Anyone have any information on Vern's Brpwn Turkey?  Especially its flavour & taste. I have one, well branched 5 ft tall but have no fruits this yr as I pinched out all fruits becos the plant was in poor shape after I exposed it to the cold nights in May. I was wintering it in the house last winter and forgot to bring it in when we had cold nights.

I have a Brown Turkey with palm shaped leaves almost like a Brunswick but it will not sour having smaller eye.
I think in my experience and information that that is a Vern Brown Turkey.
It taste like a Brunswick,it looks like Brunswick ,but doesnt sour like Brunswick wich makes it a very valuable tree.
Brunswick is very flavorfull and sweet when is getting ripe in dry climate,but a nightmare in Rainy climates.
I did have a few fruits because it is young and is the produce of my fig trial,yet I did not take any picture but I have more and i will take picture and post it when it ripes in a few days.
We continue to have cold weater so they get ripe very slow.
Over all I have 2 brown Turkeys coming out of my fig trial.
The English Brown Turkey,and this one that are very worthy figs despite the bad name brown Turkey have.
Best Regards

Is Vern's a nursery or a fig-friend? If this is a better Brunswick, then I gotta add that to my list. Thanks.

Vern Brown Turkey is a distinct Brown Turkey cultivar,Just like English brown Turkey,and Eastern brown Turkey.
These cultivars if they are true to name and not wanabes,are Brown Turkey that were selected for tens or hundreds of year for their superior taste cold resistance and adaptability to less than ideal growing condition.
The problem is there are at least a dozen others circulating arround that are brown turkey hybrids,without any of the qualities listed above,yet they fraudulouselly carry the same names.
That is why one should not buy a fig from someone that did not grow it and can say:yes it is a cultivar worth to grow.
Reading labels on the fruit trees found in the large megastore,rarelly tell you the true about that plant.
I have been there and I learned from my experience.
BR

Good to know about the BT varieties. I have one from member as a cutting ;) but if I look into another I'll have to return here for advice.

Paully22, I have a Vern's Brown Turkey.  I bought it in March of 2007 from One Green World.  I have gotten a few figs from the tree that I found very tasty.  In One Green World's description of this fig they say that to distinguish this variety from less reliable varieties also called Brown Turkey they named it for their friend and garden writer Vern Nelson.  If you go to One Green World's website you can see a picture of Vern's Brown Turkey and a description of the tree.

Vern

I also have a 2007 Vern's BT from One Green World, but has not fruited yet.
Here is a picture of the leaves.

Referring to Herman's post #2, I believe that the mentioned Brunswick like BT came from me.
The second picture shows the leaves of a same age plant. Picture 3
shows a leaf and fruit from a mature tree, taken ~2 years ago before I needed to
destroy it. I recall taking that pic a day (or 2) after harvesting the fruit (lazy me!).
Notice that the leaf fingers can get very thin.

I do not think that the leaves are exactly the same.

Yes George that tree comes from you .
Curiouselly enough the fruits are nothing like your fruits shows.
They are turbinate without neck,while the ones in this third picture has a visible neck.And inside is very light yellow amber,and this one is red.The leaves are same as on mine,Brunswick Type.
Very unlikly looking.
All the talk above is about the Brown Turkey #2,you gave me.
I can see the Vern Brown Turkey in the first picture has different leafe type,and agree it is a different cultivar.
Best Regards

Yes Herman, the fruit can be of different shapes. I remember some were
much fatter and lop-sided too, resembling a plumb baked Thanksgiving turkey.
At that time, I had thought that was where the name BT came from
- the bird and not the country.

This is the interesting leaf I was talking about in the 'tough fig' post.  I have 2 unknowns that have this type of leaf and they are so hearty and tough.  Nothing bothers these trees. So the one in the picture with the narrow lobes are they BT's or Verns BT?

>>> So the one in the picture with the narrow lobes are they BT's or Verns BT?
From my earlier leaf comparison, it is not a Vern'sBT, and may not even be a BT!
Also, definitely it is not a Brunswick (I have 3 variations of  that too!).

Additional info:
Almost 20 years ago I bought my 1st 3 figs from different unkown
commercial vendors (catalogs). Two as a BT and a TE each.
The BT and TE ended up being the same thing (probably both came
from the same initial baby-nursery), and since then I lost track
which was which. There is an "everbearing" in both, since I recall
new fruit kept coming up till frost; unlike more recently
acquired BTs. There are hundreds of BTs, usually with broader
leaves. TE and BT are synonyms fig names.

George you got such a good Imagination,now that you told me about the plump baked Turkey.
That is exactly how the fruits on the tree looks down here now.
Best Regards

George,
I had no idea there were so many types of BT's? I have 2 BT's and a TE but they are quite different. Especially the figs.  If that one in the picture is not a BT, huummm wonder what it could be? You dont have that tree anymore?
Kim

Kim,
My original trees no longer exist, but of course I made sure to save plenty of
cuttings to re-generate them before the needed destroying, so my present
specimens are relatively  young.