I've been watching this Mission fig hoping the birds didn't get it first. 139.9 grams. Sweet, but not overly so, good fig taste. Looks to be a good year.




 

How do home grown stack up next to the store bought ones? because store bought black missions are terrible IMO! Is there a major difference? Just curious cause people love them.

I think growing conditions and when they're picked at the peak of ripeness vs. being picked under-ripe for shipping makes a big difference. I rate it 6.5 to 7, on flavor scale, sweetness is good and skin thin enough not to be a turnoff.  I think they're popular too is because of being so prolific. In addition this was the only variety that took grafts for me this year (I'm a horrible grafter).  Now when it comes to the Brown turkey variety, that one is low on taste, but good on sweetness. It's a good preserves fig but if I have other fresh variety options to choose from, I'll eat the others first. (Truth is, I this is the first year I'm getting to try some new varieties and I won't turn any fig down.) I especially like freezing figs whole and eating them like a frozen bon bons. OOOOO so good.

Interesting, the reason I got into Figs was because I bought some panache from a local Wholefoods, I was hooked! And that was underripe on the east coast panache! Store bought panache amazing store bought mission blah! Curious to try super ripe off tree black mission! What would u compare it to?

Sorry, I can't compare it to much. Though I have several varieties fruiting now, the only mature ones from mature tree's I've been able to pick were Black Jack, Brn. Turkey and Desert king which taste alot different than Mission. I've tasted Nero 600, VDB and LSU purple this year from younger tree's but it wouldn't be a good comparison as these tree's aren't quite 2 years old and the taste was probably bland due to age and our recent heat waves. I have a 3 year old Panache but over pruned it and haven't eaten fruits yet this year, but last year were pretty darned good for a young tree. I'm growing about 25 varieties of first year tree's so hope to taste more next year.

Nice. BM is an underated fig IMHO. The ones from California have a nice figgy flavor.

Im hoping to try mine this year has over 30 figs and counting. I really didnt care for super market ones but I love the dried ones at walmart. Its my oldest tree but my daughter snapped it in half one year. Then last year squirrels, rats, chipmunks something ate every green fig off of it. I think its going on six years old now just have had bad luck!!