Ben B's Top 10 fig varieties for 2018 

i like how you guys tasting figs like people sampling new wine , cheers !

DUDE! I SOOOO appreciate your vids like this! It's speed is perfect, and so informative for us who aren't at all in the know about figs... It lets us know the ones to look for in order to get started with the better options out there... THANK YOU !!!!

Interesting video, Ben. I have my first collection of figs rooting as we speak. This is helpful for trying to determine future varieties. Keep up the great work 👍

Mmmm, my mouth is watering! Never heard of White Madeira. That Italian one was beautiful!

Thank you. Very well done. As another commenter said, I’m discovering (fresh) figs later in life (50 ish). Regretful that I haven’t been growing them my whole life but am definitely going to make up for lost time. And what better video to get me off on the right foot. There are many videos for learning to grow but none this well done about what to grow. Much appreciation, my friend. May your days and figs be many.

Thank you for that video I always enjoy your videos Ben. Your videos were the spark that put me on this fig journey.

It's hard watching and listening to you eating those amazing figs. But I'm watching anyway. Thanks for a great video.

Good afternoon from Auckland, New Zealand.

Man, I'm learning and growing figs way too late. Wish I knew and started way before.

Thank you for this! I have a Col de Dame Noir and now am even more eager for it to start producing for me.

Nice! I have 5 of these rooted. Hoping to some day add the Golden Riverside and Black Zadar.

Thank you for such a nice review. This video was very helpful for me.

thank you for that video its a wealth of information. keep them coming.

Wow Nice collections. I have three figs little trees but i dont know their names. I Just bought Them 8years ago from the open market. Watching from Belgium

Wow Ben I love this video Makes me drool for some figs I would love to have a cutting of the Golden Riverside would you know please where can I get some thanks ISAAC

This is my first time enjoying your video and really loved how you rated different varieties of figs. After watching this video, I've googled to buy a Ben's golden riverside fig tree but could not find. Will you please share where I can buy the tree? or at least few branches?

One word-WOW!!!

great video right to the point that's how you do it love the music as well

Honorable mention #1: Lampeira Preta Honorable mention #2: Qaalat Al Madiq #10: Kathleen's Black #9: Socorro Black #8: Italian 258 (I258) #7: Takoma Violet #6: JFE (justfruitsandexotics) Black Madeira #5: White Madeira #1 #4: Col De Dame Noir #3: Vincenzo Breba #2: Black Zadar Breba #1: Golden Riverside You're welcome...

Wow, what a great review, thank you. Just wondering if it is too late this year to hunt for some cuttings ?

Hello You !! Great to meet you. Can you tell me the 10 best figs you have eaten (4/2020). I'm Hung Nguyen from Vietnam. Thank you

Hello Ben love all your video that u post , I know u have so many varieties of figs. Possible could u please like to sale some cutting of Golden Riverside , I just start growing fig for a second year and in hot weather in Florida .

This is my first time enjoying your RU-vid channel. Great work! I’m looking forward to more great content from you. Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it. I would love to espalier some figs up our southern-facing three-story back wall to our house. I probably have enough room for about 5 feet plants. I wish so much that I could taste the figs that you’ve listed, but it looks like a fantastic list from the literally zillions of varieties available. If you were to pick five of the best, which would you pick? I live in Center City Philadelphia which I believe is zone 7b? Though we sometimes have an excessively cold day of sub-zero temperatures, we are in a very protected area-kind of a large courtyard style conglomeration of several town houses nestled between two streets. I think the trees would get a lot of protection from the cold here. Let me know what you think and thank you so much for your fabulous content!

I have four figs in Turks and Caicos... LUS Purple and a yellow one do the best

Wish you would post 2022 line up. Getting tired of waiting.

I would love to know which of these will grow in ground in the Seattle area. I'm a bit south of you and want a fig orchard but do not want to mess with potted figs. It would be great if you added this information next year! Thanks.

i like Black mediera... but i dont have this varietes

Great video, Ben! How cold hardy exactly is the Golden Riverside you have? Zone 8? 7? 6? I just bought one on ebay. Thanks for your contributions to the fig world.

Very nice I am planting too

Would be really helpful for choosing a fig to know if you are growing a particular variety in a greenhouse. Thank you

great content, i love your hard work you put into your videos. 👍

Great video. I wonder how Black Zadar will do in Florida.

Hello very good coverage.What about BROWN TURKEY.AND YELLOW SPANISH SANPEDRO...

Hi Ben, ..I'm pupu from indonesia. so amazing review. How can I get those top 10fig varieties? or some cuttings

Thank you for this info !

The guy taste testing the BM with you has that sophisticated British or Indian accent. I can't really tell. Also that Vincenzo looks extremely interesting but I've already got too many plants and i'm only a year in. I really love your content, but I don't want 500 plants lol. the 30 I have atm is plenty

I'm trying to identify my lost tag fig I think it's a brown turkey or Chicago hardy. I live in federal way. It has 3 and 5 lobed leaves and grows a crop of crackly purple small figs with red inside that ripen in fall and sometimes freeze first. The berba figs fall off in spring and don't ripen. What do you think?

I wish Ben would post a list of names of the figs

Any advice on where I can get a cutting of black zadar and qaalat al Madiq?

Is there any way to save a fig cutting from mold? I bought cuttings and did the lasagna method and they molded. I think i forgot to put holes in the container. I cant think of any other reason they molded. It was the Black Madeira ones that I bought. I'm trying to save them. I switched over to the 2 plastic cup method and that seems to be working for most but the Black Madeira are still green but they seem to not be making buds like the others.

