Meghan, nope. I did not.

Hey Michael, I forgot to add Longue d'Aout. Mine was in the top 2. Yeah....it was the good!

Martin, you're a riot!

 My Favorite yellow this year.
 Promising
 2nd favorite
 A big sack of sugar water.
  Very similar to Kadota, My wife's favorite
 Very pasty and bland

Please note that these are all young trees and I didn't expect much this year especially with the cooler weather.

thanks

I can't believe all the good comments I've read this year about Conadria.  I don't doubt your opinions at all, but I have to say Conadria is downright terrible here in Houston.  Ack!

I don't have many this year. Bronx White followed by JH Adriatic.

dFoster, which variety did you list as "promising"?  It seems to be lacking a label.  Thanks.

Rewton:

Atreano Gold from Durio nursery.    

I know to some the Conadria is not a top fig to some.  I've read that before on other posts.   However, it was the best for me this year in the gold category.  I guess it comes down to figs performing different for people in different parts of the country.   Michigan is a whole lot different from the south.   My trees are very young and I do expect that to change next year.   Also, I saw variability on when i harvested.  For example, the LSU gold was very dissappointing.  I picked 15 figs on this tree.  The first one was horrible.   The middle ones I had to fight the yellow jackets and the lady bugs and they were still only so so.   They very last one last week, was actually decent and gave me a slight smile as I look on to next year.

Cheers

You guys are funny. I agree though that there are more groupings than light and dark, and those with extensive collections would need a place for these "other figs" but it's just easier for us with small collections to take the few  middle of the road brown, grey,..etc. figs and pic a side and comment on them there. Plus the color variability like Martin mentioned can place some figs all over the map. What a great thread this is turning out to be, lots of feedback.

Oh and Martin, you can post your Black Madeira pics anywhere as far as I'm concerned. They are beauties.

http://gustavson.snimka.bg/nature/2013.771264.31471406

My best light fig- Dalmatie
Wonderful taste!

I just sampled a Norland Fig and the flavor had a lot of punch. It's what you would want and more when eating a good tasting fig. It had a certain complex fresh flavor that I could not detect in the other young jammy figs that I had this year. The sweetness was just right. I mean I've tasted some super sweet figs, such as Celeste this year, but the Norland flavor had much more complexity than just sweetness. If I had to describe it, it was more like a banana strawberry mixed with fresh pineapple in a figgy environment. Despite the fact that all my potted plants are young and I still have to sample others, I must say that in its first year,  this fig has impressed me. If I had to compare it to my young Kadota, Marseilles, Chicago Hardy, Texas Everbearing , Dauphine, Marylane seedless and Celeste. It would be my number one choice this year. I could add that it was even better than my first year Violette De Bordeaux. Here are some photos.
P.S. I did not mention Col de Dame Blanc or Black Madeira. After all I only had one fig of each, but from memory, Norland came close to even those top tasting figs.

I'm not sure if this fig qualifies as a light fig as it appears to me to be in between. Green with shades of purple. If it gets darker than this, then it is no longer light.

Very good information, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Northland is similar to,Longue D'out,and what makes it  a winner this year ,and the reason,it compare to Madeira and Col de Dame,as to have been just as good is:
Northland can ripe good tasting fruits in cool weather like we had in September and October,while Madeira and Col de Dame Struggles in such unsuitable climates. 
If Madeira and Col de Dame get ripe in good warm  climate they are superior to Northland.
I also had good tasting fruits now in October out of Northland type fig despite nights in the 40,and days in the 60,climate that many others will just not ripe
period.
That is why in most climates,it is not possible to have only one cultivar to give you good results every year.
Trough careful selection,one can have a handful of cultivar that complement one another.

Great input Herman. Despite the Texas heat my first year Black Madeira figs are not ripe yet and are still green and the Col de Dame Blanc are ripening one at a time at a very slow pace.  
I guess this ripening randomness must happen when you have new young fig plants probably. Also this summer was not as hot as other summers, so ripening for these figs was probably delayed.
I still have a chance in November as we are still getting temperatures in the upper 70's low 80's.

