Here's a Fig I started to get rid of because it split so much, even sometimes when it hadn't rain. My Wife and I made some Fig Jam out of about 15 of these and it was Outstanding, so now we  keeping the tree just for Jam making! When you make Jam it doesn't hurt for the Figs to be watery. This Fig is probably the sweetest I have out of about 50 varieties, but nothing else...:)

Frank from Bama


 
 

Looks good, how many figs do you have! Ive seen you with 10 figs at least

50 varieties Wow that's amazing... All of your pictures look great. Hope if all goes as planned I will be trying my first fresh fig next year..

Besides the leafs it really looks like a khurtmani.

Love ne some jam. Strawberry fig us the best. Ponchatoula strawberries with fresh figs. Very good.

Here in the steamy south, I started to do the same thing (get rid of my Brunswicks). However, the Brunswick has several redeeming qualities and I have kept two trees.  When it is dry, the Brunswick hangs in there and still gives me a large fig for canning or jam.  I like to pick them before they are dead ripe for jam. I can pretty much count on having a fig at every node. Some are the size of a small pear. It produces over a long period of time - right up through a hard frost. Its one of the first I can pick and definitely the last variety producing at the end of the season. The biggest negative I can see is the splitting in wetter years and the fact it attracts wasps. The next biggest problem is that it puts up a huge amount of new stems every year and requires a lot of pruning (my trees are in ground). There are much nicer varieties to grow in our climate so what do with all the prunings becomes a question.

There is not much of a demand for this variety despite the fact it has pleasant sort of melony flavor rather than being strictly a honey or sugar flavored fig. If anyone has a hankering for Brunswicks, send me a msg. Cuttings free for postage.  Trees will be pruned sometime in Nov. as they have yet to go dormant.

Nice fig Frank, I still have about a dozen jars of jam left and a dozen have been consumed since last year. But, I must confess they were made with store bought figs which were not of a quality to be consumed straight from the package unless you were desperate. I am with Richie, all 24 jars were strawberry fig jam, great combination.

These Figs make outstanding Fig Jam! :)

Great fig, thanks for posting Frank and congrats on your decision to keep it. Like Marianna said.... I have three and love them.

Looks good is this the same fig as rattlesnake island?

Great pics again, Frank!

I love those leaves.

Brunswick is truly an excellent fig for the us in the South!  The figs are very rich tasting and very sweet! 

Nice job Frank!  I've never seen one with a red center like yours.  What have your daily temperatures been over the past 2 weeks?  Have you guys had much rain? 

Frank, the fig looks great and if the rest are similar I think you got a keeper. For me Brunswick is productive, cold tolerant and has survived into the low single digits without die-back. Surprisingly I haven't had any splitting problems. Your leaves and fruit look a little different than mine but variations of a cultivar can be expected.
I wonder if there are several sports of Brunswick floating around based on reports of splitting and cold tolerance and shape/size. There are more names for this than the notorious Brown Turkey. In addition to Dalmatian, Madonna, Magnolia UC Davis in their genetic testing list Brunswick, Rattlesnake Island, Capitola Long, Red Italian, and the French fig Doree as the same fig. On the F4F varieties list, Castle Kennedy is also listed and some report it's the same as Vashon Violet.
Enjoy the jam and in case of rain use an umbrella :).  

Thanks Frank!  I'm looking forward to the days were I had one large Brunswick tree with lots of figs!  When I get another tree, I'm going to let it live inside a SWP inside my new greenhouse.  I should be able to control the air moisture and keep it from splitting.  My neighbor down the street from me has one.  He got a cutting from a friend and just stuck it in the ground and I'd be darn if that tree did not strike!  After 2 years in the ground, it was over 6 feet tall until our 5 degree weather hit it.  It died back to the ground but came back.  But he got no figs this year.