I've been holding out on you guys!  I've been picking figs and tasting figs and I'm just about sick of figs!!!!  Not really!  Here are a few pictures one day of picking some ripe figs.

Enjoy!

This one is Italian Honey.




Here is San Peitro from Joe.




This is LSU Black




Here is Emerald Strawberry -- Was not sweet at all!













Violet Sepor was the sweetiest fig this year!

Dennis those look great!

Great variety and quite a large bunch of figs to eat!! Excellent pics!! Time for some good fig recipes 

Thanks for the review of Emerald Strawberry.  In a few years, you'll know what is flaky and what isn't!

Shah, my climate changes from year to year!  Last year, it ES was outstanding!  Not the case this year.  Just taste like crap.  My Improved Brown Turkey figs taste better!

That's why I like the idea of Black Madeira so much...It's so consistently loved in so many different climates and almost every year!  The one tree I'd get on my knees to beg a spot in an overcrowded and mostly shady yard for.

Incidentally, how have the changes in the productivity of the Col de Dame variants gone?  Have your trees been getting more productive?

Of the figs that are as rich in taste as the Bordeaux variants (I don't care *too much* about sugar, 15-18 brix is fine) and generally manages fruit as big or larger than those Bordeaux variants (35g+), what is the most productive and reliable?

 jewels you get to eat.  How good was Willow Street?  It looks amazing.

Shah, in my climate here is what I found out:

Changes in productivity of Col de Dame variants?  Well I only have one, CDDG and my tree has not grown that much this year.  Maybe 6inches of growth.  The tree is loaded right now but more figs  than last year.  The figs won't ripen if we don't have a long summer.  Fall is trying to creep in, cool nights, hot and sunny days.  Time will tell.

As for VdB, I have 7 or 8 trees in large containers and one in my orchard.  They puts out a lot of figs but it also sucks water.  My Petite Negra has out grown both my VdB and Negronne.  I have one of each of these in the ground.  Negronne out performed them both, VdB came in second and PN just reached 8' this year and only 4 figs.  And I only fertilized my trees once this year.  We're suppose to have a hard winter this year and I was worried about my orchard trees.  So I only fertilzed them once.

My most productive trees are:

Atreano
Hardy Chicago
Kadota
LSU Hollier
Marva Sika
Stella
Improved Celeste
Tacoma Violet
Marseilles Black VS
Lyndhurst White
Negronne
Paradiso
LSU Black
Peter's Honey
Improved Brown Turkey
Salem White
LSU Gold
Salem Dark
Pananas Purple

Soni, Willow Stree is definately a keeper.  The figs are huge and very sweet  even if not fully ripe when picked.  But the figs do split when it rains.  Putting mine i a self watering pot next year.

Violet Sepor was the best to date.  It  is definately a keeper!

Nice, Dennis, and thanks for sharing

My Petite Negri figs are definitely not productive for their size, although, when you add both the breba and the main crop, it's acceptable.  It also likes to put the best and the biggest in the hardest to reach places up high, though that's probably a pruning issue as well as a vigor issue.  For the first fifteen years or so of their existence they were not productive at all, primarily because of an oak tree shadowing what was already an area limited in sunlight.  When the oak was taken down, it started fruiting.

Atreano and Galbun does not appeal to me.  187-25 sorta does, and the slow growth nature makes it more appealing, but the general difficulties in relatively new varieties to outperform oldies makes me cautious.  A kadota variant with a bit more flavor and size has some sex appeal.  Hollier has some strong consistency in making flavorsome honey figs in the South.  Heh, it's fun to plot even when nothing can come of it...  Still got one stick of 153-17 alive, but doing nothing.