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I am growing over a 100 different varieties and have tasted around 50 total. Zephian lives in an excellent climate for figs and can grow the absolute best ones without difficulty.That said, VdB is a fantastic tasting variety. one of the very best. It is also very easily available. Strawberry Verte is great too.My top 10 list of relatively easily available and tasty figs for your climate in no particular order:1. Black Madeira/Figo Preto2. Smith3. Italian 2584. Genovese Nero (AF) not Rob's Genovese Nero5. Strawberry Verte/ Adriatic JH/ Green Ischia6. Desert King7. Panache8. Bourjassotte Grise9. Grise de St Jean10. Violette de Bourdeaux/Negronnne I am not impressed with Ronde de Bourdeaux, not tasty unless completely ripe. And it is a fig for cooler climates.
Celeste is a great fig. Somehow it doesnt seem to do all that well in the west coast, i.e. drops figs.Improved Celeste is earlier and doesn't drop figs. It might be worth growing. But the earlier mentioned varieties are tastier IMO.
Quote from: ramv on May 08, 2018, 01:32:48 AMCeleste is a great fig. Somehow it doesnt seem to do all that well in the west coast, i.e. drops figs.Improved Celeste is earlier and doesn't drop figs. It might be worth growing. But the earlier mentioned varieties are tastier IMO.Not sure of its performance in other climes, but here on the upper Texas gulf coast I have never had a fig dropproblem with celeste. They hold and produce a delicious, closed eye fig around early to mid July.
Thanks! I'm a novice fig grower - would it be expected for a potted fig that's planted out in the spring to abort its fruit that first year?What's done is done, but just curious.