People are making such a fuss over the Ponte Tresa fig tree. The taste is described as: “It has a lemony zing just before its full fig flavor hits the palate like a semi.”
That sounds like Igor’s El Molino fig which also is a high acid tasting fig: “bright, sharp raspberry notes, complexity and moderate sweetness. This is an intense fig.”

Are there other high acid, intense figs for people who like that taste? Just so I don't have to rush out and bid on a Ponte Tresa fig tree any time soon.

Almost all of my fig trees are first year trees and I ate a number of well ripened mediocre figs last year. However, a few of my trees produced one or two figs that had a distinct sweetness and rich blend of subtle flavors that made them memorable. Since I’m the only one eating these figs (besides the usual army of critters), I would rather have a few remarkable figs spread out over the season than a messy glut of boring fruit all at once that no one wants to eat. Spending hours in the kitchen trying to make junky, fattening sweets like jams and preserves loaded with added sugar is not only a thankless chore and waste of time, it’s a caloric health and diet disaster.

HarveyC, one of the F4F regulars here, has opened up a new website today that offers a the widest variety of fig cuttings I’ve ever seen at reasonable prices: http://www.figaholics.com/cuttings.htm . His website also has helpful information and links to drool-worth pictures of figs from his fig trees. 

Thanks Gene. On this thread, Dennis said he had a fruit that was yellowish brown. Bass says his tree produced a “big flat yellow fig”. Everyone agreed it was a poor grower. No one describes its taste.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/tashkent-fig-5055174?trail=

 Vladis posted some pictures and Russian that Google translated as “The Soviet Union was not a variety of figs "Tashkent". It is a misnomer coined fan exclusively for commerce.” He added a nice picture with Russian that translated as: “I found a photo of the class "Uzbek yellow" in the US "Tashkent".
Fedy posted some pictures of a flat yellow fig with Russian that translated: “Uzbek yellow in my garden”.

So is Tashkent is also known as Uzbek Yellow, but not Sari Zybek?

There were older posts (from 2008) here about this fig from Uzbekistan by way of Raintree, but not too many recently. Has it fruited for anyone? It’s not listed by Raintree this year. I must have bought their last one last fall.
What is your experience growing this fig?

GeneDaniels said it might be the same as Sari Zybek.

Raintree 2012 described it as: 
"This green fig has light colored flesh and an excellent flavor. Raintree brought this heavy producer from Uzbekistan where it was the favorite among many cultivars in the garden of a local horticulturalist. It thrives in long, hot, dry summers and short, cold winters."

Rcantor, the Roughneck is 19 inches wide. The hand truck I have now is 21 inches, which is too big to manipulate around my crowded plants and bumpy paths. The luggage carrier I’ve been using is the perfect width, 12 ½ inches, but it’s not designed for pots. The pots still have to be lifted up and over onto it. The collapsible handle keeps collapsing.

Northfig, I think the same would be true for your dolly, as nice as it looks. Lifting is still a problem for me. A good hand truck just slides under the pot, tilt, duck, and off we go….

I’m in physical therapy for a lower back condition. Yesterday I did what Meg suggested, drag two pots ten feet to a better location and it was too much. Ten years ago that would not have been a problem, but times change. I have to do something different. Thanks for your comments and suggestions.

Would someone recommend a good gardening cart/dolly to buy for moving big potted trees around the yard like 15-20 gallon size nursery pots? I have a large dolly for moving refrigerators and large appliances, but it is just too big and clumsy for some of the narrow, bumpy paths in the packed garden. I was using a luggage carrier with larger wheels but it folds up too easily when I’m navigating around bushes and is breaking apart. Also, my lower back thinks it would be nice not to have to lift the pot to put it on the carrier. There are just too many choices on Amazon. I really don't need anything that folds up. From the reviews on Amazon, the fold ups have more on them to break.
What gardening cart do you use?

 I read other older discussions of this topic here: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/plant-pot-mover-6171398?highlight=dolly&pid=1276543420

 Bill's Fig mover is too wide for my packed garden.

