I purchased this one from Burnt Ridge Nursery a couple years ago as a bare root plant. I potted it in a two gallon nursery pot and promptly started neglecting it along with some of the cuttings I bought from Zergas on Ebay. Discovered it again last fall and planted it along the south wall of my garage. I has grown slowly this year, I'm sure because it had been neglected. Finally now getting a few ripe figs and they are one of the best figs I have tasted. It was sweet with a deep figgy flavor that lingered for a while. It reminded of my Vdb, except the undertone were more figgy than berry like. Looks like it's going to be a keeper. Picture shows the tree with a few more to come in the next couple days.  

If anyone else has this fig, please share your experiences, if you will. F4F varietal page shows a small green fig that doesn't look ripe, so looking for a little more info.

Celeste?  ;) ;)

Definitely not Celeste! Celestes were the figs I grew up eating all over town. This one blows Celeste out of the water with taste. Larger fig, too!

Hello Tim!  Nice looking fig you have there!  I don't think your fig is Celeste.  The fruit does not look like Celeste to me.  I hope Dan reads this thread.  He may know what this fig is.  Good  luck and take care. 

Hi Tim,

How does this fig do in the rain?  Is the eye open?  I couldn't really tell.  It sure looks delicious.

noss

Just for the record, the Celeste comment was a joke.  If you ever see me tack on a couple of wink-smiles after a comment, I'm just ribbing you.  I like to kid around with everyone, it's my nature =)

Vivian,Has a very small closed eye. I got quite a few showers last week with no problems, but they weren't ripe yet, so it may be next ear before I know for sure.

Dennis, thanks for the compliment. I hope someone can I.D. for sure. Just don't know if Marlow is actually a separate variety or another name for something else.

Jason, I didn't catch the winks, sorry. Sometimes I'm just too serious,lol.

Thanks Tim.  That looks an awful lot like a fig from a tree I saw downtown here.  I am going to try and get some cuttings from that tree just before it leafs out in the spring and will observe the tree, as well.  I thought it was a Celeste tree and it still might be, but the figs were more tan in color and larger.  I'll be interested in hearing how your tree does in the rain.  Too bad we need to wait so long!

The reason I noticed the tree to begin with was because of the color of the figs and the eyes didn't look very large, but the tree was behind a tall board fence and I couldn't reach any figs to pick and look at up close, or to taste.  It didn't look like the tree was dropping many fruits in the heat, either, but I didn't go back during this summer to see if it was still that way.

That fig does look delicious.

Keep us up with this tree, please.

noss

Vivian,
Fences, that's why you need to carry a step stool in you car. Then you can do the hit and run thing like Jason.
"gene"

Vivian,
Fences, that's why you need to carry a step stool in you car. Then you can do the hit and run thing like Jason.
"gene"

I pulled off a hit and run this morning!  There is a house 3 doors down from me that has four fig trees.  Mexican family of masons, I never see anyone in the yard and they have a huge chain link fence around the yard with pit bulls.  They have four trees - ohe has the most gigantic leaves I've ever seen on any fig, you could use them for umbrellas.  Two are most assuredly Celeste, and the fourth ... I thought it was a BT, but I picked one this morning, the eye is small and tight, it's about 20% smaller than a BT, and the pulp is a dark, dark purple.  The skin is entirely purple.  It was fairly rich, and very sweet, nothing like your average BT.

Wish I had a step stool.  Scratched my armpit reaching over the fence to reach the tree and pluck off two fruits.  Was worth the pain, though.

It's an addiction, all right.  Braving pit bulls, even.  Jason, you should get pictures of the tree with the figs you ate and also of that tree with the huge leaves to show us.  You need to make friends with that family.  Did the pit bulls go nuts with you messing around with their tree? 

Gene--Yep, I need to put a stepstool in my car, for sure.  :)

noss

Vivian, I did a hit and run on my bicycle before. I had seen this fig tree with very large figs on it in the front yard of a rent house. I went back the following spring just when the buds were turning green. I rode my bike right up on the sidewalk and while still moving I grabbed the end of a branch and snapped it off. I planted it and waited patiently for two years for it to start bearing and it did. It turned out to be a magnolia. I ate two good figs off of it that year. The next year they split way too early and got full of bugs and the same the third year. Out came the shovel and out went the tree. Oh well I tried.
"gene"

Tim, that fig looks like my coworkers neighbor's Greek fig.  According to him.  He doesn't know the name of it though.  I'm trying to get him to bring in some figs and leaf patterns but his neighbors are out of town on vacation.

Dennis, any help would be appreciated. Thanks for the additional info.

Jason, good thing you didn't have the stool, you could have fallen in with the pit bulls, lol.

Vivian, I'll keep everyone posted. I hope the one you spotted turns out good. It would be a shame to get arrested for trespassing, have to go to court, and it turn out to be a brown turkey,lol.

Some people probably would have liked to have seen me fall in with the pit bulls ;)

I think I have a good rapport with the dogs, though.  I think they secretly appreciate my love of figs ;)

Tim:The fig you have is English Brown Turkey,a very good fig where Summer are long and hot.
Here it get ripe too slow one by one,and more than half will never get ripe when frost come.
For Texas,I am sure is good.
It has many names,but English Brown Turkey is the original name it was imported to England,from Turkey.
Leaves are unique and fruits have a unique color too.

It did sour some last year, too much rain at the wrong time. I always believe Herman, but now some fig friends here think it is the same as Dottato Rosso an Italian variety. Who knows, it may be a English Brown Turkey too. I've just received two cuttings to try to compare the two. It has Brebas this year for the first time which Dottato Rosso is said to have. They also are telling me the leaves and fruit are identical. Time will tell.

Noss, I remember on Gene & Linda's first visit a couple years ago, he saw the figs and tasted it I believe and he said it looks like a regular brown turkey. I hope it turns out to be something better, of course, I've got fig blinders on,lol. I've got some brown turkeys and some Texas Everbearing here that are 5+ years old and they don't looking anything like the Marlow. In fact, they are not worth growing and should probably be sent to fig heaven. The mystery makes it fun.

English Brown Turkey is not ordinary Brown Turkey.
It is a super fig,in climates with long hot Summer.

In the Fall of 2011, I purchased a very small English Brown Turkey from EL.  I potted the tree up and winterized it inside my garage that winter.  Last year, it grew 6 feet tall and started to put out some figs.  Here is one of them.  It is definately a great fig!

There's also a fig from Germany called "Nexxo" that looks like this. Hmmm.....

sorry to dig up such an old thread but Marlow looks so much like a marylane seedless. Is it possible they are the same?

Marlow fig is English Brown Turkey,and is very good for deep south.
Mary lane is a different fig,and in my opinion very bad for deep south on account of souring,in rain,large open eye.
Here was mine.
It did not do well here on account,of ripening too slow due to lack of ,long hot Summer but in deep south yea!

That was ,my English brown Turkey from Burnt Ridge Nursery,that pix represent fruits from it.
Marlow, Brooklin , Emma Brown Turkey,whatever ,whatever,it can have 100 local name,it does not make it a different fig.
Just be careful to be a healthy plant when you buy it.
Because the health of the plant will make a difference.