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When im young there a lot of tree like this but we dont know it is fruit.we dont eat because my mother and other older said it is poison now i know its fruit but sad no fruit like this already in our backyard

Figs! Nom! Nom! Nom!

Are you going to have any of these cuttings for sale?

Dear Ben Greetings from Puerto Rico again, hope this message finds you well. I just got to see this video today and find it very interesting. As on the past I would like to ask you for your help. I would like to ask you if you could send me some cuttings of this varieties you are showing here. I ask you since I don't know how to get the best of the figs varieties you already know. Your help would be greatly appreciated. I do have one someone gave me and I don't know the exact variety it is and I do have a tree I would like to share with you if there is no problem with you so you may check it out and let me know what variety is, when you find out. I sent to you some pictures but you weren't sure what the variety was. Please let me know.

I have figs also my friend in my garden

ما شاء الله على نعمه علينا.

Need to know. On how early the maturity is for each

Very interesting, and brown turkey from Brazil ? Did you know them?

Honestly I wish I did not click on this video now I am at a dead end. Want to grow some of these figs but no where to go

I think the best fig as of now is the oro Rosetta. Sorry golden Riverside

Hey Ben is there a fig festival in Seattle Bruce in snohomish

Where to find these varieties as cuttings or starts in Puget Sound? Marysville?

This is making me hungry.

I would like to plant a Golden Riverside! Im staying in the costal south, hot and humid weather, could plant them in 5 gallon pots at the corridor. Would you send me a Golden Riverside cutting? I would pay for the cuttings and shipping. Where i am, we do not have green honey figs imported. Its really a pity. I saw Lou Monti's figs videos describing Golden Riverside as Golden Rainbow, no? Please PM

Love your videos Ben◉‿◉

Hey Ben, just do a top 12 Fig Varieties video next time! Just a thought

Do you sell cuttings? I’m very interested in purchasing some if you do.

No peter's honey?

Wow, I need clipping from all these. I have 5 different types of Fig trees but none of these

DO YOU SEND CUTTINGS OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY WITH FEE?? I WISHTO PLANT SOME AND TRY PLANTING!! I’M FROM MANILA, PHILIPPINES! TY ☺️

What on is the best for Chicago cold weather?

Hi Ben I am in the Uk Would like a cuttings of Golden riverside and black Madeira , I really don’t want wait for a long time then it turn to be the wrong variety If it’s possible let me know the methods of payment and I will send you the address Thank you in advance

Are you really growing these fig plants in SEATTLE ?

Hi Ben, is that possible to graft different figs on one fig tree?

are you going to be selling fig cuttings this year?

Do you deliver to Belgium In Euroup? if yes i want to make an order, please let me know.

2019? 2020?

Dear where the brown turkey stand

Anyone know the name of the song at 14:03?

Ben Can you tell me where you bought your Black Madeira KK cutting from. Just want to make sure it is a KK. Also wanted to know if you sell any of your cuttings

Black Zadarrrr

What about brown turkey and black Genoa? Are they really basic figs? As they are all that’s really available here (Aus) (unless I want to go crazy hunting around). What are your thoughts on these two varieties?

Hi Ben, thanks for the awesome insights! I was wondering, do you know of a source that I can buy or get some golden riverside tree or cuttings? I’ve googled and have had no luck finding one yet. Thanks. Say

I would love to get some "plantings" of this GOLDEN RIVERSIDE, it's just what I've been looking for. Can you tell me where I can get some?

How can I get the cutting branch?

Hi, I’ve been watching your videos and I really enjoy it, and I’ve been wondering if you can sell me a cuttings from your golden riverside fig.

Where can I get the golden riverside and black zadar I live in California and really like figs wanted to grow my own in my backyard anyone know where I can get these 2 or some cuttings

Soooooo, how can we get a chance to taste this Golden Riverside fig? Are you selling cuttings?

where can i buy cuttings of Ben's Golden Riverside? Im from Philippines

what about panache fig??did you ever tasted it??

where could i buy a bunch of good seeds to grow fig? please help

Thanks- do you know where online I can purchase a bens golden riverside fig, from a trusted grower of this variety?

Where can I find bens golden riverside figs please????

Ben, how is White Madeira different from Black Madeira??

Hi Ben, I grow figs by seeds with high success. I wonder if you can send me (swap) some dried figs to grow from seeds. Thanks

Hi Ben can we buy Golden Riverside cuttings ???

Have you tested ‘Olympian’ fig?

I would like both cuttings, as well as a few thousand seeds of each of these cultivars. I'm going to be developing new cultivars from them. If you are willing to provide me the DNA from of charge, then I will provide a free tree of every cultivar I develop from the DNA you send me. One of the things that I would be working on is stimulating cluster fruiting as in mulberry.

Where can I buy theses variety plants

Were to get golden riverside or a cutting

about "ronde de bordeaux" ???????????????

Can you send me cut tree from gold riverside ?

Could I get some cuttings?

hi ben i watch many of your videos but i dont have figs.. can you donate me some here in philippines i loved watching your videos

Thanks To share this vidéo, I' m leaving in France, and i tried last season To grow fig tree by cutting , it Was my first test with local fig tree in France après, I would like To produce a lot of variété of fig trees , and your vidéo could help me .. My question is : do you sell some fig curling and rooting of all those variéty that you shows in tour vidéo . Would you please help me in that way ? Manu Thanks Serge from France

Where can I buy some cuttings

BEN

Ben

Hello everyone.I am from Kashmir India.Need Golden Riverside fig/black zadar trees or cuttings for growing in my garden.Can anyone help