The Best Tasting Fig Varieties | Their History & Reasoning

Want to grow the best tasting figs? Let this blog post act an introduction into how special figs can be. If you taste one of these varieties when picked perfectly ripe, I promise that you'll want to plant your own fig tree.

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[sandylove]

i liked the excel sheet you used to display on your previous videos

[FigsLife]

I also used to be a member of the old community figs4fun. That's where I got all my varieties. I used to go by the name Figs4Life.

Any old timer remember me?

[QualityGardener]

40 minutes went by quickly, this was an immersive video. Ross, great video, thank you.

[josephcarrera]

Hey Ross awesome video sooo much information had to watch twice 👍🏻

[orangetuono]

EXCELLENT video. Thanks for the hard work. I'll look for your Fig sale and of course obsess over the great Fig info.

[drea]

LOL I disagree that the average person would have no problem finding some of these! Had to get on a waiting list for Black Madeira. Never even heard of the Argentile one before this.
I would like to see a list of the best figs which are also easy to find for the newbie.

[shake_shells]

I wish the growing season is longer in my area. A lot of fig varieties won’t even have a chance to ripen on the tree.

[beavoicenotanecho]

The best fig tree variety is the one that it's already an adult tree in your backyard 😁

[thegooch]

Holy crap!!! You don’t think Peter’s honey is a tasty fig? I absolutely love mine and I have about three other honey figs on my yard. I’m in Maryland so we basically have the same weather for it.

[sandylove]

i wish you showed the excel sheet like the previous videos you have, i love your knowledge and your expertise

[stanhill]

It would have been nice to have a list that one could copy, what good is the information if there's no way to get them ?

[great]

My CdD Gris has been drastically more vigorous and more winter hardy that my three Blanc trees.

[vicknairfirm]

“Gateway fig”. Lol. Yes it’s addictive

[lindaberri]

Hi Ross this is my first year growing figs I’m learning a lot from you I’m in zone 6a I stored my in containers fig in my basement but yesterday I found out they woke up what can I do now there in the dark thank you

[JudithBrummett]

OK! here is my situation. I bought a fig tree about 4-5 years ago specific for my area. It said it would produce fruit after 2 years. It produced one bug large yummy sticky fig and never got another one. BUT! it is not a tree anymore. It is a bush. I have it on a high spot (I am in NC) a good distance from creek so it is not over watered. I fertilized it one year with Miricle grow for fruit trees. IT got plenty more twiggy branches but still no fruit. One year I did not water or fertilize it at all. Same results. The twiggy stems from last year are still there an look dead but it gets more every year. What do I do to get a) fruit and b) tree Vs bush

[dchambers]

8:00 Proof the Fig Boss has utterly defeated his arch nemesis from his boyhood, the Paragraph.

[mukaram]

Hi Ross ur vidros sre very informative could u guide me a hone green fig vsriety name of turkey redidh amber interior snd slghtly yrllowish green apart from calling those symerns or calymerna

[jeffreylapooh]

Do I have to up pot my plants from 1 gallon to 5 then 10 or can I go straight to the 15 gallon from the 1 gallon.

[philblum]

@RossRaddi Hi Ross! 2 questions: You talk about the prosciutto variety. Is this the same as that known as unk prosciutto? And several people including Evan Durtchi (SP?) have suggested Calderona and Bass's Favorite Fig are indistinguishable, or maybe the same. Your thoughts??

[hamitfusha]

How do you compare “Black Celeste” to “Black Madeira” ?