul last couple of days too.  I think the thunderstorm really helped everything along.   I also have Ken's LSU Purple (Thanks again Ken).  Figs were so good this year.   

Tonight's dessert.

   

Man I'm so jealous, I am beginning if I will ever have a plateful of figs at the same time.  Between the birds and the 0 degree winter last year it seems almost impossible.

Wow. Those look great.