Having about 100 different figs was fun when they were little but now it is too much to handle. I am going to clean house next season to make room for unique varieties. I am keeping the best performer in each class of figs.
Mt Etna types:
Hardy Chicago
Sal el/ gene
Dark Portugese
Gino's Black
Marseilles Black VS
Etc....
I would probably keep Gino's, Marseilles Black, or a promising unknown that is like a HC on steroids.

VDB family:
VDB
Negronne
Aubique Petite
Mission
Vista
Petit negra
In this group, I would select VDB and possibly aubique petite(haven't tasted it yet but it went from cutting to 5ft in one season, super fast growth compared to others). Also, mission or vista would be saved because they are different enough and fruit quality is super.

Adriatic family:
Adriatic JH
Strawberry Verte
Battagia green
My figs are still too young to pick. Northeast growers please give me advice.

I am going to try and narrow it down to 30-40 keepers and 10 smaller trial plants. I am welcome to opinions of northeast growers. On a side note I want to grow 1 citrus tree in a greenhouse any suggestions?

Well I'm a Southwest grower and strawberry verte is too sweet and too many seeds for me, but I'm keeping mine at least one more season to see if it gets better as it matures.  It is a good grower. 

Jason V
Most of the fig hobbyist will eventually go through this exercises of weeding out the ones less desirable varieties for a number of reason such as lack of interest in the variety for one reason or another such as better management of available space, labour of love and cost for the more desirable varieties owned or a few new ones on the wishlist to be tested for desirability.

As far as citrus goes, the smaller and more sour the fruit the easier it is to grow. You can get dozens of calamondins or kumquats or a few navel oranges. I think a good compromise is an Indio Mandarinquat which has an edible rind, sweet, tangerine-orange taste and fruit generally 2-3" in diameter. Check out http://www.fourwindsgrowers.com. I've bought from them many times and always been happy.

I live in zone 7b. It gets colder in winter. But I have one dwarf naval Orange and dwarf lime trees. Planted in 10 gallons pots. The orange tree is 6 feet tall and the lime tree is 5.5 feet tall. They spend the summer on the porch in the sun and in winter I get them inside the house and provide 10 hours of good lights. Currently I am building a green house just for the Figs. They produce very good I never tasted sweeter orange like mine because I leave it on the the tree until it gets yellow. The good thing is they make the house smells very good. Contrary to Fig trees they make the house smells like cat liter.

Way to go Jason. I am doing the same. I am finding too many are much hype out, close similarities and not as tasty. Because of this, I am leaving the less tasty ones & close similarities out in the cold this Fall/Winter to fend for themselves.

I tasted Aubique Petite in Ohio and it is very good.

I have reports from Rhode Island & NJ that JH Adriatic is super good.

i guess unless you have a huge land, it will become necessary sooner or later. i'm already thinking about what i need to get rid of . Ischia Green from UCD is on the top of my list for getting rid of. probably thin out Calvert too. just too much FMV. Calvert will stay around till i see the fig. i don't mind FMV, but IG is just not growing well. beside, i have good cuttings of IG from a generous member.

This is about your citrus question.  I think it should do fine in your greenhouse!  Citrus, like figs, love heat and sun.  We rarely get freezes here, but everyone here has citrus, and they line our streets like landscaping trees.  Being homeless here would be great because there is fruit lying in the streets everywhere!  The problem with a freeze is that it dries out the fruit and kills the juice.  Your greenhouse should prevent that! 

Good luck with paring down your figs and your citrus in the greenhouse!

Suzi

Another idea for citrus is to get something odd that very rarely appears in stores like the Buddha's hand or Australian Fingerlime. Or get two or four or 37 plants...

Or maybe get your favorite citrus to eat :)

BTW,did you know you can force a citrus tree to bloom? Just keep it dry for two weeks then water it.

OK, if we are talking citrus varieties here, of all the citrus that grow (and they all grow here), if I had to pick one.  Meyer Lemon.  It bears all the time, and you can use lemons for cleaning your shower, stove top, and furniture (with oil)!  Cooking---making lemonade, and with all things fish or chicken.  My favorite salad dressing is olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.  Yummm!!  Just my humble opinion....... which isn't always so humble. LOL!!

Suzi

So 7deuce, Vista and PN are fairly different in taste?  (I see that you're in New Jersey, though, PN can be bland without heat, have you had as much trouble as Herman2 in having good heat for summer?)

Standard advice for citrus is to forget the bother of potted plants and just plant a Thomasville citrangequat.

I'm with Suzi, go for the Meyer Lemon.

Jason,

I'm relatively new to figs and Citrus, but here is my opinion.

After searching this website and Internet found information that there may be at least five (5) taste groups/classifications for figs. They are;

Sugar...Improved Celeste, Eastern Brown Turkey, O'Rourke, Etc.
Honey...Italian Honey, White Marseilles, Atreano, Etc. 
Adriatic...Adriatic JH, Conadria, Green Ischia, Etc.
Bordeaux... VDB, Mission, Vista, Etc.
Dark(Black)... Sals EL, Hardy Chicago, Dark Sicilian, Etc.

I have been building my inventory by acquiring cold hardy, productive varieties for each group, this will hopefully limit my total number of varieties, I'm currently growing 31 different varieties. The goal is to get the best five (5) in each group.

I can recommend the Meyer Lemon for cold hardiness, growth and productivity. I purchased a 1 gallon plant from Petals from the Past in May of this year. The plant currently has 2 dozen pea sized green lemons and is covered in new blossoms. It has grown to be a 3 ft bush in only a few months, and is now indoors in a south facing window, and growing vigorously. Although the citrus plant will be in a greenhouse, cold hardiness should still be a required trait.

Good Luck,

Understand that a Meyer lemon is a cross between an orange and a lemon. It tastes like that. Some love it, some don't. If I were going to get a lemon I'd go with a variegated pink lemon.

What's your favorite source for the citrangequat?

Jason,

You want to keep that JH Adriatic, it is one of the best figs I have ever tasted. As for citrus, Meyer's lemon is an excellent producer, Calamondin is the easiest and will yied a nice crop of small sour fruit. I'm told the rind is also edible and sweet like a kumquat. Blood orange is fun to grow, Sanguinella seems like a good one.

I have a grapefruit vodka cocktail fruit that I highly recommend. I don't know about cold hardiness though or even trying to get it where you are at. Meiwa kumquats are also good. I've been looking for that and no one sells it in AZ or to AZ.

Meyers Lemon is thought to be a cross between an orange or manderin and a true lemon, named after the guy who introduced it to the US from China. They are too sweet for me for most cooking uses. I like the sour tange of the lemon so opted for a Lisbon which has the tang of the Eureka but a lot fewer seeds, almost seedless.
Sue