Ok I was at the nursery where my plant came from today and while I was there my Brownturkey looks absolutely nothing like theirs the leaves are completely different and all their plants that had figs the same size as mine had a red eye and mine does not. Oh theres had 3 lobed leaves here is pics of mine below only one fig this year and doubt I will get to eat it.








They told me only varities they propaged in the last year was Black Jack,Desert King & Brown Turkey but used to sell Black Mission, Peters Honey,Celeste ,Kadota,Lattarula.

Will take more pics if the fig does rippen. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Sorry just noticed the pics were huge reduced them. Dan first thing that came to Mind was Brunswick but they have never sold that variety or Verns Brown Turkey although it does look like the verns BT. Guess i just have to sit tight and hope that the fig gets ripe enough to figure it out.

My BT leaves looks this:

Ya I dont have any leaves like that on mine, that one fig on my plant started forming in the 1st week of august mean while I had ate figs from my Bronze paradiso already oh well I just pray we get good weather for another couple weeks so I can see what colour it will be.

Nelson,

Part of the problem is that even if they "never sold" a given variety, it doesn't mean that the variety that they "did sell" was labeled correctly to begin with. They could be selling Brunswick (even unknowingly) because it was labeled BT or Celeste or whatever when they got it.  I have several "BTs" which clearly are not, but that was what they were labeled as. See Brown Turkey pix at Figs 4 Fun, esp. the HD, PM, and MD ones. One of them is a Celeste, the second quite possibly Hardy Chicago, and the third, don't have a clue, other than possibly Osborn Prolific. The MD was sent to me by someone who couldn't understand why I didn't like BT. Well, I understand now, because it wasn't BT and it is a really good fig. If I had thought that it was BT, I would have raved about BT, too.

Thanks pitangadiego that makes sence ya I did look on your pics of  Brown Turkey and they all seemed different I guess its too easy to misslabel plants when you dont do it yourself or dont do it right away. I did notice that the Desert king was not propagated by them. When i was there earlier this year I seen atleast 5 figs unlabeled for sale I noticed some had different leave shapes than others so I guess thats how it all starts then they just stick and tag on it and there you go.

And if they do not propoagte their own, their source can send them 100 of whatever they have with the "ordered" name on the label, and when they are dormant, who can tell. and by the time they leaf out, the seller doesn't care (the label is correct) and the customer probably has no way to check, and probably doesn't even realize that he/she needs to check.

Ya that is so true when dormand who knows what it is unless its labeled correctly. 10 Years ago my dad bought a Satsuma plum tree from a nursery two years later we had a good crop of Early Golden plums lol all too common unfortunately. One thing I did notice how ever is tha fig on the tree is round and all the Brunswicks I seen here in Toronto were long when young not round atleast that was my observation. When I look at this Threat about the Verns Brown Turkey the leaves do look identical but cant say for sure.

I bought one with leaves like that labeled Celeste at a local nursery(knew it was'nt) just bought it because it was different. Turned out to be a bronze Brunswick. Tim

This has become way too common, Nurseries have to step up and stand by what they sell. Specially with some plants that you have to wait a couple years for fruit and in the end its not even what you bought thats very very disapointing.

Ok so here is an updated pic of this so called brown turkey it is obvious it wont ripen in time but they are completely round and a little smaller than a golf ball. Only two figs it produced this year still dont believe its a brown turkey