Just wanted to say hi. I'm currently growing a Hardy Chicago that i rescued from an interior office and was wondering if any other Hudson valley growers were here and what varieties they might recommend. I've already started a new plant from a cutting this spring and passed it along to a friend. Again hello and thanks everyone

Hello. They are out there. I just don't know why they aren't responding.

Hey! I am in Putnam County....  I don't have any specific recommendations as I am as new to figs as most others starting out. Sure, I have acquired a few fig varieties over the last 12 months but I am mostly just growing these new varieties out so until I have good hard evidence in hand, I would not try to recommend any specific fig to anyone. There are boatloads of fig growers in the local metro tri state with lots of experience in growing figs in zone 6a and 6b.... I will let them chime in....

Welcome to the forum Charles. If I was in your zone one of my trees would be a Florea fig tree.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I have to admit I was getting a little discouraged. I'm in Dutchess county outside Poughkeepsie so I'm a little north of you Tony. I'll look for Florea cuttings Sas thanks for the suggestion. I'm sure I'll have other question so stay tuned. Again thanks everyone. Charlie

A little outside of Poughkeepsie? Langrangeville or local environs? I know the area.... I golf at the course in 9 hole Poughkeepsie as well as the Vassar  college course and Beekman and so on. A little chilly in the winter for figs without protection but it can be done.....

I'm in the town of Lagrange west of the Taconic, just outside the Poughkeepsie town line. Right now I'm growing in a pot which I overwinter in the garage. I have a coworker in Poughkeepsie who has an unknown
white fig in the ground so I know of can be done. I was really surprised to learn figs can be grown here. I always assumed Westchester was about the northern limit.

Here's another supposedly hardy fig. Violetta Bayernfeige. The following is translated from Baumschule Anton Plattner website, but the fig is already here in the US.

"• Frost Hardy a few days up to approx. - 20 ° C (or -4 F)  at the protected site with winter protection
 • early maturing, possible starting mid-July
 • Fruit weight to 111 grams possible..."

I would not plant anything outside even in a protected location, unless the trunk is over two inches thick and initially protected in winter until established.

There are many unknown fig trees growing in your area and many members here, on many occasions during cutting season, have offered some interesting locally collected varieties.