This fig gets some bad press, but I have had 2/3 ripen in the last couple of weeks, for for late November, early December, with an admittedly warm "Indian summer" Fall, they have been quite good.

Decided to throw my 2 cents......  I was at a tree nursery and ate some Kadotas and Peter's Honey and the Kadotas were sweeter.....now that I am thinking about Jon's post....maybe the tree needed more maturity to have the great taste that Jon is saying........the trees were about 3 to 4 feet tall...... The tags showed that these trees were supplied by Dave Wilson Nursery.........will be visiting our local tree nurseries in the summer and do some more taste testing...LOL 

How does it compare to your "UNKNOWN OC" Hearty flavor?

You know guys you are absolutely correct about Peter's Honey.  For about 3 years, my tree would produce small yellow figs that had no taste.  The figs would just fall off when ripe.  Last year, I read one of Rafed's post were he said his PH was the best fig of all. 

Well I started thinking that maybe my tree just need more age and I need to get myself an older tree to test.  I found a local nursurey the had some that were over 5yrs old and a bit pricey.  I bought 2, took them home repotted them.  A few weeks later, figs popped out....swole up, turned yellow and started  oozing honey from the eye.  I picked the figs and man ole man they were freaking amazing!!!   Very rich ...long strong honey flavor.  And days later my other PHs did the exact same thing and were amazing. 

SO, yes!  PH need years before the figs will make you dance for joy!  Today, I now have 6!

Dennis,
  It sounds like your old PHs needed to take a lesson from the new PHs!
Jim

"Swole up...". Lol. Thanks for the southern usage for "swelled," Dennis. My favorite phrase from the occasional cowboy who makes his way into my office from rural Nevada is "I'm all stoved up" when he's suffering some sort of spine pain. Makes me smile every time.

As for Pete's Honey, I guess I'm just not a honey fig aficionado. I'm not a huge fan, but that's my general position on every honey fig I've tried to this point. That's a relative statement, though, as I'd happily eat a bowl full of Peter's Honey or any properly ripened honey fig than eat no figs at all. It is productive and sweet enough in my conditions, but doesn't peg my pleasure meter like, say, a similarly ripe Hardy Chicago, Paradiso or even the ubiquitous Celeste.

In my collection PH is the exact same fig as White TX Everbearing, the former from Burnt Ridge Nursery, the latter from USGR in Davis. I should get my first ripe main crop Kadota's next year to compare. If the three are equivalent, two of them will leave my collection. If Kadota is clearly superior, PH and W TX E will both probably get the boot so I have more room for figs with  more complex flavor profiles. I keep trying honey types, though. Hopefully Salce blows my socks off next year when I should sample my first.

Bob, hard to say. The PH was picked on 12/1. It wasn't to die for, but it was amazingly good for 12/1. It wasn't Unknown OC/Honey OC, but it was 12/1.

@pietangadiego : Did you swallow them before ( like me with most of my brebas this year ) or after taking photos for the forum ? Sothat we can at least see how they looked, especially inside ...

Is this the same fig ? 
http://www.thefignursery.co.uk/fig-peters-honey/

That doesn't look like the same fig, Luke. Peter's Honey should have amber flesh, not the red flesh in the picture you linked.

snaglpus  I agree also once yellow it's truly magical  

Luke, like this.

 

I think we all pass up a lot of great figs just because no one is out there marketing them and telling us they have this great new variety that everyone must have. There is a huge number of figs that get over looked just because they've been around and no longer command huge sums of money on Ebay, for example. Peter's Honey is one of the varieties that is sold along with Hardy Chicago, Celeste and Brown Turkey at our local nurseries. Because they are so available folks who contact me for fig trees always refer to them as one of the crappy varieties easily gotten and they are very hard to sell. 
I know my collection is now full of many of the older varieties that seem over looked and I'm excited to try these older figs as some I have tried recently were excellent (Monticello Marseilles for example). I also know I've spent quite a few pretty pennies buying up all the "fad" figs we've all been told are "must haves". It will be very interesting 5 years from now when I'm able to compare these new "must haves" to the "older and much harder to make money on" varieties.
A lot went into finding and developing these older figs. They weren't just found in a parking lot and named and marketed as the next great fig. I, for one, intend to give as many of them as I can a fair chance at a home in my collection.
My PH was good this year but not great. I'm happy to hear that very well may have been because it's still too young.
Neil,
Where's your patience ole boy? Give figs a chance . . . All we are saying is give figs a chance . . . can you hear the music?

It'll be interesting to see who likes PH in 5 years and if climate affects its flavor a lot.

Yes, interesting.
I learned that I am going to need to manage it differently next year. This year it had double figs on most nodes, for a 4 yr potted tree I was excited. Turns out that I think I let it over-crop. The first 5 or so figs were just right, around 45 grams plump, and filled with viscous deliciousness. I couldn't really peg a flavor outside of sweet, but coupled with the texture it was very agreeable. Then we got rained out and the next 10 or so were washed out figs of underwhelmed hopes.  Although the weather was good, the remaining 15 or so figs were just a weak attempt to bring something together. Half were edible and the other half I would rip open and then just throw in the garbage. It was obvious the tree didn't have the resources to put anything into those figs, it didn't grow an inch after it set the crop.

Next year I am only letting that tree hold onto about 12 figs and concentrate more on building growth and limited hopefully overall quality figs. And if my up and comers outshine it, it will get one more year before I give it to some poor fig-less soul.

jdsfrance. I took pix, and someday I may have time to get them processed and uploaded to Figs 4 Fun - along with 5000 others.

Aaron,
Sorry, I don't have any cuttings. My tree barely grew this year. As I mentioned above, I let it grow too many figs and the result was not optimal. Yes that is a picture of PH. Good luck, my tree came from Monrovia.