Hello to all you Figs 4 Fun Forum folks and a BIG thank you for all of those who have answered questions and chatted with me.  It has been a blast learning about figs, trying new varieties and getting my own personal fig collection going.

I was introduced to figs and backyard gardening by my grandmother.  She had a fig tree in her yard in Caddo, OK.  Every summer I looked forward to visiting and would circle that fig tree daily looking for ripe ones.  Now that I'm grown with kids and a yard...  Well I had to have a fig tree.  3 years ago I started a edible landscaping idea.  It has grown to include (currently) 13 figs, 2 peach tree's, 2 plum, 2 pecan, blackberries, blueberries and a plethora of potted containers growing anything from tomato, strawberries, peppers and a large selection of just pretty plants.  I have everything rigged up to a custom watering system so I never have to worry that the potted plants are suffering in the Houston summers.

In the pictures I have my most recent fig sampling.  The Texas Blue Giant won hands down in this bunch and might be one of my favorites so far.  The others are Alma and the last a Texas Everbearing (or Mission, it was a end of season fig from a local garden center).  The Texas Blue Giant had a very nice berry hint to it, was sweet and the skin was tender.  
      
I like figs, period.  Its hard for me to say I don't like one.  But what I'm looking for are tree's that keep their fruit, maybe produce more than one crop and produce enough fruit that I actually get some after the kids have had their fill.

Hi Cobb4861, welcome! My love of figs ,also,came from picking and eating my grandparents figs. Seems like you have a great collection already :)

Great selection of figs.  I can hardly wait for mine to start producing. Thanks for sharing the pics. 

Welcome.

I thought I better update my fig list.  Thanks to Danny's Fig Gig and Jules I am knocking two more off my wish list. 

Welcome!  Check out all of JD's recent threads.  He's in FL and he describes some of his favorites.

Welcome Cobb.

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you got a nice collection going already. I haven't tried any of these as of yet but am told they are wonderful. I will find out hopfully in the next month.
VdB, RdB, MvsB, black bethlehem, and albique pitete. I hear VdB is amazing.

RCantor,

You are right about JD having some great sounding figs!  The most recent post of his can attest to that.  I will start looking for some of his older posts.

Garden Whisperer,

You have a great collection also!  A lot of dark figs!  If your Blue Celest doesn't work out for you please think of me when you use it for cuttings.  I hear that one does real well in my area.  But I will have to try that out for myself to be sure.  ;)  My celest I've had for 3 years, but the poor thing keeps getting roughed up.  First a tree fell on it, then a dog (great dane mix) ran through the middle and broke off more.  I finally dug it up and potted it to give it a chance to recover.  Its fat and happy now and putting on new branches.  I'm fixing to move it to a bigger pot but wasn't sure about moving it while it had figs.  I'd like to try at least one!

Meghan

Welcome, Cobb, wish you the best of success.

Welcome!

Welcome! I was introduced to figs by Fig Newtons ;-) I've yet to try a fresh fig. I have two brown turkey figs that may ripen this year. I know, not the best to start with, but you work with what you have.

Jeff, I have brown turkey figs and love them!  My kids love them!  And they are easy to grow and reliable producers.  I figure that is a reason that they are the most common figs sold.  Just make sure they are ripe when you pick them and they are nice & lightly sweet. 

Meghan

Welcome Meghan !

Welcome,  Like many others my love of figs started at my grandparents as well.
Where in Houson?  I grew up in Freeport, just to the SW.

You have to love the innocence of the UN-informed.  Meghan, you have the audacity to say that a Brown Turkey fig tastes good!!  Shame on you, you blasphemous figger!  We all know that for a fig to taste good it has to be something other than the lowly Brown  Turkey!  How can you not understand that the RONDE ROUGE MEDIERA MISSION DE BORDEAUX (purple) is the standard that will prevail.... as long as people are willing to pay $400+ for juvenile trees on eBay!!

Meghan, Meghan, you are surely delusional!  Fear not you are among friends, we care!  We will prevail and you will come to your senses!

BY THE WAY - I have an English Brown Turkey that is a great fig, but we know that it is not really a Brown Turkey!!

Thank you for being you!  Really looking forward to you coming to the Fig Gig!!

YOU KNOW ALL THE ABOVE WAS IN JEST!!

Danny, that's too funny....lol.  Since I have no idea what my grandmother's tree was and it was the only fig I had ever tasted until last year, I must reserved judgement on all varieties, including the Brown Turkey.  It would be just my luck that it turns out that is what I ate all those years growing up and loved them.  ;-)

Danny, I have to grow something to feed the kids and then save the really good figs for myself ;) 

But really, I just like figs.  A BT does NOT compare to the Italian Honey or Blue Texas Giant that I have had so far this year.  Or to my Petite Negra (whenever that ungrateful tree decides to bless me with another fig).  But they were much better than the Alma figs I've had so far. 

I've heard rumors that the San Pietro might be a California Brown Turkey.  Is this true?  And who knows.  Maybe my BT is a mislabeled Celest and that might be why I liked it. 

The answer is, simply stated, is if it tastes good to you..... it is a good fig!

You are the first person I have ever heard say the Giant is a good fig.  It is so dependent on lots of factors.  I have two from different sources, we'll see how they work here.

 The Giant converted one of my fig hating friends into a believer.  I have heard that it has to be happy in order to produce good figs.  Maybe its just happy.  I only planted it in May so we'll see how it does.