Hi, Barry!

I'm very sorry to hear about yours problems with hurricane..

I myself this year have floating problem.. Actually I seems have this kind problems here every year.. And I moving my plants under rain for few hours, try to find dry spot..
And every time this happen..I'm thinking I need to stop buying figs..
But..Another one come out I still don't have.. And..I can't help myself..
But if you need help, please, just let me know..This year some of my figs doing great, so I can cut them easy..
Olya.

Hi, Noss!
I do have a Dogue de Bordeaux..Just 5 of them now..
And I did have a 14 of them here one time..
I understand what you saying about feeling..
I heal many people myself with my own energy..
I try don't do this now.. 26 year of leukemia start let me know I need to take it easy on myself..
I got my SC from Vasile too.. So, may be you just need to be patient.. And may be just help this tree time to time with fertilizer or lime..
I never give up on any of my plants..
I always try to find the way to help them out..Must be being a doctor and never give up on myself or on any one other I know..
But, I will see how this year my SC doing..I didn't cut this one last year so this one a big and can be easy cut..
From my experience figs are actually react different on fertilizer, water, light, even cutting them down some like it and some don't..
Yes, I was not on forum for last 9 month, but I spend all my free time with my figs all this time and I see how different they react on things I try to do for them..
I think if we will pay more attention and be patient we will better understand each fig what and when she need..
I live in Florida and this may seems more easy to grow figs in warmer climate.. But I do have a sulfer water, sometimes too much rain, sometimes too much heat and sometimes too much cold..
I did plant one fig in ground..
Two years from now I went to Lowe's just before freezing night and guy sold me huge "Brown Turkey like 7 feet tall for 10$..Just because they was thinking cold will kill it..
So, last year I plant this one in ground..And for a year this one was just sitting doing nothing..
But this year tree start grow and produce lots of figs.. They are was very good.. I know..Now I start thinking may be this was not a Brown Turkey, just a lable.. But after this experience I'm planning to plant in ground more figs.. This way I almost never need to water this one, and seems plant love it too..
Olya.

Nice to hear from you Olga, glad you are o.k..
Dogue DB is one of my choices, just don't know too much about them.

I had one Sals C ripening ( the other was given to a relative ) and would have been ready today. But the damn tree rat got to it first!

WAR has been declared!

I have had the tree now for about 4 years and never tasted one! Either I'm on the road and my family eat them, which I'm fine with that. Or, the damn thieving tree rats get to it!

Time to pump some lead to the back of their ears. Mess with a Corleone, you play with fire.

Ire i never have tasted one.
I got mine from someone that walked into Belleclare and bought it and mine came from his tree.
I have a few main crop on tree now that should ripen this season i grow it in tree form.

BlB the Italian unknown gave 1 ripe fig in 4 full growing seasons. Some have scion of it before i burn it and i would like to hear how there plants are doing.

Olga nice to see you post !

Martin,

That doesn't sound very promising. I can see why you would eliminate it.

Yeah Barry what you going to do i had no choice.

Names do not matter to me if i dont like taste, taste similar to another or it does not perform after giving it chance they go .

Black Bethlehem
Santa Cruz Dark
Dark Portuguese - all left my yard this season and given away.

1 of my large Ronde's given away as im confident in the other so no need now to have extra to fertilize and water and take up room to store.
Under performers on list
Pastiliere
Kalamata Black

Mavra Sika may be another in time if i find its similar to another in yard.

Martin, I have Black Bethlehem and it is finally putting on a decent crop so I will have to see about that one. Also have Dark Portuguese and love that one, very productive and tasty. Not growing the others except Ronde which is still very small for me

Barry i dont mean to imply those are not good figs for some others.

For example
Dark Port tasted similar to my Hardy Chicago but perhaps a little milder so no need to keep it . Yet a good fig otherwise that i would have kept if not having a hardy chicago.

Black Bethlehem was a decent fig but not that great fig for my palate to keep.

Santa Cruz which i saw on rating listed that was rated very high to person that made that list was not rated high for my palate at all.

So were all different but you knew that already im sure.   ; )

Growing them and tasting them after time and getting rid of them for various reasons enables me to keep only the finest tree's for my palate.

Ronde well i would think you will like but were all different.
Please post either way one day.

I'm going to have to make some hard choices as well. I still have a lot of young trees. Most of my older ones I really like and wouldn't want to dispose of, but what am I gonna do with all these others as they grow? Fortunately I have a lot of neighbors and gardening friends who are now showing an interest in figs, so that is a way to keep them near by anyway.

Yes sir Barry mine are in the neighborhood .
Think about less trees when you "have" to root prune every year the trees on a rotating basis.
Every year some need it if you been growing them in pots and not just starting out.
I often wonder how some folks that grow them in pots do it with so many plants.
Maybe im just a wus.

Hi, Martin!
I don't think you a wus:-)
And this is a full time job to take care about many figs..
I understand what you saying about keeping just finest one..
I do have Mavra Sika and this year this one real start grow and after fertilizer start show many figs.. They still very small, but hopefully I will be able to say about taste later..
Birds real start drive me crazy..
I let them eat all my mulberrys this year and they decide to stay and now eating my figs..
We just get ridd off rats (poison from Home Depot done real good job)
But now birds eating all blubberys and figs..
Martin, please, tell us which one yours favorite figs, I ask about taste..
I think you are right and in different places and may be for different people figs are perform different..
But for you which one perform best in taste?
Thank you!
Olya.

Hi, Rafed!
I'm Ok.. Seems nothing on this planet can kill me:-)
If you will come to Florida, please, let me know..My SC still green so you still have a chance to try it here:-)
And hopefully some other figs too..
Olya.

Thanks Olga,

At this point I just want to see the Dogs.
I will let you know if or when I am in the area.

Thanks

Its interesting to read how folks are cutting down. Dot get me wrong, I really enjoy figs but my best figs are going to be the ones that make it in-ground.

I'm not interested in a rare fig if I have to treat it like a crystal egg. I want tough trees. 

I'm now up to 9 trees in-ground. I'll winter protect them this year but they only get a 1 year grace period.  Whatever doesn't make it gets put on the wood pile and i'll have another soldier take its place.