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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?
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Hi, 

Not certain about mature trees, But I have been growing, first and second year
Texas Ever bearing, Negronne ,Celeste, and Alma on my patio which gets very little sun with good results.
Good growth with both the figs and trees.
And good color and taste on the figs.
Hope that helps you. 
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Very little sun...hmmm

That's interesting that you report that they still have good taste.

I'm surprised they aren't bland tasting or blah. I have talked to many who have no problems with patio growing. My taste buds would probably consider them a bit on the light side of taste.

You need at least 8 hrs a day of sunlight so too much shade is detrimental to taste development.
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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.
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I should also mention that this is the most productive one I have seen. The ones in more sun seem rank with growth.

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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.
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 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.

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The ones I mentioned have all gained a couple to three feet of growth on my
patio. With very little sun.
In fact, it has a built-in " Sun Block "
To me the taste was good and the color nice.
Could they have tasted and looked better?  Perhaps.
But for young trees ( one and second ) years, I have been happy.
To add, I have also used, Spray and grow and SuperThrive.
Which I think has help alot.

P.S. I have heard Obsborne Prolific does well in the shade.

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