Im curious of how the season is turning out for everyone here. Thought I would ask the group to post your top 5 figs of 2016. Maybe it's still a little early as some of my varieties haven't ripened yet. Varieties like Preto for example.

Mine favorites this year are as follows

Nero 600
Italian 258
Genovese Nero
Black Tuscan
Maltese Beauty

Just so I'm clear - top in flavor only?  Or also taking into account things like productivity, recovery from cold damage, etc.?  

Thus far:
1. Chicago Hardy ( first year tissue culture in pots- for berry flavor and productivity)
2. Celeste ( second year in ground - for light, frothy flavor and productivity)
3. LSU Purple ( first year in ground - for productivity)
4. Magnolia ( first year in pots - for refreshing melon and lightly sweet flavor)
5. White Marsailles ( first year in pots - cucumber taste)

Caveat: I only have seven small varieties producing so take my rankings with a boulder of salt. : )

Dan,

Do you have any Black Tuscan photos?


The top 5 berry figs I tasted this year were:

1. Azores Dark
2. Petite Aubique
3. Negretta
4. MSVS & Letizia.. virtually the same
5. RdB

Top 5 overall:

1. Black Madeira
2. Azores Dark
3. Petite Aubique
4. Kadota
5. Negretta

and I'll throw in Olympian as a bonus. Note: not all of these I grew myself.

I know which is my top tasting fig in TX for three years in a row: 1) Col de Dame Blanc UCD. This one would easily beat the best tasting light or dark colored fig out there and if it wasn't a late fig and easily damaged by winter freezes, it would be one of the very few that I would consider growing at my location. The rest this year and not necessarily in order.
2) Boujasotte Grise
3) Preto
4)Noire de Caromb
5)Celeste was the surprise of the season. This is hard to believe, but I became a Celeste fan.
PS. My Celeste tree in pot just dropped its leaves a little early this year after ripening all its figs. It was my top producer and had the earliest ripening fruit. Hope I don't ever lose this one:)

This year,

Black Madeira
Abebereira
Lampeira Prusch
Ronde de Bordeaux
Negronne

Still waiting on It 258, Genovese Nero, Col de Dame Blanc...

Black Madeira
Negretta
Valle Negra
Longue d'Aout
RDB

Based on excellent taste only & on 5 variants(I have more excellent ones):
Bellone
Unknown
Granthams Royal
Unknown Red
LSU Scott Black

For reliability, good taste, productivity :
Desert King
Granthams Royal
RdB
Osborne Prolific
Enrico

Surprised - based on taste :
Filaciano
Norella
Blanche Alasche

Terrible - Olympia, Likely candidate to go.

Hi,

1. Longue d'aout ( 1 tree lda, and 1 tree healthy lda  - damn prolific) damn good , huge figs .
2. Ufti -unknown from the Italian gardener ( 6 trees - that helps a lot)
3. Jannot (Desert King type, brebas only, first productions of tasty figs - taste that I did not have in my collection until now) (1 tree)
4. Dalmatie ( 3 trees in ground and 2 smaller in pots ) (lost all the brebas because they ripened while on holidays, but currently eating the prolific maincrop )
5. BT for breba productivity (1 tree )

Some deceptions too, but, the season is not done and there is still next year ...

My favorites this year:

Martinenca Rimada
Nero 600m
Lebanese Red
LSU Red
Maltese Beauty

Most of my trees have not fruited - as this is their first year in the ground.

Waiting on Black Madeira, Verdal and De La Gloria...

My favorite is I-258 , Montenegro,Bordissot negra,and then panache and sweet joy.

By far exceeding in terms of taste is the Col de Dame. Could be a white or a gris, not sure about that.
Very prolific as well.
Second comes the EBT, followed by the Marseilles.
The other trees in pots are either too young, like the Barbentane and the Negronne or the figs aren't ripe yet, that goes for the Madeleine des 2 saisons.

Weird thing happened with the Madeleine. I just bought it this spring, it had one breba already which ripened early july. About 6 weeks later it had 5 fully grown figs on the new branches, which turned yellow and then fell off, the inside being dry and uneatable.
And guess what, now it seems to ripen another 6 figs. Looks like this fig keeps on producing!

1) JH Adriatic
2) LSU Black
3) Nordland
4) Negronne

In no particular order and basically I only had about 5 varieties so its easy. :).
Hardy Chicago
Unk Italian Nyack purple
Peters honey
Sweet Diana
Celest
Acciano.

