Best tasting is the black jack for me, I know their others, but its way to cold here to grow them 

Frank: it was great to read your post on the BT. It sure is a great discussion point. I always wondered why the BT seemed to have a bad wrap. My experience in eating store bought BT figs has always been good. Great flavor! And, these figs are easy to find during the summer months. BT has always been a good fig for me and now, thanks to your insightfulness, I like ut even more! :-)

So,somebody send me cut already...man,it's looking like it is going to be really difficult to get anything at all sent here.Somebody have pity on me,will ya?

<Mumble-Grumble>.

:)

I'm just frustrated. :) I have sent messages out to several people who are rumored to have plants,and have gotten zero responses.I'm not saying it won't happen,just need to connect with the right one is all.

Hello Frank and Group,
Thirty years ago I had a very large orchard and one of the first figs I bought at a local nursery was a "brown Turkey". I was not really happy with that one since the eye was very large and about a day before I would consider the fig ripe the ants would attack the fruit followed by weevils.

So I removed the tree.

Nine years ago after leaving my orchard with 400 trees due to flooding from Hurricane Rita I started all over again, this time with just a half acre yard and space for only six figs. I started with 2 trees of the Celeste which are my food figs and which each produce at least 20 gallons of figs each every year.

Then I went to another nursery and bought what was supposed to be a Brown Turkey to try it again with the exact same results as before. Then I pulled that one and planted an O'rourke with the same results, losing the figs to insects just prior to harvest.

I now have a completely different way to get a fig tree for myself. I go taste the fruit and if it is acceptable I get cuttings from that tree and raise my own. Another classic example is the LSU Gold fig. I have tasted LSU Gold at the LSU Station in Baton Rouge which were wonderful. Then I tasted some other so called LSU Golds in peoples orchards that were terrible. So I put out the word that I was in search of a good tasting LSU Gold. A friend named Rick friend called me over and his was so good that I am certain that it was the LSU Gold from the LSU Research station. I removed cuttings that day and am now growing my own.

We are at the mercy of the person placing the label on a fig tree. Our tastes are different. I am limited to about a 100 mile radius, but I taste the fig first and if I like it I take cuttings from that specific fig. Then I call it for example  LSU GOLD RICK.
Travis ( Mayhawman) in South Louisiana

I never really cared about Brown Turkey because of its OK quality, all I get is Black Mission, Brown Turkey and maybe some Yellow and Green Figs very rarely

The Brown Turkey we get here is always only 3 quarters ripe or more... But here in Las Vegas if there is a fig tree most of them is Brown Turkey, the one variant I found out about was bred for looks, not figs, so I didn't know there was more than one

The opened eye Brown Turkey is not the same Frank posted.  Here in the South we primarily grow closed eye varieties of figs, the Brown Turkey here is a smaller closed eye fig rather than the California style large open eye fig.  The confusion comes from the naming of the trees.

All or most of the pictures on the thread are of the black brazilian variety -Roxo de valinhos probably also called Californian brown turkey. 
With proper pruning it is possible to get a good two crops a season .

This fig looks a lot like Durbrow Unk on the outside and interior color.  I just can't get past this hollow center though, his doesn't have it and is seedless.  Thanks Frank I'll be happy to give this one a spot or two. :)

I just called "Petals from the Past" and they have sold out of this Fig Tree ! The only thing they have is a 5 Gal. and it is $59.95.....Oh well !!

I wanted to thank you for this post Frank. My friend Daisy has an amazing Briwn Turkey and we have been kinda confused that our experience with it didn't seem to be deemed as "special" as some of the rarer named figs on the forum. Daisy was so pleased to read your post talking about the attributes of this variety, that she is offering cuttings from her tree to the members. I made a post today with pics and more info on Daisy's unknown Brown Turkey. Thx again for sharing your wisdom. Jodi and Daisy

I'm glad to see people are looking for Brown Turkey figs from Petals from the Past!  Their Brown Turkey fig is one of the best I have.  A grower can't go wrong with one of those figs.

English Brown Turkey,very nice even though we have had a very poor summer.

Yes they are,from a three years old tree.

Hi Raynding2,
Those are the brebas og the true BT. Do you manage to get the main crop to ripen too ?
I usually manage to get the brebas and half of the maincrop to ripen. But I still lose half of the main crop.
The main crop is smaller, roundish and flatish .

Hello jds france,you are correct only breba,main crop do not ripen here on s.e UK.I have just bought a Desert King whip that i hope will get going next spring,i've also some pieces of two unknown figs from Greece .I had them in my garden there and my wife brought some bits back end of October,one bit is rooting and shooting already on the window cill indoors .

Very nice topic Frank and a beautiful fig.
Do the any of the following pics remind you of your BT? The figs were picked way to early so just mind that! Thanks bud!

English Brown Turkey