i know the obvious ones. Kathleen's Black, Paradiso Gene, and TV that's been talked about recently. but what other figs did he find or introduced? 

i tried to look up his fig variety page, but it seems east coast figs pages are no longer active. 

I think that covers his favorite one's that he locally found near him and named. I associate Negretta and Filacciano Bianco with Gene as well--both interesting figs but I'm unsure the exact story of those. Some other figs too that I'm not sure if they had enough time to see how they perform.

He had a hand in making Sal'sEL/Sal's(Gene) a popular variety as did Michael from EL and likely others I am forgetting.

You can still see his website and his varieties if you go to The Internet Archive and type in his web address. I just tried and found it.

. I associate Negretta and Filacciano Bianco with Gene as well--both interesting figs but I'm unsure the exact story of those. ..........

Just browsed this list, didn't review it to come up with names since I'm not familiar with the stories...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130313174959/http://www.eastcoastfigs.com/orchlist.html

Filacciano is listed here.
http://www.ficuscarica.com/carica.html

So was he the first who knowingly introduced it in the US?(-vs- someone who's relative brought unknown white fig cuttings over with them).



I always have this resounding question when talks of Gene come up.  Where did he go?

@Harvey:
Me and Gene exchanged/traded quite a few exotic fig cultivars with each other in them good old early FF days...
Unfortunately, Gene is no longer into figs, and the 'eastcoastfigs' web site is no longer active/available.
Glad that you did find an 'archive' of it - very important that someone captures/preserves it - as a little part of USA fig history/info.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130313174959/http://www.eastcoastfigs.com/orchlist.html

Attn. Jon: - if not already there, pl. add to your link list.
(P.S. I am no computer/web expert.)

last i heard, gene is doing micro dairy up in upstate ny. goat milk and stuff i think. i think he had the largest collection of figs in east coast before he stopped, i might be wrong. i know bass has a lot too. 

Gorgi, F4F's links points to the old web site URL that no longer works.  I emailed Jon the info.  The home page is cached at https://web.archive.org/web/20130812144251/http://eastcoastfigs.com from which the other pages can be viewed.  This is a copy cached in August 2013.

greenfig.. try scrolling down. i had same issue.. then i scrolled down and there they were. 

Give me 15 minutes, I'll have html copies of all the pages

I named the files the same as the original URL.  In other words, index.html is the home page, orchlist.html is the Fig Varieties page, orchlog.html is the Orchard Log page, ofs.html is the Other Fig Sites page.  I could not find a cached copy of the Pomegranates page even after going back to 2008.  The Contact link direct to email of mail@eastcoastfigs.com

The forum would not allow me to attach html files so I combined them into a zipped file.  I tried printing them as pdf files but the formatting was not so great and the links to other fig sites were lost.

good deal harvey. personally i think things like this is more useful than synonym database. 

I had a complaint that the links to Gene's photobucket photos contained on his Fig Varieties page did not work.  That's because archive.org had not cached them.  I did request that some of these be cached and it worked for one but then not for others so I created a different version which restores links directly to  Gene's Photobucket account where he stores these photos.  That page is contained in the new zip file below and is called orchlistPhotobucketLinks.htm.  If these photos are particularly important to you it would be good idea to save a copy of the photos to your hard drive since Gene could delete them and they would be lost.

I could restore functionality of the pages if I just hosted them all on my own site but I don't know that Gene would like the idea of that.

Nice work, Harvey

I think I tested all of the photo links, and all seemed to work except the one for Cuello de Dama Negro

Thanks, Ed.  That might have been a temporary glitch with Photobucket.  I just tried it and that photo link worked okay.  It goes to http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/Gene_WashDC/figs/cddn04c-1.jpg

Harvey - not that it is important to me, but I still get a broken link.  I deleted that file, re-downloaded it, and still get the same.  All the others work.  I was able to use your link above to see the CdDN picture.

Thanks for your work on this, that is a nice listing of figs.  I wonder what he (Gene H) did with them all if he is no longer that interested in figs.

Thanks Harvey, you be the computer wizard. 

Did exactly as you suggested and copied file to my HD fig folder for future reference!   Gene’s Orchard compilation page has to be a keeper for any fig buffs.  I most enjoy reading his personal notes and observations.

Woo hoo.... just notice this is my 100th post
Edit:  oooops, never mind, somehow it just changed to 101.....:(

Upon closer examination, it appears that my use of Firefox as my browser was correcting an error in the URL for Cuello Negra.

The code should have been <td>Ripens late [<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/Gene_WashDC/figs/cddn04c-1.jpg">photo</a>]; but was missing the quote mark preceding http.

Attached is a third version of the zipped file.  Ed, please let me know if this works on your browser.

Strong work, Harvey!

Harvey - your work was not in vain.  Thanks for preserving these pages.