Hi Barb.

To me, that Unknown Owensboro has a pretty good berry flavor. Hardy Chicago is similar but doesn't seems to be as full flavored as the former.

The Acciano has somewhat of a grapey flavor, especially in the skin of the fruit.

Remember, this is all based on how they seem to taste to ME. Could be different based on individual palette.  

New to growing figs. I just received a hardy Chicago fig, and will wait till spring to put it out. I actually had some figs on it, and they are slowly ripening. I would love to have some fig cuttings, but would need something very cold hardy, as they would be in pots, and spend the winter in an unheated garage.

Hi Leander.

Is your garage attached to the house?  What agricultural zone are you in?

Many folks have great success growing fig trees in pots & then storing them in an unheated attached garage for the winter. Some people grow figs and enjoy fruit even up to zone 5 using this method. Most any variety can be successfully grown this way.

So really, it's just up to you as to which varieties you want to try and how many pots your spouse will allow you to over-winter in the garage :-) .

By the way I'm in zone 6 and I grow 99% of my trees outside in the ground, year round.

Yes, my garage is attached to the house. I believe I'm in zone 5a, but its really close to 4b. I guess I can leave them in pots, and sink in the ground for the growing season, and bring the into the garage for the winter. I imagine they would still have to be some of the hardier varieties.

Yes, you may be in a pretty cold region but I think you could still have success by growing in pots. No need to bury the pots in summer. There's been much discussion around the forum on how to do this. It wouldn't hurt to do some searching here to learn some more.

If you had a basement, it may work even better than the attached garage but I still think you could make the garage work. Storing the potted fig trees next to the interior wall would be the first thing to consider. I recall others doing this in very cold regions and even using some sort of insulation to cover the trees once inside the garage.

Granted, it would help to have the more cold hardy varieties. And/Or to have varieties that are known to produce fruit under less than ideal conditions.

Hope this helps.....

No basement unfortunately. I will put most in the garage for the winter, and leave a few Chicago Hardy in the ground, well mulched, to see how they do. I think I saw one named Brunswick, that stated it was very cold hardy. May have to try that one too. I will also plant one on the south side of my house to see how it does.

Leander.

Mulch is how I protect my in-ground trees every year. It's amazing how just a few inches of mulch can keep the wood from freezing.

There are at least two factors at work that protect the trees when using mulch.
1) The actual insulation from the material covering the tree.
2) When organic material decomposes it generates heat.
Granted there isn't much decomposition going on when it's cold but I'm sure there is still a slow process going on underneath the surface of the mulch.

I cut my in-ground trees back to about 10"-18" then cover as much of the exposed wood as I can by piling mulch on top. No matter how cold of a winter we might get here in zone 6, the wood below the mulch has never died.

Yes, Brunswick may be one of the most cold hardy varieties. I found a Brunswick variant here in west KY that I've personally observed to survive after some brief lows of +4F. Years with a lot of snow seem to kill it back more so than dips into single digits under dry conditions.

I have two variants of Brunswick. One I call Haikel and the other Zimmerman. Both based on names of the family they come from. Haikel originates form Btegrine, Lebanon and Zimmerman came from a nursery in TN. I believe the Haikel is the most cold hardy and best tasting. It does have a bit of an open eye that the ants like to get in but a perfectly ripe fruit has a peach-like taste IMO.

Thanks for all of the great info! I did plant one Chicago Hardy this summer, and it just started to grow a few new leaves before all fell off, and it went dormant. After the leaves fell off I put a good 5 inches of mulch around it. I sure hope it was established enough to come back next year.

I'd gladly take the mother GM-125C.  A mature caprifig would help me a lot.  I sent you an email.  Get to it when you can  :)

Trying to insert or attach pictures...... having trouble getting them accepted here even after re-sizing them.

Thank you Bill, cuttings are excellent, arrived in great shape.
Thank you,
Joe

Looks like Kerry over on the other forum also had a nice pic of the ripe fruit of LSU Scott's Yellow here: 
https://www.ourfigs.com/forum/figs-home/115902-lsu-scott-s-yellow-experts-needed

I also just listed Scott's Yellow cuttings on eBay with pics of some unripe fruit from my trees. The pictures at least show the general shape of the fruit beginning to develop: 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/252666759041?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

My cuttings arrived yesterday. They were in great shape and of high quality, thank you Sir!

I'm now out of GM 175.

I am down to 4 pcs each left of VdS & Preto.

Thanks Bill, cuttings arrived in great shape. Nice size good job packing. Thanks again.

Awesome Dave. Glad to hear it.

I was just noticing that Nero 600m is synonymous with Valle Calda:
http://www.planetfig.com/cultivars/fcveng8595.html

I'll have to see what else has been said about that here. 

Thank you to all who have purchased cuttings from me so far.

I've decided to reduce the prices on all remaining cuttings I have for sale this season. I'm doing so in hopes of selling things off more quickly. I have a growing list of repairs I need to make around my homestead & it's keeping me quite busy.

For one such example, I'm finishing re-building my well house roof today. It's getting into the teens F again tonight so I better get a move on so I don't have frozen pipes by morning :-O! 

I have an excess of cuttings available of certain varieties. If anyone might be interested in larger quantity discounts please email me to discuss this possible option.

Thank you all very much.

Anyone seeing this thread for the first time, please see post #1 for varieties available and prices per cutting.

I will be coming back often to make adjustments or deletions as I run out.

A few adjustments made to the 'cuttings available' list in post #1.

I am also offering cuttings on eBay under the username "fruitnut".

New varieties will be added to my "for sale" list in January. 

Your varieties and cuttings are all great! Thank you for making this offer available to forum members as well as through eBay. Any predictive insight into what you may have coming up in January so that we might have opportunity to plan and triage space?   :-)

Hey tsparozi.

The cuttings I have coming in Jan will be from a friend. Can't recall all that he has but if memory serves me here are a few of them:
- Italian Honey
- Algerian
- Afghan -E
- Armenian (watts)
- Paris Purple (Paris TN)
- Unknown purple fig from Owensboro, KY

Several others that I can't recall at the moment.

Thank you, Bill! Will be on the lookout for your notification... Merry Christmas to you and yours and best wishes for a healthy, happy, prosperous and FRUITFUL 2017 New Year!

Good cuttings still available.