The Roughneck Folding Aluminum Hand Truck (600-Lb. Capacity) was suggested. But would this also be too big and clumsy for a little old lady like myself to use? http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200586484_200586484

May I suggest you not limit yourself to whatever you find from your club sale and broaden your choices. The world is your market when it comes to choosing fig trees. When I was looking for some heat blast resistant figs for my SoCal area, members on another board recommended for full sun: Long Yellow, Zingarella/Aldo, Unk Pastilliere, Golden Celeste, El Molino, Panachee, Scott's Black, MBVS, Havasu Purple. “The figs do not dry up and stay nice and plump after the extreme sun exposure.” It was also suggested to grow Battaglia Green, California Brown Turkey, and, if you have the wasp, figs with a Calimyrna heritage.

You might think about growing VdB in a pot in full sun, then moving it to an afternoon shade location somewhere during the burning season, even if you have to construct some shade cloth. It has a delicious flavor and is worth the trouble.  

Too much time, money and effort is wasted trying to grow trees that refuse to grow where they are planted. Also trees that you baby for five or ten years only to produce fruit nothing will eat but fruit worms or a starving bird.

Check out the different fig flavors (search "fig flavor") and perhaps start with one of each, especially ones with good tasting breba crops so you get more than one crop a year. Then you can add choices as you discover the tastes you like best. You might fine tune your choices with several trees that offer a continuous succession of good fruit. It might take a little homework searching the fig boards but it’s worth it.

I have to warn you, you might discover you like ALL the figs you taste. Then you’re in big trouble. :) 

Thanks smatthew, brianm, and alanmercieca, for your comments. It will be interesting to try something new. 

I was just checking the measurement math, and the suggestion of 1-2 teaspoons per gallon is not right, I think.

If the suggested dilution should be 1:100, and one gallon is equal to 128 oz., then 1/100^th of that would be 1.26 oz.?

1 oz. = 2 Tablespoons, so 2 ½ Tablespoons per gallon would be about right, +/-, wouldn’t it? 

I wish there were more suggestions on garden product websites about how to measure smaller amounts of their products. Fifty gallons of water seems a bit much. 

It’s interesting that the pictures show different colored, different shaped figs. Could the breba be a different color from the main crop?

Harvey’s picture shows "Red Israel/Red Palestine" as a long, black fig that is ripe in mid July, so it’s probably a breba. The brebas of Brunswick on the Varietal Info site show a light colored fig with reddish to purple stripes. If the real Khurtmani is, as Harvey says, a lighter fig, and also equal to Brunswick, then what we all have from KK is something else?

 Below are pictures of my first “Red Israel/Red Palestine” ? fig (via Igor via KK). It’s a main crop, 10/24/15, pollinated.  It looks like the unknown Israeli fig below from http://bethmichelle.com/shrimp-bacon-and-figs-with-goat-cheese-quinoa-drizzled-with-fig-balsamic/. Does the sign in the picture give its name?

      

  Unknown Israeli fig

RR catalog describes it as: “Marrabout- A Smyrna type fig it needs the fig wasp for pollination. Large purplish-black skinned, strawberry fleshed fruit has excellent, rich, sweet flavor. Figs ripen over a long season and are great fresh and have the classic Smyrna nutty flavor caused by the fertile seeds.  Hardiness zones 8-10.” https://www.rollingrivernursery.com/products/628/20/fruit-trees/figs-ficus-carica/marrabout-detail

Herman had posted: "It appears that UCDAVIS has three Marabouts: 1.Marabout(Smyrna type), 2.MaraboutC(Common Fig), 3.Marabout/Gulbun (hybrid)"

I emailed RR and asked which Marabout was theirs?
Marc from Rolling River Nursery emailed me back: “Our Marrabout is from Davis, and I believe it is the one introduced by Condit, but I would have to dig deep in the records to find out. I'm not sure how different they are.”

Here is a picture of the inside of two figs that I pulled off last week and have been on the ground. I didn’t want to drain the tree since it's finally dormant. I tasted one fig. It was like a sour strawberry, -not ripe.
Out of ten seeds, eight sunk and two floated, so I guess the figs were 80% pollinated. We have a healthy fig wasp population here, (and fruit flies, wasps, bees, ants, grasshoppers, butterflies and scale).
The tree arrived bare root around last February, is a first year tree, so is probably still getting used to the climate here. It's in a five gallon pot.
As I mention above, Harvey’s same variety tree from the same nursery had ripe fruit last September but they were green, not black. Could it be another nursery mix up?