thanks art. belle of georgia was sited as a possibility for new mex by  NMSU. you just sold me. i'll get one.

One thing you can try, Susie, is buy yourself a patio peach.  That way, you can control your watering needs, easily protect the tree and fruit from the various bugs like plum curculio (or your local flavor of pest), and build a frame you can quickly put over it on cold spring days (or take it to some free standing shelter).  This in addition to some trees you can try out in ground to make their way as best as they can.  Googled about peaches for Flagstaff, Az, and I think the issue is as I first surmised.  Your first priority is protection from spring frosts during and after bloom.  I'm not sure about varieties, because the vast majority of peaches offered for desert climes are relatively subtropically inclined, and the peaches meant for colder climates can be water sensitive.

And if you want a peach, get yourself a peach.  Let figs be the best at what it is.  

thanks shah. thing is i bet you've never tried a morle paradissio. as i said, it's a better peach taste than peaches trucked in for 100s of miles.

i'll definitely test it against home grown peaches, which i sure hope are better. peach trees are pretty, anyway.

Well, I try to discourage such comparisons.  I see it all the time where someone compares some "fancy" tea as having some pleasurable taste like wine or chocolate, etc.  Same with new varieties of fruit trees, especially with mangos.  As it is, new mango varieties are far more successful than most new fruit varieties at having a consistent flavor note reminiscent of other fruits, while also being a good mango as well.  When it comes to other fruits, like apples, you see these utterly misguided "grape flavored" apples, or other fruits with only a hint of the suggested flavor.  I would never want grape flavored apples, even though I very much like high quality grapes.  If I want a nice apple, then I'll get a Cox Orange Pippin or one of the more productive descendents, and you can't really describe that particular flavor as anything but a Cox Orange.  If I want a nice grape, I'll get one of those wine grapes, or a table musk grape, like those concords with seeds, or muscadine grapes.  Really, thinking of a peachy fig is nothing more than a bit of hype or aspiration.  This is not to devalue your experience or the variety Sangue Doce per se, but *especially* when it comes to figs, there is only a very little utility to such description.  Figs are exceptional when they have a dense or complex flavor at all, and such quality figs happen only when certain things happen wrt to local climate, and how the year went.  As with any other fruit in fruit enthusiast forum, people often get excited about new varieties that simply doesn't offer that much that is new--so as you would with new tech like Ipads, the best policy is to wait and see if people can reproduce the quality in their specific circumstances.  Black Madeira, for instance, is recognized as it is, not quite so much because it's the very best tasting fig, but because it can consistently make high quality figs with its distinctive taste under many different climates with reasonable productivity.   At the end of the day, I pretty much can assume that you'll swiftly adopt new characteristics that matter matter more than whether if it's peachy or not--because figs can offer so much more than that.

Susie-the biggest issues for you will be late frosts while the flowers are blooming, and water. Peaches are fairly good with hot dry weather but obviously need some water. Once the blossoms drop, the tiny fruits are fairly hardy into the mid-upper 20s. I know they grow a lot of peaches in Western/SW Colo, where the climate might not be that different from yours. You will likely have to spray against some insect pests but likely not against the fungus diseases we face in the humid East. Your county ag agent may be able to give some advice. You might need some spring frost protection as others mentioned, and keeping the tree pruned low helps me put sheets or tarps over branches during frost, gives some protection. Also, if your soil is alkaline you will need to monitor pH.

Good luck, home grown peaches are my fav fruit. White peaches like Belle of GA are great if you like pure sweetness ( I prefer my Raritan Rose and Carolina Belle better), and yellow peaches have a bit fuller flavor. Be careful not to get some of the low chill varieties grown in CA

shah, that was well reasoned n certainly sounds right. but you are not correct here. i left the figs on the tree because it was a first year. i just wanted to concentrate the flavors. i had never heard that this fig tasted like peaches. i had no such expectations when i tried them. i was, quite honestly, shocked when i tasted peaches, with just the tiniest hint of fig.
this is my best tasting fig and i defy anyone to deny the great peach taste of one of these, slightly shriveled. i believe that if 10 people tried them while blindfolded they would say they were eating peaches. this isn't hype, just my experience.

thanks, ed. if yellow peaches are so different from white, i may need 2 trees. i'll have 10 figs, but i'll cull for taste. i've got room for more trees anyway. i enclosed a space 21' by 36' to provide a micro climate for figs.

