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jdarden1963

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and medium green figs.  Both unknowns.  I've had someone say Ischia Green on the green ones except that he thought the growing in clusters didn't fit with that variety.  On both trees, the figs grow in clusters instead of 1 or 2 per node.  I'm hoping with new pictures and descriptions someone can help me out with ID's.

1st: Big Yellow figs. The pictures of the inside aren't really true to color.  The inside is more of an amber color.  The are not sweet but tart or tangy.  They are somewhat dry and some of them have a little bit of a melon flavor.  The eyes are open but not really big.  

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2nd: Medium green figs:

Inside is raspberry red.  They are lightly sweet, a little bit of seed crunch, mild figgy flavor, moist but not overly juicy.  I like this one more than the big yellow ones but neither, in my opinion, is an outstanding fig.  Eye is reddish and somewhat open.  Some of the really, really ripe ones tend to split at the eye.  The darker of the two in the pics, again, in my opinion, was overripe, although it was much sweeter than the other one, it tasted tad bit spoiled.

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Jules

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Wish List: LSU Thibodeaux, LSU Red, Kathleen's Black, Lebanese Red, Jolly Tiger, Black Madeira, Purple Passion, Zingerilla (sp?), Martin's Purple Black, BA-1, White Ischia, any red fig, any dark fig or unknown
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Jules, these look great!  Maybe these are more for preserves, ice cream and the such rather than fresh eating figs. 
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Could be, Meghan.  I have them in the fridge right now and I will make preserves and jam tomorrow to see how it tastes.  I'll let ya know.
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Ischia Green and maybe LSU Gold, if it gets brown spots when ripe and oozes honey from the eye then it would be a good guess.  My LSU Gold is ripe when the sugar spots turn brown, the fig may feel firm even when ripe.  Honey oozing and brown spots, and flat bottom are most likely characteristics of the Gold.  My favorite light fig.
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Something about those yellow figs is very attractive. Where did you acquire these? I wonder of drying them would concentrate the sugar.
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Danny, your description of the LSU Gold sounds a lot like this one. After looking at several pics here on the forum of the LSU Gold, I had thought the yellow one might be that. I will go back in a day or two to pick more and I will try picking some that are still a little firm.    The green one could be the green ischia, I just didn't think they grew in clusters.  

Dale,  The trees belong to a friend of mine.  I only get over there about once a week to check on them and today is the first day that the yellow ones have been ripe.  I don't know about drying them.  It could help with the sugar.  I will try several different stages of ripeness when I go back to see if there is a difference. Perhaps the ones I picked were overripe.  
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Wish List: LSU Thibodeaux, LSU Red, Kathleen's Black, Lebanese Red, Jolly Tiger, Black Madeira, Purple Passion, Zingerilla (sp?), Martin's Purple Black, BA-1, White Ischia, any red fig, any dark fig or unknown
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