Proven Varieties

 A reliable fig from the LSU fig breeding program. A great honey flavor--early and reliable. 

The go-to San Pedro fig. Great for short seasons with mild climates like the Pacific Northwest.

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!

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 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 is a good Hardy Chicago-type fig. It is a workhorse variety that produces a lot of good figs year after year.

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!

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! 

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.

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.

This is fig that can have a unique creamy banana-like flavor when fully ripe. Very tasty!

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.

Moscatel Preto is a large early fig that has a great sweet caramel flavor and consistently produces good quality fruit on the east coast.

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.

A striped variety with a good berry flavor.

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.

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 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.

A top performing fig! Great flavor, easily ripened, and good performance in humidity and bugs. One of the best varieties!

Another variety that is well known and produces great quality berry figs. Similar or the same as Bourjassotte Grise and Violet Sepor.

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.

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.

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 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

Champagne is a very good honey fig. It has performed well for me several years in a row.

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 has a good Violet de Bordeaux-like flavor with less of the splitting issues that have occurred for me with Violet de Bordeaux. 

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 is a large green berry fig with superb flavor. Its surprising to me that this fig doesn't get more attention.

Probably not actually a proven winner in my book , but for lack of a better place to put this one... Sucrette

This is a Spanish fig that a lot of growers have said good things about. It has a nice berry flavor.

This is a Black Madeira type fig that can have a really good complex berry flavor. 

I-258 has a good taste if you can get it to ripen properly. 

A surprising amount of flavor from this fig despite the fact that it was slightly under ripe. A promising variety!

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.

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.

 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 is a honey fig that seems to taste pretty good year after year. 

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 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 is a good berry fig that is well known for having a very dark pulp when well ripened.

This is a nice tasting berry fig variety from France.

Although this fig is in the "proven winners" section, it can have splitting issues. Otherwise, it is a good berry fig.

This is a green skinned fig with a sweet strawberry flavor.

A beautiful fig with green and yellow stripes that turns to purple when ripe. A sweet berry flavor.

A great tasting fig with a strong berry favor. Ripens late in the season.

I thought this was my best tasting fig in 2019 and 2020. It is a late ripening variety but it can taste really good.

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.

Gentile has a good taste, but for me personally, it hasn't been my best performing Adriatic-type.

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 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.

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 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. 

CLBC is a Black Madeira type variety. It should have many of the same advantages and disadvantages as the other BM types.

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 is a good quality fig that can have a nice berry flavor.

This variety has the great Col de Dame taste with the additional benefit of having beautiful purple striping. 

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.