A unique fig from Southern France, Ravin de Calce is particularly handsome with shiny black skin and a bright strawberry flesh. Produces a decent sized breba crop followed by a very productive main crop. Both are delicious with flavors of sweet berries and honey!
A most excellent early ripening fig, similar in many ways to Chicago Hardy but even earlier ripening and with a thicker skin. It consistently ripens its main crop for us here in Portland, even in the years when we have a late start to summer. Excellent flavor and it’s our good man Jeff’s favorite fig!
From an old homestead growing near the shores of Lago Rupanco in northern Patagonia, this fig produces wonderfully, even in that very cool maritime climate, as it has a large and productive breba crop. This is almost certainly a Black Mission fig, as this was one of the more common varieties being introduced to the Americas in the 18th and 19th century, though the leaf shape isn’t an exact match, so we’re keeping the Rupanco tag on it. But it is effectively Black Mission, a long beloved fig in California, and one that has been underutilized in cooler climates as it seems the word has not gotten out about how productive and delicious its breba crop is.
For years we’ve been looking to find a fig that produces an abundance of breba figs that are dark skinned with a rich berry flavor, and we’ve finally found one! Nero 600m figs are similar to Negronne and other Bordeaux style figs, but produces about as many breba figs as Desert King.
An extremely prolific and early ripening fig, and one that doesn’t waste its time producing as we often see young plants in one gallons already producing little figlets. Sangue Dolce is similar to St. Rita, Chicago Hardy and the other Etna figs.
A classic fig that has been grown in the United States for many decades where it is particularly popular in the Southern US. Smith performs very well in the humid conditions of the eastern states, and we’ve noticed it is one of the better ones at not splitting when we ripen them in humid greenhouses.
Thermalito is a wild California fig seedling that has proven to be delicious parthenocarpic, producing figs even without the presence of the fig wasp, and is apparently even better when pollinated. Figs are similar to the best of the Adriatic figs with an intense berry flavor, deep red flesh and a yellow-green skin that gets sugar spots, and lucky for us in northern climates, it actually ripens early in the season!
A fig bred by Ira Condit at the University of California, Deanna Fig Tree is an excellent choice for growers all over the country producing a very large breba crop as well as a significant main crop. Figs are very large with a yellow skin and sweet amber flesh.
The Afghan fig is an interesting and cold hardy fig species from mountainous areas of the Middle East that we’ve long been curious about but have up until now have only grown the clone ‘Silver Lyre’, which has stunning foliage but produces inedible caprifigs.
Yellow Neches is an extremely early ripening fig that is one of our most reliable producers for main crop figs. Figs are yellow skinned with an amber flesh and once perfectly ripe are jam packed with tropical flavor. Size of the figs isn’t huge, but it produces a ton of them.
