My Top 10 Best Tasting Fig Varieties 

In one of your videos you talked about what you would do if you started all over and said you would not collect so many varieties but would focus on propagating the ones that are your best. I would say that it’s probably taken all these years of trying all these varieties to find out what figs perform well and are really tasty. You do a great service for us who live in a similar climate by sharing this vast experience so we don’t have to grow 140 different varieties to figure out which we like the best! We don’t all have the ability to grow so many figs. It’s helpful to get ideas of what might be best for us. The local nurseries are, for most of us, not a great source. What they carry, IF they have figs, is seriously limited and not necessarily a good variety. If we go online, there’s such a dizzying array of choices, it’s impossible to know what to choose. I like the idea you put forth in another video of choosing figs from different flavor profiles. By giving us an idea of what varieties fit into those profiles, we can do that. We can also choose varieties that will fit our climate. You provide such a wealth of information for us. Are you making videos every day? It almost seems like it. They are all excellent. You are a fig missionary! I’m excited to be embarking on my own fig journey. I did not expect to be acquiring several varieties but I bought a little Celeste from a local woman who loves propagating plants. And then I got some cuttings of HC, VdB, and LSU purple because they were not expensive. And I decided it’s okay for me to get a few varieties because how else will I know what does well for me and what I like? I’m retirement age, I don’t want to waste a lot of time finding out what are the best figs for me! My only complaint is that some of these are not available to us but enough of them are that I should not complain. Thanks again.

I like that you sort based on flavor alone, other videos for your climate, etc. very helpful

Ross you are converting me to becoming a fig geek. Love learning from your videos. I am buying fig cuttings, but they are expensive!

I am Albanian, we grew up with figs. I managed to grow a turkey brown from a brach in Philly(outside), which took three years to fruit. Spoilage, birds, make it quite impossible to enjoy as soon as they start ripening it rains.I am a fanatic for figs I just bought a home with land in Huntingdon Valley I want to plant every variety you mentioned please help me man if you can spare branches I will pot them myself if you want to get paid.

Violet de Bordeaux nr 1

Hello, Ross! About hative d’argenteuil, I have talked about it with some french growers and none of them knew about any fig with that name grown in France, and said that it’s actually a name that some other french fig got when it reached the US, and pointed out that it may be the same as Eaubonne or blue celeste. Whats your thought on that? It would be helpful for me to find out any synonim to then be able to localise it in french nurseries. Thanks!

If you didn't get many Black Madeira figs, it's probably because you didn't have the wasp. Even varieties of figs that don't require the wasp to produce mature fruit will still do better if the wasp is present.

Very off brand/topic here, but I'm curious what the normal folks like yourself are thinking of the riots going on right now in Philly? News blowing it out of proportion or is it legitimately concerning? Also thanks for all the fig education I've learned a ton over the past year! No channel I've found comes close to yours in terms of experience with the fruit.

Where did you source your Verdino del Nord? I’m wondering if there’s more than one “version” of this one floating around the community.

If I want to grow a compact size fig < 5ft and taste good. I am in north California 9b. Which variety should I choose?

have you tried de la roca in ground in zone 7?

He could have said the main thing in three minutes, but turned this topic into 33 minutes of empty conversation. This is terrible