What varieties of figs would be considered red?
I am wondering because I have found a local grower/seller who is selling red and green figs, dark and light of both, but he does not know what varieties they are. Wondering if it would be worth the $ to get some unknown.

Thanks

Grant
Z-5b

hey Grant,
if they are a decent price and he has been growing them locally for many years then they are worth the cash even if he doesn't know the variety.....just my opinion. i see you are zone 5b, are you south of the border or up here in the great white north?

Matti

hey Matti,
I'm up here in the great white north, Kitchener Ontario.

HAHA.....
small world....neighbor....
i'm just down the road from you in the new hamburg area.
i'm betting your going to see a gentleman in Guelph about figs?
if you are he's a good man. i've delt with him and only have positive things to say. he was more than fair.

Matti

YUP, That is him.

hey Matti,
did you ever figure out what varieties he was selling, or at least what it was you bought?

Grant

grant,
if you're willing to wait a bit i have a dozen or so cuttings that i rooted from him....i still suggest visiting him and getting one of his larger trees, i also found him interesting to talk to (i dont want to take business away from him but i have more cuttings than i need). if all my cuttings survive which looks likely so far, i'd have some to give away.
Matti

Is that the gentleman that posted on kijiji in guelph with the greenhouse?? If so I have spoke to him too hes got allot of nice looking plants. I was going to go see them but I have too many plants as it is.

Hi Nelson,
yes it is the man from guelph on  kijiji.

Grant

Hi Matti,

Grant,
nope, no idea what i got....
but it'll be fun finding out.
i got 1 dark and 1 light....then proceeded to get them mixed up...of course.
sooo...i have even less of a clue now.
i only picked them up this summer so i'll know a bit more next year....i hope.
Matti

Grant,
but as for your initial question...i know my HC puts out reddish figs. they are definatly not as dark as mission.
when i was in Guelph at Rocco's(the gentlemans full name is Rocco Furfaro) he had ripe figs on a few trees, which he let me sample...some green/yellow and some green with reddish blush...all very sweet and quite tasty. if you go to see him please take a camera....the 20 year old tree growing in a 5 foot high 5-6 foot diameter piece of culvert(giant pot) is a pic that should be posted here for people to see.
Matti

Matti,
thanks for the info on HC,
I'll see what I can do about pictures.

Grant

saw Rocco today,
sorry no pics.
but it was amazing to see a potted fig with truck circumference of about 2 feet.
bought three different plants, and until I find out what they are,
I'm calling them  Rocco's Red #1, Rocco's Red #2, and  Rocco's Large Green.

and he three in a handful of cuttings from a pile of pruned branches

Grant
Z-5b

Grant,
ya he's a nice guy...neat set-up he's got eh?
i spent an hour or so there...it was hard to leave...
oh one question, what was the leaf shape on the green?
Matti

Matti,
yup , nice guy, neat set-up. he invited me back in a month or so, so that I could taste figs of the varieties that I bought. 
The leaf shape on the green: a wide leaf, like a single lobed mulberry or poplar leaf, but much bigger, some are three lobed, but serration is fairly shallow, and each lobe is about same size, and still others have basal stubs along with the three lobes.
 
Grant

Grant,
Cool....thanks for the info. i was pretty sure that leaf shape was the green, the other deeply cut one(dark fig) is a very different look...hard to mix the plants themselves up....except when you forget which is green and which is dark fruited. hope your cuttings all root for you, they have been very cooperative for me.
Matti

Matti,
here is a pic, I hope, showing the leaves, on the the RLG