A reliable fig from the LSU fig breeding program. A great honey flavor--early and reliable.
Desert King
Improved Celeste
Desert King
The go-to San Pedro fig. Great for short seasons with mild climates like the Pacific Northwest.
Improved Celeste
Improved Celeste
Improved Celeste
This is a benchmark variety for early figs. When Improved Celeste ripens, it means your fig season has started. A great sugar fig; good in humidity; a proven winner for sure!
Smith
Black Bethlehem
Improved Celeste
This is widely regarded as one of the best tasting figs, and probably the best all-around fig for the east coast. If you can only have one fig in your collection, this is probably the one to get.
Malta Black
Black Bethlehem
Black Bethlehem
Malta Black is one of my earliest varieties and it produces a lot of great berry flavored fruit. The taste is a simple berry flavor with nice sweetness. A great reliable producer on the east coast and for short seasons!
Black Bethlehem
Black Bethlehem
Black Bethlehem
Black Bethlehem is a good Hardy Chicago-type fig. It is a workhorse variety that produces a lot of good figs year after year.
RED LEBANESE BEKAA VALLEY
RED LEBANESE BEKAA VALLEY
RED LEBANESE BEKAA VALLEY
RLBV is one of my earliest figs. It is a Hardy Chicago-type berry fig that tastes and performs better than the standard Hardy Chicago. Good resistance to rain. Great fig!
Petite Aubique
RED LEBANESE BEKAA VALLEY
RED LEBANESE BEKAA VALLEY
A Violet de Bordeaux (VdB) type fig that I prefer to the actual VdB fig. This fig has a really tight eye and does well in humid weather with lots of bugs. Great taste!
White Triana
RED LEBANESE BEKAA VALLEY
Hative d'Argenteuil
This is a variety that is a strong grower and produces a lot of fruit every year. Despite the fruit size it seems to do well in the East Coast weather.
Hative d'Argenteuil
Hative d'Argenteuil
Hative d'Argenteuil
This is a beautiful powdery blue-purple fig with a great flavor. It has a very tight eye and is one of my best performers in terms of humidity and bug resistance.
Izbat an Naj
Hative d'Argenteuil
Izbat an Naj
This is fig that can have a unique creamy banana-like flavor when fully ripe. Very tasty!
LSU Purple
Hative d'Argenteuil
Izbat an Naj
LSU Purple takes a few years to develop a good flavor, but once it does it is widely regarded as a great sugar fig with some nice additional flavors.
Varieties
Moscatel Preto
Paratjal Rimada
Moscatel Preto
Moscatel Preto is a large early fig that has a great sweet caramel flavor and consistently produces good quality fruit on the east coast.
LSU Tiger
Paratjal Rimada
Moscatel Preto
This fig has so many great qualities! Its very early, it has a super sweet berry flavor, and it will tend to dry rather than spoil on the tree.
Paratjal Rimada
Paratjal Rimada
Green Michurinska
A striped variety with a good berry flavor.
Green Michurinska
Bourjassotte Grise
Green Michurinska
Green Michurinska is an adriatic-type fig that seems to ripen about 1-2 weeks earlier than my other adriatic-types. It has a sweet berry flavor.
Bourjassotte Grise
Bourjassotte Grise
Bourjassotte Grise
This variety is widely regarded as one of the best berry fig varieties out there. Many people say it is similar to Violet Sepor and Socorro Black.
Pastiliere
Bourjassotte Grise
Bourjassotte Grise
Pastiliere is a variety that is highly regarded by many growers for its unique taste. When well ripened this variety has a super juicy, sweet flavor.
White Madeira #1
Nerucciolo d'Elba
White Madeira #1
A top performing fig! Great flavor, easily ripened, and good performance in humidity and bugs. One of the best varieties!
Socorro Black
Nerucciolo d'Elba
White Madeira #1
Another variety that is well known and produces great quality berry figs. Similar or the same as Bourjassotte Grise and Violet Sepor.
Nerucciolo d'Elba
Nerucciolo d'Elba
Marseilles Black VS (MBVS)
This is a tiny fig, probably the smallest of all my fig varieties. It has a sweet flavor with a slightly bitter skin. The eye is very tight.
Marseilles Black VS (MBVS)
Marseilles Black VS (MBVS)
Marseilles Black VS (MBVS)
This is a Hardy Chicago-type fig that produces good quality figs each year. It is one of five varieties that I have in the ground.
Violet Sepor
Marseilles Black VS (MBVS)
Blanche de Deux Saisons
This is the third of three excellent varieties that are very similar to each other: Violet Sepor, Bourjassotte Grise, and Socorro Black.
Blanche de Deux Saisons
Marseilles Black VS (MBVS)
Blanche de Deux Saisons
Blanche de Deux Saisons is an adriatic-type fig. Its a good fig that's been around for a while but is not as commonly grown as some of the other adriatics
Varieties
Champagne
Negra d'Agde
Negra d'Agde
Champagne is a very good honey fig. It has performed well for me several years in a row.
Negra d'Agde
Negra d'Agde
Negra d'Agde
Negra d'Agde has a strong berry flavor. It ripened some really tasty figs for me last year, and I'm looking forward to more from this variety again this year.
Petite Negri
Negra d'Agde
Petite Negri
Petite Negri has a good Violet de Bordeaux-like flavor with less of the splitting issues that have occurred for me with Violet de Bordeaux.
