No birds invited? Very impressive design.

Harvey, that Vista looks awesome. Thank You for posting.
Do you know the causes the unsymmetrical shape in the yellow Long Neck fruit? I have the same thing occurring sometimes on my Col de Dame fruit, where one side might have a bump in it as shown above. Is this a normal occurrence in figs or is it caused by something else? 

Last year I received a fig tree from Edible Landscaping that was labeled Violette de Bordeaux. I initially put it in the ground then dug it up and re-potted it after realizing that it was not growing well.
This summer it is doing great in pot but very late to show fig embryos.

I already know that the leaves on this tree do not look like a Violette de Bordeaux nor do they look like any other leaves on any of my trees. I also know that it is not Beer Black since I bought one also and the leaves are different.

Does anyone have a tree like this one? It has small fig embryos and I’m hoping to be able to see some fruit later this summer.      

The Grey trunk looks great in that first picture. It appears that there are different shades of Grey when it comes to fig trees. Perhaps I'm wrong. I like the ones that have a light Grey colored trunk as opposed to dark Grey.

Karla Stockli from California Fig Advisory Board and California Fresh Fig Growers Association.

  They have 400 Recipes on their website: http://californiafigs.com/recipes.php

Aaron, I bought the land last year and still have to plant some new trees. It is one hour away from my home and I already consider it too far.
Unless you have irrigation set up nothing will happen. I lost a whole bunch of trees by not irrigating. I left them to mother nature.
Now, I plan to fix the well and run a line before I do anything else. It's just a matter of finding the time and energy. Best of Luck...

 

Congratulations Aaron. We hope to see lots and lots of pictures in the future.

For me trying to root fig cuttings in cups has been a low odd success method. I've noticed that in order to have some good odds of success, I have to try to prevent dehydration of the cuttings as they are rooting. So the more exposure to the elements the higher the chance of dehydration. That's why I use deeper and larger pots than what I see in your pictures.
Another thing to consider is that when re-potting a newly rooted plant, disturbing the roots leads to a high mortality rate. So I look for a way when re-potting that has as little impact as possible on those newly formed roots. By using a larger pot, the plant has more of a chance to get more established before re-potting.

Last summer I placed a paper bag to cover two figs on a branch so that the birds don't see them. The next morning, The paper bag was torn and the two figs were gone.

Creg- Last summer, I had two trees planted about 15 feet apart with about a dozen figs on each.
I lost half of the Violette de Bordeaux figs to birds, while none of the Col de Dame Blanc was lost.

Brent, 

It was a private message. It read: "My in grounds are either dead or dead to the ground. It was the worst winter I can remember."

If they are made in Chile, I pass. I tried them last year they were very attractive but no flavor. What are those?

Smith,
Whatever fig you choose, if in ground, it will need protection at least for the first two to three years. In Zone 6B I would say try to protect it as long as you can, until you get a minimum of two inch thick trunk.
One respected member in this forum recently announced that he lost all his in ground trees this past winter in New Jersey.
I had figs in the ground here in Texas and they were Col de Dame(3) a Black Madeira also a Violette de Bordeaux. They all had die back but they all came back vigorously.
Over two thirds of the trunk got killed and I thought that I had totally lost them. They were in their first year. Remember that Texas is zone 8B.

Chivas - Based on what I saw last summer, This variety needs a long warm season to ripen all the figs.
When it got cold here in Texas in the late fall, there were still figs on the 7 months old tree. My tree was started from a cutting around April of last year, and it gave about a dozen delicious fruits in its first year.

Harvey, Your story is very inspiring. I lived in Brooklyn, NY for a while but never thought about figs the way I do now.
We had neighbors who had figs trees in their tiny backyards. Some trees were higher than the second floor. They used to bring us a whole dish full of no name figs as most of the people I knew never cared about the name. They just called them white figs or dark figs.
Since a fig tree could live over 100 years, I'm sure that some of the trees I saw there back in the 90's were many years old and may have come with the wave of immigrants in the late 1800 early 1900's.

Harvey - This is a great subject. Here's an interesting article in PDF format.

Beginnings of Fruit Growing in the Old World

• Daniel Zohary and
• Pinhas Spiegel-Roy

Science 31 January 1975: 319-327.

http://worldtracker.org/media/library/Science/Science%20Magazine/science%20magazine%201974-1975/root/data/Science%201974-1975/pdf/1975_v187_n4174/1739362.pdf