Like Pino I have many more to try yet this year but so far my favourites are:

1. Niagara Black
2. Bourjasotte Noire
3. U/K Sicilian
4. Maltese Beauty
5. Improved Celeste (nice tight eye even after heavy rains)

Still a bit early for a first year.

I just had a Saint Rita, which so far, stands out the most.

Very berry and very sweet. I will grow another one for sure

#2 D'all Osso, very sweet with a bit of honey flavor.

Have to wait a little longer

This is my second year tasting figs and some of my results are based on only one or two figs. We had an awful heat wave here that hit hard my favorites from last year (I-258, VdB, CdDN). A number of varieties are just recovering and setting out a fresh crop of figs as if it were spring equinox instead of fall.

1. Black Madeira – (1 fig) It’s in the ground and had a slightly different taste from Figo Pretos (2 figs) in pots. The FPs to me had a similar taste but also a slight added umami under taste to it and wasn’t as good. Perhaps it’s just how I taste things, that particular fig or where they’re grown.    (Update 9/23- Today I tasted a fully ripe FP from the tree below and it was perfect -big, sweet, fruity, jammy, the best fig this year. Guess the tree just needed more time. The tree is also the most productive. It is the same as BM.) 
2. Unknown Pastillere (Smyrna) -Delicious abundance of sweet black figs with a slightly richer taste that Ronde de Bordeaux.
3. Ronde de Bordeaux was almost as good as the UP above, and produced an abundance of figs over a longer period of time. I’m still picking ripening figs off it.
4. Hative de Argentueil -dense, firm, and still juicy and moderately sweet. The flavor was more of a strong berry flavor to me with subtleties of taste which I'm not able to describe.
5. Bourjassotte Grise (2 figs) -it was my favorite among the Adriatic JH, Strawberry Verte, Battaglia, green fig/berry taste cluster. It was larger and slight sweeter than the others with a similar strong berry taste, especially since the Strawberry Verte figs dried up before ripening in the heat wave.
6. LSU Gold (1 fig) – I have to include this as the best honey flavored fig of the year, bigger than Pete’s Honey, which all dried up unripe in the heat wave, and sweeter and bigger than Marseilles EL (Lemon, Lattarula), which out produced it 10 to 1. 

Had a great crop of Celeste and we froze about 8 large bags of them
I have a new Kadota that has done well also. So far three ripe figs, but about 20 still on the branch.
My Davis Islands were planted in the spring and have taken over the place and are loaded but the figs are still hard as rocks
The Olympian was little more than a stick this spring, but has about 10 small figs and is adapting well
THE LSU Purple planted this spring had about 4 figs, but they were so close to the ground critters got them and shared them with the ants. I did get 2 decent figs from it though.
The Chicago Hardy had a pretty good crop, but they came in about the same time as the Celeste and were not as sweet, so they ended up playing second fiddle.
I have a brown turkey that seems to be the turkey of the batch. I looked great at the nursery but as soon as I planted it it started loosing its leaves. Epsom salts and plant food has helped, but everything else seems to thrive on coffee grounds and egg shells. 
God got even with Adam and Eve making them wear fig leaves. They are like sandpaper, but there is something in North Carolina that seems to eat them. I am starting to see beetle damage on some of the leaves.


Area 8 Coastal Carolina

No particular order:

Olympian (Simply Awesome and easy to love.  if I could only keep one in-ground fig it might be this one)
Negronne (not the one that is the same as Vista.  Just outstanding.)
Nero 600M (From James... seems identical to my RDBs, but only in its first year... maybe it was mislabeled???? Outstanding, beautiful, great grower, productive, and full of sweet and rich goodness.)
Navid's Unk. Dark Greek (like a MBVS on steroids)
LSU Scott's Black (This is an Outstanding cultivar)

Honorable mentions:
LSU Red (sort of like a really good improved celeste)
Unk. Antayla Red ( unique and beautiful fig. Wonderfully sweet and mild refreshing flavor with nice jammy texture. I think this will grow in popularity once its shared)
MBVS (reliably yummy)
Hardy Chicago (reliably yummy)
Strawberry Verte (full flavor and sweet. perfectly balanced)

oh yea... and plain ol' regular Celeste... Im a sucker for it because I grew up eating them so its like connecting with my past whenever I take a bite.
Preto/BM not yet ripe

mine is brown turkey fig  why you say  that is the only tree I have  but trying to root some others