Plotting and planning the fig orchard and have a few oak trees to work around.
Which figs trees when planted in the ground would prefer some shade as opposed to full sun?

Hi, 

Very little sun...hmmm

This one here gets no more than 4 hours a day. In Texas I bet it would be happy with 2! I have found this variety all over Wilmington. I saw one growing branches inside of a hollowed hedge with ripening figs in dense shade. They were not very dark at all but still obviously ripening. I held the same belief that full sun was essential before I spotted this tree.

I should also mention that this is the most productive one I have seen. The ones in more sun seem rank with growth.

I thought I had read somewhere that VDB prefer some shade as opposed to a full day of direct sun.

Brent - How do the figs taste on this tree?

Seems that your fig tree does very well in the shade.
We have the same oak trees found in New Orleans here in Central Texas but with the smaller amount of water they look like bonsai oak trees. 100 year old tree might be 30' tall so my shade is more like filtered shade for a couple of hours a day.

 That is not my tree, sadly. They are berry flavored, I don't have much experience tasting figs, sadly. The ones that are less ripe taste like a little like cranberry to me.  I bought a tree and some figs from a another person in the neighborhood and the two different trees look and taste very similar. I should also mention this other tree got a fair bit of shade too, and also was prolific and good through the wet season we had here.

The ones I mentioned have all gained a couple to three feet of growth on my