What are your favorite small to medium fig varieties? Why? Are you planting them in container or in ground?
I'm researching and wondering what will be best for my little and growing fig garden - Thank you :-)

K

My favorite so far is Strawberry Verte. I like very sweet and concentrated flavor. In my greenhouse I can let SV hang about a week after going limp. By then it's wrinkled up like a prune and just as sweet with way better flavor. I don't like the big watery figs like BT, and here even Celeste. Only difference is Celeste is puny.

My first crop of Hardy Chicago last year was amazing! When it was dead ripe it was rich tasting, but not overly sweet. I am really looking forward to this year because it looks like I will get 3-4 dozen figs. I think everyone ought to have at least one HC in their fig garden.

Fignutty, I'd love to see the picture of SV, I agree with letting figgies hangs there until so ripe, anything riped on the tree is way better.

Gene, that sounds great! I have 3 Chicago and only have two fruits on one of them and so hoping to get to taste it.

Current yr breba:


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Last yrs main crop has redder interior and is somewhat sweeter. Both taste great.


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In between the last fruit in 2013 and first this yr, exactly 6 months. And in that time tree was dug up and potted. Breba last yr inground was twice as big.

Kenny,
One of my overall favorite, Violet de Bordeaux
Easy to grow, prolific, extremely tasty complex sweet flavor and readily available.
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mostly greek figs such as vasilika sika black, vasilika sika white,
and the very hard to find peloponnisiaka aspra and peloponnisiaka mavra and achaiko tragano

Sal's G was my best tasting fig last year. very great fruity taste, good seed crunch. was top killed this past winter but is growing very well today.

[QUOTE=ascpete]Kenny,
One of my overall favorite, Violet de Bordeaux
Easy to grow, prolific, extremely tasty complex sweet flavor and readily available.
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Pete, I've heard great things about VdB. I have a small one started from a cutting outside in April. I pinched off the first baby figs that appeared, but now it has baby figs at every leave node! It looks like it will be very prolific. Is that your experience?

GeneDaniels,
Yes.
Its a prolific grower and always produces figs at every leaf node.

That's funny, I happen to be growing both SV and VdB! They're both from EL too, except they don't look as healthy as ascpete's VdB… Any pointers you could give to a newbie fig grower?