Susie,

The Sangue Doce is an unknown so you will find no pictures of it online, not sure how many have it.

Great topic Pete. I too Love Peaches. However, I cut down 4 of my 5 peaches. I can't keep the moth larvae from getting to them. Not without spraying and that's not what I want to do.

I would love a fig with a slight peachy flavor. I have an idea of one variety in particular that might hold that flavor.

thanks will. um, foster, have you not read my posts above? it's not slightly peachy tho. its mostly peachy, just slightly fig.

shah,

i hear what you are saying, but because a fig has added note of peach, does it make that fig any less of a fig?

unlike other more popular fruits, i seriously doubt there will be enough grant to start making root beer flavor figs :)

Suzie, you have talked me into getting a Morle's Paradiso!! Hope it will get that full flavor here.

A suggestion - if you get a second peach tree get one that ripens earlier or later than your first. You can really spread the harvest out over at least 2 to 2.5 months with enough selected varieties. Once they are bearing heavily you will want that harvest staggered.

Salce, i have... and Hardy Chicago. i should be able to taste them this yr.

In 2012, I drove to Houston Texas. When I got to Texas, I stopped at a nursery that had a peach tree called Tropical Snow. The tree was freaking loaded to the ground with peaches. And the peaches were sweet tasting. From what I learned, TS is a prolific and easy tree to grow. Anybody ever heard of Tropical Snow?

i think one of other member mentioned Tropical Snow in other thread as one of the best peaches. then he mentioned Sweet Crisp as best blueberry.

Tropical Snow is a low chill variety bred to do well in the Deep South or CA. It would likely bud out at the first early warm spell farther north.

That was me that mentioned Tropic Snow peach. I have one tree going on its second season with me. It is the best peach IMO and many others for this area. Its a white peach and will drop you to your knees its so good!!! My father had a few of them last year and swore up and down its the best peach he has ever had. He went and got 2 Tropic Snow trees that week for him self. There is another one called Tropic Sweet that's a yellow peach and from what Ive heard its a winner too but haven't tried them yet. They are both very low chill varieties, around 200 chill hours and are in full bloom right now for me. They ripen early too in May and last year I didn't have any insect problems at all and never sprayed for insects or scab. The tree is still going strong and leafing out nicely as we speak.

On the topic of peach flavored figs, my neighbor has a unknown fig variety that my wife and I tasted in Nov and we both agreed it tasted like a peach or apricot. I believe that was the first fig my wife has ever ate and the first thing she said was it taste like a peach. That's a pretty unbiased opinion in my mind. Then I tasted it and agreed. Im rooting some now and have given several cuttings away to members on here. I actually have a good sized bag of cutting from it still in the fridge and need to get rid of them. I tried to find out what variety it is but it turns out the fig was planted several years ago from a previous home owner. Ive tried to contact them to no avail. Its driving WillsC crazy! I know this is a stretch, but Im looking for CDDB and CDDG if any one wants to trade:/ That's all Im missing and want for my collection.

Just to be clear the Unknown peach flavored fig that Blueboy mentioned and graciously sent me cuttings of is not the same as Sangue Doce....they have two different sources.  Looking forward to try them both.

looking forward to hearing about all these figs next yr. it would be neat to have one of them that will test most like peach. 

This is a great topic. I’m allergic to peaches and almonds -sensitive to their trace levels of strychnine from eating too many raw almonds all at once on a camping trip. Mangos make a good substitute, but it would be great to find a fig that is peach or mango flavored. There’s an auction for “Unknown Texas Peach Fig” cuttings on eBay now. Has anyone tried this or would Sangue Doce, Pesco d'Oro or Morle Paradissio be better choices? 

Pete,
Have you ever had an LSU purple?  When its really ripe it tastes like a plum to me.  which is a relative of a peach...just thought I'd throw that in there...

I remember bigbadbill telling me that cole de dam Gris tasted like peaches... I shouldn't quote though because I probably have it wrong. He mentioned so many varieties that my head was spinning. That one stood out though because after talking to him I wanted to get it. Please correct me Bill.

Hi Troy,

Sodus sicilian really tastes like a peach, in my opinion. Col de dame Gris is heavenly, and easily one of the top two or three figs I've ever had the pleasure of eating. It definitely doesn't taste like peaches, though. It is so good, it is hard to describe.

Thanks Bill, I remember you talking about a Fig that your daughter thought was a peach. You must of been talking about cddg before we move onto sodus. Great, I just added another to the list.