This is the very first fig from my potted tree and so I'm not sure if this one represents the true size and quality of the variety. I'm sure it get's bigger but it was quite sweet and had a nice sharp, berry flavor to it. Hat's off to this Belleclare heirloom.

Hi Leon,
although a "different fig all together" pictures looks similar to my Vdb in looks and your taste description yet different type. 
A real winner for you i bet .
Thanks for sharing the pictures

Very nice looking fig, the eye seems tight and no voids in pulp which is a big plus 

This looks like a fig I would love to grow. Thanks for sharing, I'm adding this one to my wish list.

Martin:
You're right, it is similar to VdB but it appears to be a totally different variety.
Tomorrow I will post photos of the leaves.
I could be mistaken but I recall seeing the Martha Stewart interview(1997)with the Belleclare brothers where she commented on a fig tree that was potted in a whiskey barrel. This tree had a peculiar weeping form to it. Chris DiPaola told her that this tree was their father's tree and no one was allowed near it.
My impression is that they did propagate from it and that is why it is called Popp's fig (= Pop's, as in dad or father- don't know why the 2 p's)
I welcome Gorgi or anyone else who knows a little more info behind this tree to please chime in. 
I received this Popp's Purple from JV last year. 
Like I said, I'm not sure if this first fig represents the true size and quality of the final product but I thought the flavor was really good! As we all know, first figs are not always so impressive.

Leon,

Leon, I am 99% sure the Martha Stewart (at least the video), weeping fig is Petite Negri.  A collector that lives near me has the tree and showed me the video. 

In the video, I don't recall the name of the father's fig tree as being Petite Negri. Did Chris call his father's fig Petite Negri? Was this the weeping tree in the whiskey barrel?

I took photos of the leaves from my Popp's Purple tree. It is pretty obvious that this variety is not Petite Negri and it is not Violette de Bordeaux. It is a distinct variety of it's own thus far. If anyone recognizes it as something else, please share your thoughts.

The 4 June 1992 New York Times article that launched Belleclare entitled "Growing" by Anne Raver is attached. I found it here: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/04/garden/growing.html.

Leon,
Thanks for posting this. Very nice looking fig.

See Article

I will add to Fig Links as #1115

Bump ... see my [edit:] on my previous post...

I totally forgot to update this post when my Popp's ripened a fig very very late.  The tree was also from JV, and it was only a foot tall in a 1gal pot when it ripened the single fig. 

It was not bad, but had to pick the fig due to freezes coming, it was a week or two early, it was good, but ... not as amazing as a few others.  It tasted young and I'm hoping for magnificent next year.

Some more info about Belleclare (dad/papa) Pop's figs...

A while back, I received an email from a F4F member about the subject.

I advised that he himself posts somewhere here on this FF, but apparently he is shy?

So quoting; here it goes:

"I had the opportunity to meet with Chris several times in the past month.

I asked him about "Pops Tree" 

His response was there were TWO trees that were "Pop's Tree"
one was an Italian Purple Red,  the other was a weeping Italian Everbearing."

@ fignut: MA pl. take note! This info may also relate to the 'weeping' fig that you own...?

has anyone tried a popp's purple from a mature three year old plus tree and if so what was it like? how does it hold up in rainy areas? im in the pnw area. 
thanks

We stopped at a restaurant on our way to Bill's figs where friends of mine are growing figs. There was an Italian tree there with medium sized dark figs on a weeping tree as well as several other varieties including a tasty white fig from Bari Italy. That weeping tree was really odd looking to me but loaded with figs 

You should have stopped and asked/begged/payed for a couple of them green twig cuttings ...