When I bought this tree the website said, "Violet De Bordeaux aka Negronne.  Considered by many to be the finest tasting fig."  The growers tag said Negronne.  It is the best I've had so far.  Rich, fruity pulp with plenty of sugar.  It is a productive and vigorous tree too.

I wouldn't give up mine for anything.  Productive, freaking delicious.  Cannot understand why people choose other figs when this one is available.

definitely. If by some unimaginably horrible combination of events I was reduced to only two fig varieties this would be one. 

Well, for me, the absolute saving grace of Petite Negri, as well as all of its cousins, is that they're good well before they're ripe.  I can't cover my trees with nets!

Jason, you getting splitting problems with your Negronne from that last rain Monday?

I literally can not grow enough of these. They are so addictive. I am still searching for something better and I have not found it yet.

Agree.  Negronne is such an excellent fig!  Great picture.....nice job!

Thanks Dennis.

I can't wait to taste mine, but I'll have to wait another year.   Thanks for sharing the photos.   Sure does look tasty!

Tim...
     Is your Negronne in ground ??
I have a Beer's Black in ground. I think it is a Negronne/VdB type. It has grow great this summer , but I worry about a cold winter ..   Fred

Sort of on-topic... I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that Beer's Black, Black Jack, VdB/Negronne, Mission, and a few others were found to be genetically related in the UCD trials.  Is that why you're using "Negronne/VdB type"?

Lucky, lucky, you, Jason.  I've HAD IT with all this rain!  My poor figs are rotting since all the flies have discovered them.  I can only hope it stops soon so the tail end of my harvest can finally give me a truly ripe fruit.

More than one fig varieties, folks!  Just for insurance's sake against the vagaries of the weather!

All of the provence/naples figs, from Barnisotte to Ischia Black are fairly close cousins of one another.  The issue isn't that they are seperate varieties, it's more that the plants are really plastic (even for figs) in phenotype expression, making it very hard to consistently separate one close cousin from another.  So distinct varieties are passed around under the names of closely related varieties all the time, making it hard for us to distinguish which is which--which means that at this point, we've pretty much refer to both variety and original nursery to pin firm characteristics on.

It is interesting that Negronne isn't ripening now.  Petite Negri is some measure earlier, so are some folk's VdB.

Here in the mid west Columbus Ohio, we wished we had the rain.

The continuous rain during ripening has been bad in my area of NE GA. So it looks like I will have another batch of figs ripening in 3-4 weeks and hopefully the weather return to a normal dry and hot pattern for the end of August and September.

Jason, I'm always the confused one, for some reason I thought Black Jack was a BT. Thanks for clearing that up. I have a VDB, Beer's Black, Mission and Jon's Vista. My thinking is if I grow all of them, will be able to see if one performs better then the other. Space is not a problem, so hope they all do well.


luke