LSU Purple fig I think! It could be Gold. I won’t know till we get fruit. This thing is growing crazy. I know that I need to trim/cut it but I need to study it a bit I guess. Can’t put it back after you cut it. I think I have way too many trunks and believe that half of them could be severed from the main tree to produce other trees. Any one with ideas please post. Multi trunk planted Spring 2010.

Lemon fig or whatever that is, I believe there are several synonyms for it. No fruit yet. I planted it in the Spring of 2011. Bought at a local flea market so the name is not written in stone.

Brown Turkey This is probably named right. Planted Spring 2011 and bought at the flea market. It is now holding fruit (May 30, 2012). It is growing well and has a multi branch form.

Here are some of the fruit on the Brown Turkey as of May 16, 2012.

The man I bought this from said this fig was brought to America by his grandmother from Italy and she called it an Italian Strawberry fig. Not exactly sure what it is. I planted it Spring of 2011.

Ok I'm dangerous now since I figured out how to put pictures in a post. Bet you wish I had a better camera HUH? It's on my wish list and hopefully I'l get better at composing the pictures.

You gave me an idea!  Troll the flea market!  Never did that, but when we buy the acreage for all the orchards (olives, citrus, avocado, vineyard, pomegranate, and tropical fruits, bordered by prickly pear), It's a good idea!  I'll be checking it out!!
Suzi

Your pics look GREAT Charles.  Keep posting them.

Your pictures are fine - keep 'em coming. :)

As to your figs, do you want trees or bushes?

Gina because of my limited land and varied interest in other fruit trees (30 Citrus, 50 Blueberrries, dozen or so banana mats) I'm going with bushes but on the large side. I have them spaced at twelve feet. I think the multi-trunk tree can give you more opportunities for fruiting and taking of cuttings. You also have more chances to recover from those occasional devastating hard freeze events. IMHO

I also plan on having my figs as bushes. But I'm going with much closer spacing - as in hedges with plants being perhaps 4 feet apart and they'll be kept on the short side. A few will be planted in pots.

We have an acre, but most is on a steep hill with various snakes, including rattlers, and no one is getting any younger...  The 'flat land' where the house was built is limited. And there are already 50 blueberries (middle of harvest now), 6 citrus, and a peach, plum, and apricot. Also some avocados on the hill the previous owner planted. Bananas can be grown locally, but this location is just too windy.

Sounds like you are creating a edible landscape. I'm not afraid of snakes even poisonous ones but I'm also no fool. If they live on the hill they can pretty much have the hill. LOL They serve a very real purpose keeping the rodent population down. Having a healthy King snake population and predatory birds will help control the rattlers. Unfortunately the Birds are not selective eating everything.