An excellent honey fig selected by Louisiana State University and one that does very well for us here in the Pacific Northwest, producing both a breba crop and a fairly early main crop. Excellent honey flavor and an easy variety to grow in many different climates.
A super tasty melon flavored fig that we’ve really enjoyed. Main crop figs are fairly early and will usually ripen here in Western Oregon. We’re not sure about breba crop yet but it reportedly has a large and tasty breba crop.
One of our favorite new varieties we’ve been trialing, Nerucciolo d’Elba is proving to be one of the earliest main crop figs we’ve grown, right up there with Ronde de Bordeaux! And the figs are wonderful, small in size which we like for the ratio of skin to flesh with an excellent rich berry flavor. And on top of the super early main crop it also produces a breba crop! Prolific from a young age and a vigorous grower too.
*This tree does not have variegated foliage!!!* We have found that the variegation on Jolly Tiger to be incredibly unstable and have found almost all cuttings we’ve ever received of it to revert to non-variegated foliage. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a great variety! The figs and branches are still very striped even when the foliage is not variegated and the figs are some of the largest of any striped fig we’ve seen. They start out looking like a Panache fig with vibrant stripes that eventually fade to be nearly invisible once the skin ripens to being a deep black and a bright red flesh. So far we’ve only received main crop figs from Jolly Tiger that ripened mid season and were incredibly delicious.
An ever changing selection of figs from our collection that we are either still trialing, eventually introducing, or are culling from the herd.
An excellent dark skinned originally thought to be from Morocco, it is prized for its excellent flavor and productivity. We recommend this one for drier climates as it seems to split and sour under too much rain and humidity, but it is excellent all along the West Coast. So far we’ve only had main crop figs from it, so unsure if it produces breba, but the main crop figs are excellent.
A fantastic fig from Southern France with super rich jammy flavors. It is a bit similar to Black Madeira or Noir de Barbentane, but has a flavor unique to itself. Has not produced breba crops for us here and the main crop is not the earliest, but worth growing in warmer climates, hot microclimates or with a bit of season extension for its richly flavored figs.
Domenico Tauro Fig Tree is an Italian variety that has great potential for short season growers due to its large breba crop. Figs are purplish brown and quite large and delicious.
A fig that’s been growing on our northern fence line for years and always surprises us with its ability to produce 2 delicious crops each year. The story behind this one is a little convoluted and apparently dates back to England, but is a great performer for us here in the Pacific Northwest. Not our absolute favorite in regards to flavor but figs are quite large and it’s a very productive variety.
One of the many unofficial LSU fig breeding program releases that have been widely circulated due to their usefulness in humid climates and great flavor. LSU Red produces small figs similar in size to Celeste, (one of the parents in many of the LSU crosses), but with a red skin. Very prolific and resistant to splitting and cracking in areas of high humidity or rainfall. Ripens mid-season and best suited to warmer climates.
