Chicago Hardy from Edible Landscaping.  It's in ground at my house in Kansas City plus I have cuttings from it in pots

brown turkey.  purchased it today.

An unknown/unidentified sweet Italian fig.  We were told "Brown Turkey" by the old Italian man who gave it to us, but that's probably not right.  It's sweet and good flavor, and the leaves don't look like Brown Turkey.  Fruit is green with brown (no purple) when ripe, inside is pink / salmon. Leaves are very different from Celeste.  Hoping to get it identified by experts here after it fruits later this year. I call it Frank's Fig (my dad's name... he did most of the work for most of the years).   We got it in 1966, in the Buffalo NY area.

<<edit -- adding more info 10/24/2013 >>  Later this was ID'd as likely an English Brown Turkey.  Subsequent conversations with grandson of the man who gave it to my dad, suggests it was brought the U.S. from Italy (most likely Sicily but unconfirmed) some time prior to 1950.  Some info can be found in this thread:  
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/another-unknown-please-help-with-id-5949851
These days I refer to it as English Brown Turkey (Frank's Fig strain).
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Unknown....    ;)

Keep em coming i enjoy reading the posts and stories with them. !

My first experience with a fig tree came back in the 1980's when my family lived in Clifton, NJ in a house with an old unknown fig tree growing next to the garage.  I was just a small kid at the time.  Then in 2003 I lived with a relative who had a Hardy Chicago fig tree and I caught the bug.  In 2007 I started growing a sucker from that relative's Hardy Chicago tree.  I was living in Massachusetts at the time.  Today I live in Arizona and have 12 fig trees growing in the ground in my backyard, including a tree started from that relative's Hardy Chicago and a tree started from that unknown from the house in Clifton.

Still don't know what Martin's first tree was. ;-)

I bet it was a light colored fig and he will never admit it. :-) Just kidding of course.

My first tree was a celeste from my parents house. These are the only figs I knew growing up. Still one of my favorites(I've got 5 of them in the ground (about 12 yrs. old). My addiction started about 5 yrs. ago when I accidentally discovered there were other types of figs while perusing Ebay. I'm constantly collecting new varieties and thoroughly enjoy my trees and the friends I have made here.

mine were Natalina & Kadota i got my wife for her Bday (and mother's day) 2 years ago from grimo. 

Well well Remis,

You take her home without knowing her name?

Mine was Stella.

I have reason to believe Martins was an LSU Gold.

Jons is Brown Turkey.

"afigfan" might be on to something.

Mine was a cutting from a older Italian women I worked with at the time. It turned out to produce fantastic tasting smaller dark figs which I now believe was a Bissiri Dark as she lived near their place and knew Mr Bissiri and the leaves and fruit look the same to me. Unfortunately I lost that tree in a move.  

When I was a child, I claimed the family fig tree as mine since neither my brother or sister likes them!!   And they call themselves Italians.  They still live with "my" fig tree back in NY.  I moved to TX 19 years ago and bought my second tree, a Celeste a couple months ago from a local nursery.  I hope to receive a sucker from "my first" fig tree soon!


Jo-Ann

I bought my Panache at Lowes in February. It was a dormant stick with one stripy fig still clinging to it. I had just relocated from the cold upper midwest to fig friendlier So Cal, and it was the first landscape purchase for a home I hadn't even closed on yet, but I was smitten!     

Growing up in Queens, NY, I would often see fig shrubs next to peoples' homes and wish so badly that I could eat a few ripe fruit. Did not know anything about them but that they were figs. Years (many) passed and one day I was waiting to get an x-ray. The tech had some large, purple-brown figs in a bowl and offered me one. It was excellent! I was hooked. Soon afterwards after retiring and buying my first home, I came across a lady selling Celeste and Alma plants in 1/2-gal pots. I bought two of each. Turned out to be a Celeste, an Alma, a Brunswick, and a variety that I have yet to identify (but it is very good!). That was my intro to the problems with mislabeled fig trees. Sadly, it has not been the last. Go figs!

I bought my first fig trees last year. Two Hardy Chicago from Richter's Herbs, and a 6" Edible Fig rescued from Canadian Tire. The idea of growing a six-inch fig seemed scrumptiously surprising until I realized it referred to the size of the pot, not the fig.
Lorrie
Ontario, Canada / Zone 4

brown turkey (3 years now),  I still like the tree even though it hasnt provided ripe fruit yet

Toques/Lorrie.....

While drinking my morning coffee, I nearly did a spit-take when I read your posting!  That is hilarious!! 

Frank, from The Bronx, NYC

I just went through reading all the postings.  Quite enjoyable to read everyone's recollections.  Much nicer than reading the morning paper!

Thanks Dieseler/Martin for a great thread, and to all the posters.

Frank/Bronx, NYC

A Texas Blue Giant from Raintree Nursery

Glad you enjoyed the story BronxFigs Frank.
I wasn’t going to admit this, but …
Remember the two Hardy Chicago trees I mentioned?
I named them “Frank” and “Joe”

Lorrie

My first was given to me by my father back in 1995-96, still have it but it's an unknown. ;~(

Backyard in South Ozone Park-Queens NY.

In USA:

Going from (concrete) NYC to (garden-state) NJ (circa 1988); I bought
my first 3 figs from (now forgotten) paper-garden-catalog sources.
Beleive me; in those days, there were only very few figs 'kinds' avialable!

BT/TE1 and BT/TE2; one came as a BE the other as a TE.
Both ended being same, mixed-up which was which.
Both leaves were very Brunswick like, but either definitely-not
being a Brunswick.
Now both BT/TE are dubbed as 'Long Brown Honey' by another famous fig person.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Long-Brown-Honey-fig.-4869862?highlight=long+brown+honey

The other fig was my "Tiny" Celeste, see:
"4-23 GM"
http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_Celeste.html