My best tasting fig so far this year is the Green Italian.  The color is a lemon yellow with a thick, but very palatable skin.  The eye is large, but so far has not split with the recent rains like many of my other varieties have.  It is in its third year and somewhat stingy with its fruit, but they have been large and great tasting.  It is located beside my driveway, so every morning and evening, I give it a good look and keep it picked clean.  I have an Excel which looks very similar, but it has split and soured a high percentage of the figs.  I prefer dark figs, but the Green Italian my change my mind or at least make an exception.

C.H.

It is clear you haven't tasted my Sal's Corleone HAHAHA

C.H.
ah get a hold of nice ripe dark skin fig and you will change your mind back again!

Cecil, I have tasted my Sals Corleone and I probably picked the only fig, a little late as it had started to dry up some, it was thin skinned, tasty, with a nutty flavor and texture from the seeds.  It was the only fig on it this year but still very good.  It is planted about 5 ft from my house with a western exposure and gets it water from the air conditioner drain.  It is a young tree, but definitely a keeper.  I have a Celeste that needs thinning like Martin said to ensure the fruit ripen good.  Some in the center of the tree ripen and droop, but do not develop good flavor, cracked or darkened skin like they should because of dense shade..  I can't eat the leaves and it is late in the season so Celeste, prepare to be bare.:)

C.H.

I know SC is a good fig, I just messed mine up with the Olive Oil

It is my fault 100%

I will not make that same mistake again on any fig here
I think I am going to remove the other 4 figs and let that little plant get some fresh air tomorrow.

Does your Green Italian looks like my Green Italian?

Bass, your Green Italian looks like mine except the leaf is much greener in your pic than my in ground plant, but the fruit looks about the same.  What is you opinion on the taste this year?

I got a Kadota yesterday that was easily the best fig I 've had this year (so far) even with the cool temps.  I'm awaiting another this weekend likely too!   Hopefully my locally found unknown ripens some of its many figs with the cooler temps we're having.

I only wish it had made it to one of my cameras before it was consumed.

~Chills

My friend who has the tree at his farm here in pa. it started ripening for him in July. I visited him couple weeks ago and all the figs were done. So it is an early tree.
When I took that picture it was last year. The fig was really sweet, but on the drier side.