Just how dwarf are these fig varieties? Anyone have any good pics? I'd like to see these guys in action. I hear the Petite Negra is pretty to look at with the colors changing?

I have both but they are only three ft tall one year old! No figs yet.... I'd love to see some mature trees and figs myself.

I purchased both off amazon Im still waiting on my Petite Negra. I got my Desert king last week, looks like it may come from a cutting? Not sure, but this little guy has a fig on it.

Can't seem to add pics to this forum, ugh! They can make a dating web site u can just post pics so!!!!!! Easy! But u come to a chat site about hobbies and it takes a act of congress to post a dang pic!

UC Davis DK is about 10 feet. My 6 container DKs are 8 feet

My Petite Negra in the ground tree was 10 feet. Our cold winters years ago truncated down to around 4 now. Both are great trees!

Neither of them are dwarf IMO . These are Brebas by the way. Lots of mains forming on Petite Negri .

Yea, it seems if u let anything just grow over time it can get large. I here all figs can get big a bushy over time. But, I think when they say dwarf I think there referring to the size of the trees base or trunk? Maybe? Wished I could post pics lol.

Some photos of my Petite Negra in 2015. This is a Petite Negra in the ground that gets killed back to the ground in the winter without protection,but it produces plenty of figs on the new growth.If you want a short bushy tree,it isn't much trouble to cut back the tips of the branches and the tree will produce additional side branches.

6-18-15
http://i.imgur.com/tiMxTGj.jpg

10-20-15
http://i.imgur.com/QbSidR3.jpg

9-23-15 fig
http://i.imgur.com/8muqHvD.jpg

9-23-15 fig cut
http://i.imgur.com/PmW8C16.jpg

If you want something 'dwarfed' I suggest you do the pruning to keep it short by inducing scaffolds low.

My in-ground DK is about 11 ft tall -- bush form.

I'm not looking for anything dwarf. I'm all about the taste. I'm told that these taste pretty good??? They where a easy find on Amazon. Also what zone can these grow in? I'm in southeast Mississippi. It can get into the teens, although this past winter we just did get any frost. I guess what I'm saying is if it can't handle down to 19* degrees i sure hope it's dwarf!! Because I'm not going to take a 11ft tall tree into my home haha.

I have to tell u is burns me up to see All these good looking fig advertisement everywhere and none of these figs are the ones there actually selling!!! What happen to the good ole days where false advertisement was against the LAW! People unknownly buy these figs thinking hmm I'm going to get the one in the pics and there something completely different. And even one better u go to a nursery and buy a fig tree and it's clearly marked one thing and 6years down the road u got just some ole common fig that's only cool to look at best. This is one reason I join this forum, to learn what I'm getting before I buy, because u dang sure can't trust the stores anymore.

My Desert King is vigorous. It is south of my house. About 20 feet tall. I took a cutting, that is slow to establish. As I recall, the Desert King needed a few years to really establish. It was from Raintree.

I have one called Petite negri which was sold as a dwarf. That was from Wayside in 2001. It was very slow to grow, now about 8 feet tall.

Both are very good figs, delicious in my climate zone 8a, SW Washington state.

Yea I think they all get large after a while. Thanks for sharing. Would be nice to trade some nice fig trees. I have a few small well rooted VdB's I'd be willing to trade for something good. Lol

This is a friends 60 year old DK. Not a dwarf.  
 

Big boy, how's it taste?

Got both, still small at two years, and seem to be kind of slow growers.

I use natures cure slow release by miracle gro. It seem to really help.

I have a Desert King that's probably six years old. I think it has been in the ground for four years. It's eight feet tall, and would be much bigger if I didn't prune it all the time.

27 gallon self watering pot on drip irrigation.  They get one gallon of water a day depending on the outside temperature and air quality.  Due to our heavy rain and flash flooding last week, I have turned irrigation off for 7 days now.  Current temps are 82s by day and 70s at night.  This weekend we drop 10 degrees day and night.  I may water them again tomorrow and then once every 3 days.  My PN is back up to 6 foot again.  I quit watering my in-ground trees years ago.  They've been in the ground 6+ years now and are on their way!