Black Greek
Black Greek
Petite Negri
This is a Hardy Chicago-type variety, and is one of five varieties that I have in the ground. Every east coast grower should have at least one Hardy Chicago-type.
Dalmatie
Black Greek
Dalmatie
Dalmatie is a large green berry fig with superb flavor. Its surprising to me that this fig doesn't get more attention.
Sucrette
Black Greek
Dalmatie
Probably not actually a proven winner in my book , but for lack of a better place to put this one... Sucrette
Cardenillo
Italian 258
Cardenillo
This is a Spanish fig that a lot of growers have said good things about. It has a nice berry flavor.
Preto
Italian 258
Cardenillo
This is a Black Madeira type fig that can have a really good complex berry flavor.
Italian 258
Italian 258
Capoll Curt Negra
I-258 has a good taste if you can get it to ripen properly.
Capoll Curt Negra
Capoll Curt Negra
Capoll Curt Negra
A surprising amount of flavor from this fig despite the fact that it was slightly under ripe. A promising variety!
Dels Ermitans
Capoll Curt Negra
St Martin (VR)
This is a variety with a very sweet berry flavor. Its very tasty, but it ripens late so it is not a good choice for growers with short seasons.
St Martin (VR)
Capoll Curt Negra
St Martin (VR)
This is a yellow skinned fig with a berry interior that holds up well to east coast growing conditions. It has a very tight eye.
Varieties
Sao Miguel Roxo
Sao Miguel Roxo
Sao Miguel Roxo
Sao Miguel Roxo is a good tasting variety that is a vigorous grower and produces a lot of figs. It also goes by the name Azores Dark.
Yellow Greek
Sao Miguel Roxo
Sao Miguel Roxo
Yellow Greek is a honey fig that seems to taste pretty good year after year.
Ischia Black
Sao Miguel Roxo
Bourjassotte Noire
Ischia Black can have a Black Madeira-like flavor. It can be a challenge to fully ripen these figs in my climate but they still taste good slightly underripe.
Bourjassotte Noire
Bourjassotte Noire
Bourjassotte Noire
Bourjassotte Noire is a well known French variety that produces good quality berry figs with a great taste. A great addition for a serious fig grower.
Galicia Negra
Bourjassotte Noire
Galicia Negra
Galicia Negra is a good berry fig that is well known for having a very dark pulp when well ripened.
La Bourgeoise
Bourjassotte Noire
Galicia Negra
This is a nice tasting berry fig variety from France.
LSU Black
Martinenca Rimada
Strawberry verte
Although this fig is in the "proven winners" section, it can have splitting issues. Otherwise, it is a good berry fig.
Strawberry verte
Martinenca Rimada
Strawberry verte
This is a green skinned fig with a sweet strawberry flavor.
Martinenca Rimada
Martinenca Rimada
Martinenca Rimada
A beautiful fig with green and yellow stripes that turns to purple when ripe. A sweet berry flavor.
Col de Dame Roja
Madeira Island Black
Martinenca Rimada
A great tasting fig with a strong berry favor. Ripens late in the season.
Adriatic JH
Madeira Island Black
Madeira Island Black
I thought this was my best tasting fig in 2019 and 2020. It is a late ripening variety but it can taste really good.
Madeira Island Black
Madeira Island Black
Madeira Island Black
This is a Black Madeira type variety that many regard as one of the finest tasting varieties. This variety can be difficult to ripen in my climate.
Varieties
Gentile
Col de Dame Grise
De la Roca
Gentile has a good taste, but for me personally, it hasn't been my best performing Adriatic-type.
De la Roca
Col de Dame Grise
De la Roca
De la Roca is a variety from the collection of Montserrat Pons. It has a good taste but has always ripened late in the season for me.
Col de Dame Grise
Col de Dame Grise
Bordissot Negra Rimada
Col de Dame Grise is known as being one of the best tasting figs. It has a rich berry flavor, a jammy texture, and a deep red colored pulp.
Bordissot Negra Rimada
Colonel Littman's Black Cross
Bordissot Negra Rimada
BNR is a variety that is widely recognized as a top tier variety. It has beautiful striping and a great sweet berry flavor.
Craven's Craving
Colonel Littman's Black Cross
Colonel Littman's Black Cross
Craven's Craving is a Black Madeira-type variety. It has the same great taste and growing condition limitations as the other high quality Black Madeira type varieties.
Colonel Littman's Black Cross
Colonel Littman's Black Cross
Colonel Littman's Black Cross
CLBC is a Black Madeira type variety. It should have many of the same advantages and disadvantages as the other BM types.
Col De Dame Noir
Col de Dame Mutante
Col De Dame Noir
I ripened my Col de Dame Noir figs under grow lights and they were some of my best tasting figs of the season.
Ponte Tresa
Col de Dame Mutante
Col De Dame Noir
Ponte Tresa is a good quality fig that can have a nice berry flavor.
Col de Dame Mutante
Col de Dame Mutante
Col de Dame Gegantina
This variety has the great Col de Dame taste with the additional benefit of having beautiful purple striping.
Col de Dame Gegantina
Col de Dame Gegantina
Col de Dame Gegantina
This is another great Col de Dame variety. This one has a green skin with the rich berry flavor that the CDD figs are known for.
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