Another vote for JH Adriatic.  :)

Panache.......Looking forward to next year.....have a small LSU Gold and Long Yellow.

My Lyndhurst white was very good this year, but it is hard to compare it because they were the first LW I ever had. I would think it will be even better with time.  Adriatic JH was also right up there, too

This unknown was the best ripening in a cold year.

Brent,

This unknown fig could one of these days be a Champion !!
What a beauty !
Please tell me about its shape, size and taste, origins ??
May be you already told all this, but I may have missed it.
Thank you

Francisco

Hi Francisco, I got it from someone who's Grandmother planted it in Easton Maryland over 50 years ago. I have not seen the mother tree and have had my plants in containers for 3 full seasons now. A few figs set last year but did not ripen in time. I would say the average size so far has been about 35 grams. Taste was very, very good but hard for me to describe, I have a hard time comparing as well because all my trees are young. But they are sweeter than other green figs with red centers that I have had, which is not many really. 



The trees seem to grow in between weeping and upright, does not seem like it wants to be a large tree. Hardiness has been moderate so far in informal cold testing.


Hopefully next year when I plant them I will see what the variety is really capable of.

Brent:Your pixies show a fig ,that is identical in leaf ,fruit,and dark interior,to My Vasilika Sika i have that is originating from Greece.
This fig I have as Vasilika Sika is not elongated like other figs that goes under VS,in this country,and in fact are Dalmatie.
I finally am sure that ,the Dalmatie type fig is not Vasilika Sika but the fig in the above pixies,is.
I also have Dalmatie type in more than one  specimen,and they are very close to ideal type fig,very tasty large ,and rain resistant.
Vasilika Sika are on the same level of quality,but they have more rounded fruits,and get ripe about 2  weeks later ,compared to Dalmatie type figs.

Thanks for your input H2, I have followed the story of Vasilika and feel very lucky and surprised with what I got. 
These cuttings were labeled "small red fig- very sweet" so I was confused to see green figs. But I see some cuttings for sale on eBay from Greece called Vasilika Melissi which have a red blush on the outside, so I think that I will see some red in better weather as well.

It's a nice looking fig Brent.  Glad to hear of it.  And if you can, how would you compare the sweetness to Battaglia Green?

Herman, thanks too for the description of Vasilika Sika.  But I'm a little confused...  Are you saying that there are lots of green-with-red-center figs that are closely related to Dalmatie, and a lot of others that are closely related to Vasilika Sika?  Sort of like those are "classes" of fig varieties?  (much like there are Mt. Etna figs as a class)? 

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Bought earlier in the season a Greek rooted selection of figs, too young for a responsible comparison and only a leaf or two are left now , but will try a picture of what leaves Vassilika Melissa still shows.

Meanwhile here the original page that gave me thoughts of trying those beauties..

http://www.kostelenosfytoria.gr/products.php?pageId=10

(Vassilika Melissa is second from the top)

Francisco

I have not had a fully ripe Battaglia Green yet Mike, I have some in the greenhouse loaded with figs but so far they have split from the high humidity.

Mike:I am not saying it is confusion,about Vasilika Sika in commerce here ,being Dalmatie.
I am saying it is Dalmatie,just like others similar figs with elongated fruits and Long finger,that are called San Pietro, Stella,etc,they are all Dalmatie,fig.
The difference between them is that some are healthier than others,so they can produce larger fruits,or more abundant production ,compared to the diseased ones.
These differencies make people think they got a different cultivar.
Vasilika Sika positivelly do not have a leaf with long skinny finger,but  short thick finger ,like the above poster pix.
It also has round oval fruits,not elongated.
Here is my Vasilika Sika,pix#1
Notice the green olive exterior,and the dark interior,the roundness of fruit,just like the poster fruit above.
if you got Vasilika Sika that makes fruits like this,(pix#2)you have a misnomer,that is Dalmatie in fact:

Thanks Vasile.  I understand your point now, thanks for explaining it again.

Mike