Have you noticed KiwiBob's updated page on Figs for the PNW/Seattle ? (https://sites.google.com/site/kiwifruitsalad2/)
I grow figs in a very similar climate in the ANW (Atlantic North West) in Denmark, Southern Scandianavia. Fig trees become huge and beautifull, but ripening fruit is the challenge here. I love to walk or sit under my figtrees and smell them, look at them and touch them, but I love eating figs too !
I have some suggestions/questions for people Who visit Bob's website and who share our climate:
Question 1. Which main crop fig varieties would you propose Bob -(and me) to test, that's not already on Bobs website ? Any Main crop fig varieties that ripen before or with Ronde de Bordeaux ? - please name them (Not requiring pollination of cause).
Question 2. Which breba crop fig varieties are missing in Bob's test and descriptions ? - (no fig wasp, of cause). And don't forget, they have to be really, really low in heat and growing season requirements, just like the existing fig varieties in Bob's website - and preferably ripen a heavy or at least half decent load of delicious brebas. (And please you lucky southerners: Dont tell me brebas dont taste good, they are almost all I've got !)
Question 3. Which yellow fig varieties should we test for our climate ? (I like yellow figs - a lot! - but I don't have any in the garden yet.)
Your input will be usufeull to anyone who grows figs in similar climates, and highly appreciated by me !, (and maybe we can also inspire Bob to keep up the fig-testing and descriptions on his website !)