Ok, so for my palate and to my eye, there's nothing better than the green/deep red full pulp combo. They are stunning and delicious and wow... I understand the guy Dieseler only likes dark skinned figs, i must say i cannot understand that at all! I've been traveling recently and was able to buy the quintessential version of this fig, and eat all I wanted for the first time ever. Of course when I asked what type it was, they looked at me like I was an idiot and said "it's a white fig". Oh, say no more! So I've been seized upon to plant some winners in this category, I am limited for space and must keep it to 5. I need uno mas por favor. Bonus points if it is great even when not super hot out. Also valued is tenderness of skin, tough and rubbery is no fun at all. Thanks!

Adriatic JH (very famous around these parts)
Paradiso Gene
Battaglia Green
Desert King (I'm by the beach... cooler summers and all that)
And #5? What is your fav? Feel free to share even if it is one of the four above.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Just a misc photo, Cool table huh?

Your right Forrest, theres something about that combination of colors of Green & Red that looks amazing. I like all figs but for my eye green/red is tops!

 Pete

So jealous with the picture you posted. Can't wait till next year when mine start making some fruit. 

Is that your Adriatic?


Chris

How about Verdal Longue?

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Verdal-Longue-3719330

Or Emerald Strawberry?

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Emerald-Strawberry-UCR-14336-5952001

No question--those are gorgeous figs! Wish I could help, but I'll leave the recommendations to to those with experience in your climate.

Stella and/or Vasilika Sika.

Dark red interior is always a win, despite what's on the outside.  JH Adriatic is a favorite, but i'm in progress of espalier'ing other green/red flesh figs for trial ;)

Hey thanks very much for the responses. Chris, I wish those were from my Adriatic! No that pic is from a google image search :(

Gina, thanks for the suggestions. VL looks very nice, but the heavy fmv worries me a bit. Tell me where the big healthy VL tree in So Cal is.
Emerald Straw looks ok, not quite as red as I've been wishing for.

Heres another pic that really shows the tender lusciousness I seek in a great fig. Super plump, soft and yielding and you can almost sense that deep ruby interior, can you not? Reading that last sentence back... It's official, I've gone off the deep end :)

My first JH Adriatic:  http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1269971317&postcount=19

This fig changed my mind.  It didn't have the richness of my favorite dark figs, but it was literally like biting into a dark berry jam.  Loved it, and all four people that tasted this one fruit loved it as well. 

Complete thread here: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5461744

This is one of the figs everyone should have in their collection, alongside Negronne/VdB, Hardy Chicago.  I could live the rest of my life with those three and probably be happy.  I'm only hoping that Verte, Strawberry and Calvert are half as good.

I think you have great ones there.  Alma and Hollier are favorites of some although I'm not sure they're exactly the color you're looking for.  Why not go for variety and get a dark fig with red pulp.  Vista, Violette de Bordeaux and Kathleen Black are good choices for that.

Red and Green = Christmas!  Fun to open those little yummy packages!
Suzi

You got a add Strawberry and Stella to that list.  Both are very sweet with bright red centers.  And maybe Verte and Calvert!  I got 2 Verte trees and the figs are ripening hopefully this week!  Calvert at UCD is awesome.

Wow thanks Jason. I'm definitely planting JH this fall! 

Hey Bob, I like all figs! As long as they are ripe of course :) I love the dark ones too, and I have a great VdB. I cannot recommend the Dave Wilson strain highly enough, vigor taste and productivity are all A+

Hi Dennis, are those figs Stella and strawberry? I too think Calvert looks awesome! Where are you guys getting your "Vertes" from?

Thanks

Desert king looks great to me!

I stand corrected.  In my pics above are Strawberry and Paradiso.  First pic, Strawberry on left...oozing honey from eye....Paradiso on right.  On other 2 pics, Strawberry on top, Paradiso on bottom.  I have 3 Vertes.  One from Rolling River and 2 from Petal from the Past.  My 3 Vertes are ripening now.

JH Adriatic also oozes from the eye, and the 'candy' it makes is aweeesssoommmmeeee

Dennis, I am super curious to know about your Vertes. Maybe post a topic about them? If you feel like it.

Jason, I just wish I wasnt looking at a 3-4 year waiting game for my JH to be sized up and putting out the gems! I have only heard great things about it from everyone. 

Why anyone would decide a fig is bad just because it is beautiful is beyond me. I love the grass green figs with red meat. I have a bunch of them and I PM'ed you about what I have. Right now I'm mixing mainly Almas and Hardy Chicagos with Conadria EL's and dang the taste is great!
The dark figs are great, but so are the green ones. To forsake the greenie is the same as saying there's no white wine worth drinking. We don't live in a black and white world.
Extremism is never right.
Don't worry about what others say (including me) just find the figs you like and then spread the word and eventually we'll all have super incredible fig varieties that just make us smile every morning and then we will have won.
mgginva

"Extremism is never right." 

Except ;) ....."Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
     Barry Goldwater

The guy Forrest types
I understand the guy Dieseler only likes dark skinned figs, i must say i cannot understand that at all!

<< Maybe ask first >> ?



Not really true. I "choose" to grow Dark Types.
There are some good white types of course <<cough>> and to some that do not know i have sampled my share of them along with the dark types .


I also will continue to poke "fun" at the white types as always.

I previously read a lot of good things about Battaglia Green for my area (mid-atlantic) and have had it on my list. But I detect a lot of enthusiasm here for JH Adriatic.  If one had to choose between these two for the mid-atlantic/northeast which would you choose and why (cold tolerance, productivity, flavor, etc)?  Or maybe there is another in this class of figs that is better than these two?  Finally, I'm curious about how this class of figs (green outside, red inside) compares to another highly touted green fig: Atreano.

Thanks!

AS of this moment, those 3 are by far my favorite for the ones I have tasted:

Battaglia Green
JH Adriatic
Atreano


First 2 are a little more forgiving on ripeness, still sweet even if a bit underripe. Atreano needs to be overripe to be great. People have accused it of being bland and tasting like a cucumber. That is because it is picked too early. It holds on well so it will not fall off.

Paradiso Gene is another excellent variety as is La Goccia d'oro. This one is not as wide spread but its breba are some of the best tasting figs I have personally had.

Though the beauty is a sight to behold, a fig of green skin and scarlet flesh is not the end or beginning of tongue titallation.

Forrest, checkout Bass website. He has some middle eastern figs that looks very yummy.

By the way, there are 2 strains of Atreano. One from Rolling River and the other one Jon labelled as "OR"(Original). It seems the "OR" is better in taste(subjective).

Hey sorry Dieseler, my mistake. I shouldn't have called you out like that anyway.

Hi Paul, you can be sure if I go for atreano it'll be an OR, not RR. That one letter makes a world of difference, it seems!

And I want to say thanks to everyone who posted in this topic, I learned a lot. 

See you

Thats fine Forrest.

Your looking for # 5 i see perhaps consider a dark type .  ; )

DaydreamFigs, there are many green out, red in.  Panachee, Verde, Adriatic, and so many more!  A good fig is a good fig.  But a Brown Turkey is not in that group!

Suzi