Hi all
i am still fairly new to growing figs
i have a Black Mission, what i think is a celeste, and an unknown.
they are all still young. i had 3 fruit on the Cleleste last year, and about 2 dozen this year. its still producing small figs actually. and, ive already eaten a few that just ripened.
the others are too small to produce, though, the black mission is about 4ft tall and wide.

I am in New Orleans, and we get a lot of rain here. its also humid

i am looking for taste of course, but also for having a long growing season, or breba crop.
I am not a big fan of fruit trees that produce for 2 weeks out the year.

heres the pics of the "unknown ID" trees
https://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/2-trees-unknown-id-8175599?pid=1292820335

any suggestions appreciated
Brad

There are a huge number of possible answers.  Taste preferences differ, and there is no perfect fig.  There will be some problems with rust, splitting, souring, bugs, etc...  With that said, here are a few that seem to be loved by almost everyone who grows them.

Lightish- Dalmatie/Stella, Strawberry Verte
Brownish- Longue D'Aout, Improved Celeste
Blackish- Figo Preto, LSU Scott's Black

Search the forum for their names, you will probably like what you read.

I'm and have not tasted the ones the poster posted above.  I live in SE Georgia, so my climate is not quite as wet as yours but close.  Personally Black Mission is not enthusiastically recommended for the deep south, and based on my experience I see why.  I mean, I get nice big figs off of it, but they split and tend to be watery and band or even fermented in an August where it rains every third day.  Of my figs that have ripened figs so far, my favorite by several orders of magnitude is Green Ischia.  So far, Negrone is my favorite black fig with fruit way smaller and better than Black Mission.  My only complaint about it is that the fruit can be kind of hard and dry if conditions aren't quite right.  Celeste is a great fig, but is the fig I grew up with, so in my mind it's the baseline of what a good fig should be.  I have others that I'm trying, but I'm not far enough along with them to say much.  God bless.

Marcus

If you wish to have an extended season, you will need to grow a few varieties.
I would look for varieties that are adapted to your local environment before anything else and give the trees time(3-4years) to produce. The rest is for research and fun.
Preto (late variety) would definitely be on my list.

Welcome to the forum Brad! You are way down there. The humidity here in Arkansas can play havoc with figs, I can't even imagine what it would be like in New Orleans. I would guess that anything with LSU in the name would be a good bet for you. I've heard great things about the LSU Gold, but I can't get it to do well here in zone 7a.

When it comes to grafting, I'm a newbe. I tried fig grafting a different variety on a Bursa once and failed. You could always try, but you don't need to, Preto is a robust grower.
It's a Black Madeira under a different name. This is my tree in its second leaf.

I too grew up in New Orleans with the Celeste figs. They are my standard for judging figs. I would put in an Improved Celeste, LSU Gold and an LSU Tiger or Champagne. The LSU figs were developed for the Louisiana climate.

I am now in SE TN and my Celeste is 4 times the size of my Brown Turkey and loaded with figs. Both bought at the same time and same size. The Celeste has been the most popular fig in the south for many years according to one website. The only ripe figs I have had so far this year has been a Brown Turkey that was big, pretty and tasteless like all BT's I have tasted. I saw figs in my grocery the other day. A plastic tub with 5 BT's was $5.00 ....$1 a fig! The most vigorous trees from cuttings I have are what was referred to as a Louisiana Brown. The are growing like weeds, rooted bigtime in a cup and lots of leaves, will not know if they are BT's or not until later. I think I got about 8 cuttings for $10 and ALL are going crazy. They will be in a one gallon pot outside in a few weeks. Cutting to 1 gal outside in less that 2 months!