San Diego, CA

This fig came into its own this season when placed next to the driveway where it is getting more heat. Very sweet, somewhat maple-life flavor, with a sweetness that lingers on your palette.

Stupendous. "Maple-like flavor" sounds intriguing.

I had my first Flanders figs get ripe this year. Young tree in full sun. Nothing much to write home about.

I'll have to add this one to my wish list.  Thanks for sharing.

Funny you should feature this fig, it was my number 2 pick after Panache at HarveyC's. I wonder how it would do in the East.

Donna, I tasted Flanders at a friends in New Jersey last year and it was good. However it was late September or early October and I'm not sure how it would taste during cooler summers like we are having this year. It appears this fig needs a lot of heat and long summer to ripen properly.

 Pete

With the maple flavor, could this one be similar to UCD 152-4s? Do you have leaf photos?

I tasted a Flanders a few weeks ago and to me...it exploded in flavor...what kind of flavor...????? It was different....I am going to buy a tree locally here and maybe use the
fruit for baking a pie or ????    Will have a tree in a few weeks if anyone wants to trade cuttings....

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Armando by Fresno California

Flanders has been very productive for me and the figs are nice though I noticed this year I didn't like the breba crop at all.  I need to take better notes about stuff like that.

Flanders leaf. I waffle back and forth here as to whether or not I want to keep it. I got it early April 2012 as a 4 foot whip from Raintree in a 10" sleeve. I cut it back to 2' and it took a long time to start growing. It ripened one fig in October last year after  some weeks in the sun room. It was tasty and the skin was very tender, that's all I remember. I'll try profile it a bit more this year. This year it has 3 figs, so not much of an improvement in production but I think they will all ripen before frost. Of all my plants this one has the worst FMV, half the leaves are normal and the other half are in various degrees of distortion and mottle. Last year I don't think it had any normal leaves though, so it is getting better but I can't help but think it needs to be in the ground somewhere with a longer season. Maybe a healthier tree would do better here.