Well friends I guess I owe everyone an official introduction also!
I was born and raised In Athens Greece but spent every Summer, as far back as I can remember,in a little cabin or summer home as we called it at a nearby beach called Artemis(as per the Goddess of the hunt ).
Athens is a concrete jungle so you won't find many figs there,except fon the occasional rare find like The Kesariani " that looks awesome! Artemis is a different story! Fig farms,vineyards ,and olive trees as far as your eye can see! We ate fresh figs from mid July to mid September and although back then they were just"figs" now I'm pretty sure they were mostly Vasilika Melissi.
Got married to Mrs Eleni K and moved to the big city in 89 . We lived in Flushing Queens for about 15 cold years and decided to head south in 2004 to visit friends for The holidays. A year later we were calling Atlanta home!
A couple of years past and one lovely day on the way home from work I spotted a familiar sight, it can't be! A fig tree in Ga? And then I saw another one and another, they were there the whole time. I was so caught up in my every day routine that I had forgotten ,I was passing by all those precious memories of an awesome childhood ! Simple but awesome. And that is how I reconnected with my most favorite fruit ever and desided to buy one and give it a try! That Saturday morning I and Mrs K found ourselves driving even further south towards TyTy Ga and You all know what that gets you! Not what You think You buy that's what! My Japanese Ishau turned out to be an LSU purple and the white Italian turned out to be a celest (we identified both thanks to You all and through your postings on this forum so thank you all very much for all the knowledge and info You share with all fig growers out there! All my figgies were bought and by now I have a LOT! Nothing too exotic but I love and appreciate every single one! I saved 2 nice sized Brown T(Celeste lol) from HD from certain death or so I thought and the following year 2 Brunswick also good size that were listed as celeste (go figure) but I knew right away that they were different ! I was hoping for Dalmatie after checking out a very cool article from Planet fig but after the first of 35 figs ripened I knew I had two very healthy Brunswick babies!
Oops,running out of space and You guys and gals out of patience! It is a privilege to be among an awesome group of people such as this! Chris Ukn no more!!!!! Thanks again.(special thanks to Waynea for the idea)