HELLO.. I AM LOOKING FOR A GOOD SIZED PETER'S HONEY TO BUY
DOES ANYONE HAVE ONE OF THESE TO SELL????? OR EVEN A TIGER PANACHE ????

THANKS
HAPPY NEW YEAR
THEFIGSTER

HARDY CHICAGO
FLOREA
IMPROVED CELESTE
MARSIELLE BLACK VS
VDB/rdb

Dang looking at the chart, I see why I moved to the south east part of USA.
Growing up and farming in ohio.....what a nice change of location here to retire.
Then I learned I could grow figs here. No wonder all my varieties seem to grow
as good as any other. All about location.


Doug

USDA Zone 9B / Sunset Zone 14
Any suggestions?  I poured through this 6 pages and didn't see anything specific.
Thank you, Bill

So far the best I've had growing in Houston are Improved Celeste and Alma.

I AM WALDORF MARYLAND, ZONE 7; I AM A  74 YEAR YOUNG JUST LEARNING ABOUT FIGS TO GROW. 6 FIG TREES (GIFTS) THAT HAVE NOT BEGAN TO PRODUCE:
(DO NOT FORGET I AM A NOVICE OPENED TO LEARNING ABOUT FIGS)
PANACHE,
BLACK MISSION,
LITTLE FIGGY,
LITTLE RUBY,
YELLOW LONGNECK,
ATREANO

SR Bill,
Here in Phoenix zone 10-11, seems like the Figs do better in ground. The following have done well here in ground.
VDB, Raspberry Latte have fruited well.
Potted:
Martencia Rim,Ponte Tresa,PeloponnisiakaAspra and CDD Rim have been growing well for 1st year.

Welcome, Alcarson42!!!

Zone 6b

Best producer this year was a Black Mission (assuming that's what it is) from a big-box store this year. 

Most of my other trees are still young.   

My best Variity are unknown Variity and my persistent afghan Seedlings.

I surch more Varriity from Afghanistan and Xinjiang, so that they also by - 20 Grad Celsius not destroyed.
I have much new Variity in Test - young Plant and for the future much hundreds Seedlings.

Owensboro
Strawberry (so amazing)
Strawberry Verte (crazy good)
Smith
Sal's
Marseilles Black
Col de Dame Gris
Brown Turkey Not!
Brown Turkey PFTP (absolutely one of the best and is not Brown Turkey!)
Unknown Black from Spain
Hardy Chicago
Kathleen Black
Florea 
Black Maderia
Pastillere
Marva Silka
Piedmonte
LSU Tiger
Italian Honey
Texas Everbearing
Gino's
Black Jack
Spicewood
Black Italian
Excel
Kadota
Improved Celeste
Tacoma Violet
LSU Purple

Hi Dennis,

Is that a list of all your figs with your favorites at the top? 

No. I have a whole lot more. But these listed above were the best tasting this year. There were others.......I just didn't think they were all that great. Like Atreano and Papa Jon and others.

I have a big problem with figs souring. Out of approximately two dozen varieties I've fruited, only black mission has consistently produced high quality figs on a healthy tree, without any souring.

The best fig for me this year surprisingly was my Golden Riverside. I don't know if it was mislabeled by the gentleman that we bought it from in Santa Cruz but after tasting a properly ripe one. I was blown away by the taste. It was firm and meaty like a good black madeira and had a taste of honey as well as berry tones. So good!

Origination:
http://seattlegardenfruit.blogspot.com/2015/10/santa-cruz-adventure-golden-riverside.html

Tasting:
http://seattlegardenfruit.blogspot.com/2016/10/october-fig-bonanza.html

I258

Last year the top producer was the mead fig.
Above average flavor but the tree stayed loaded with figs
the whole season.
I am rooting more of these for myself,,and a few other people that
might get surprises in the mail.

I had others with slightly better taste, but not near as productive.

This is a fairly unknown about winner.

Doug

Chuck, let me see what I end up with come spring.
I may have a extra mead rooted.
I wanted to add 2 more to my orchard as well, but I already have 2  trees
in my orchard so I'll be ok.
I started a bunch of them and other ones from my own trees.
I like to test my own cuttings each year.
If they grow for me, they can grow to whoever I sent cuttings to.

I will keep you in mind, and pay closer attention to them
to get the best success I can. I'm trying another rooting
method that has a lot of mead in it.

Doug

One possible bone to pick; that being the claim that VdB, Negronne and Vista are the same. My Vista does not appear to be the same as my Negronne.

I have been trying different varieties to find the ones that do the best in the area I live. Last year I burned 42 varieties (can't sell or gift trees that are too big to ship and considered by me to be inferior for my region). I'm not ready to release my findings - I did release ripening lists for '14 and '15 - there are here on f4f. I have had over 400 varieties and currently have 225 or so with another 50 on their way.
It is my hope to find 25 varieties that work well here and will make up my orchard and produce figs for sale. I feel like another 5 years or so and I'll be closing in as I have been doing this since 2006.
Dennis thx for the info - you are always good for something and have been for years.

I think what we need are groups of growers who live in similar zones that can co operate and share variety characteristics. I have one forum buddy with a larger collection then mine who I share everything with and we consider our collections linked to each other. Our goal is information collection so we can grow appropriate varieties.

It's a huge shame Hermann2 left as he was a treasure trove of info and the best I've ever seen at IDing unknowns. Ultimately this is our problem - i.e. we don't get along well enough as the trouble makers on this forum don't seem to have to answer for their inappropriate behavior. oops venting - sorry.

mgg

Michael --

It's understandable that you would not be ready to release findings re the best cultivars for your area -- It's a daunting task to narrow 400 varieties to the 25 best.  But would you tell us the names of the 42 varieties that you burned last year?  Plus maybe other varieties that you discarded in prior years? 

In general, the forums contain much more positive comment on varieties than negative.  I get that -- just about any fully ripe fig is good.  Nevertheless, many members may not have the time for extensive evaluations and so would prefer to jump quickly to the better varieties that match their taste preferences and growing conditions.  To this end, it would help collectors to know which varieties other people have chosen to abandon.

Joe,
I have listed favorites several times on this site.
I will not list figs I do not like or ones I have gotten rid of. I do a huge amount of work to gather info and once my project is done I will share the conclusions I have gleamed from growing many varieties here in Virginia.
I don't believe in releasing data from unfinished research. That and any negativity posted on this site tends to create hostility and frankly I am just now posting here after leaving with most of my friends to other sites as f4f has not yet learned that it desperately needs moderators and there is still too much fighting on this site. If Hermann2 leaving doesn't create changes this site will fade away. My return here is tentitive as even though there are still people here I consider friends, 75% of my friends left during the big exodus in feb. of 2015.
If it seems I'm not being very helpful there are reasons I'm not willing to get into but one example is Ronde de Bordeaux. Here it is one of the first to ripen and it produces very attractive figs for months. In a long and extensive taste test done with a 2 star Inn the chefs rated RdB #1 yet in other areas of the country it is not that well liked (ex. Florida). Releasing partial findings just creates misunderstandings.