Recently read some very good things about the "HUNT" fig variety. 
Supposedly a hybrid  of "Celeste", "Green Ischia" and "Brown Turkey"
Good for humid areas? 
Ripens in August? 
Closed eye?
Large figs?


I hope some members have grown this variety.  I'd like to know more about this and how it might perform in NYC/Zone-7b. 
Is this one of those varieties that's badly infected with FMV?
How does it compare to "Stella" or "Flanders"?
Pictures....please.
Opinions.....

Thanks,


Frank

I can't answer any of your questions but I've seen this one dissed a lot.  :)

Frank,

I fall under Bob's "dissed category".  I had one from my tree this year and it wasn't a Kodak moment.  I also had a few a this summers LSU fig day and wasn't impressed either.  I wouldn't call the figs large by any means, more medium I would say.  IMHO there are other better trees to give the space to.  I received my tree from Just Fruits and Exotics as a mistake but they quickly made good with the correct tree no charge.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/hunt-fig-photos-6420573?highlight=hunt

  This very cold tolerant clone produces large, long necked, violet-brown figs having amber pulp tinged strawberry over a long fruiting season. This is one of the best figs for home use since it is so dependable and bears a good crop of high quality fruit each year. This is one of our favorites here in Louisiana because it is well adapted to rainy areas such as are found in the South. It has a superb, sweet and rich flavor that reminds us of a larger and improved 'Celeste'. Bred by E. W. Hunt of Eatonton, Georgian in the 1920's. Fruit shape pyriform with short, distinct necks. The leaf has a subcordate base and 3 to 5 lobes.

Thanks for the quick opinions, links, and some answers....

There seems to be a great disparity of opinions between those who have grown this variety, and I would suspect that if I decided to grow this fig in NYC, I might get different results, either good, or, either bad.  I would be inclined to try it if I had the space, and the time for trials.

Thanks for the input.  I truly appreciate your interest, and answers.


Frank

I tasted one from nana7b's tree a couple months ago.  I wasn't impressed.  It was large, good texture, but not very flavorful.

Hunt is a good fig. I have several growing in pots and 1 growing in my orchard. My trees came from Durio and JR. My trees produce in July/August. I'm in zone 8a. My trees are young but they grew strong this year. Figs are medium size, long yellowish brown when ripe. I heard once the tree gets established and growing well, the figs get larger and darker in color. It also has a closed eye.

thanks,

BTW, I'm growing one and should get figs next year.   :)

B. W. Hunt for Benjamin Weeks Hunt from Eatonton, Georgia. He bred a few plants that have his name including this fig in the early 1900's. I have one. It is fairly vigorous, but not my favorite fig. Like a large Celeste with an elongated neck. It is apparently a Green Ischia Cross, though he did try pollinating Celeste and Brown Turkey and supposedly got other crosses from them.


"One of the most enthusiastic breeders of figs in the southern United States was B. W. Hunt (1911, 1912) of Eatonton, Georgia. For female parents he
used Brown Turkey, Green Ischia, and Celeste, and for pollen he first resorted to local seedling caprifigs. Later he obtained blastophagas which
effected pollination of the edible figs available. One of his main objectives was to produce a fig with a peduncle long enough to hang downwards and
thus to shed rain away from the eye. His seedling fig, the Hunt, a cross of Green Ischia with pollen from California, has the desired character, is larger
than Celeste, but is too tender to ship well as a fresh fruit.

Both Hunt in Georgia and Tanikawa in Japan split open the apex of the fig and introduced pollen on the point of a knife blade."

Scott