Nice looking figs. I could come by and help keep the relatives away : )

Im curious how the dark portuguese tasted in comparison to hardy chicago , was it as rich or just sweeter.

Every person has different taste buds. The hardy chicago is a bit different in flavor compared to Dark Portuguese. It's not necessarily sweeter or richer, just a little different and as good or better than Hardy Chicago. As you see in the photo, the Dark Portuguese is a bit smaller, and it wrinkles when fully ripe.
It's the kinda fig if you eat one you'll want more.

Yes your right about different taste buds. I look forward to tasting the dark portuguese in a year or 2.

Wouldn't have recognized any of them when compared to how they look in SD.

Is it the humidity that may change the appearance of these figs in different climates?

Bass that a good question i often wonder about as well. Why such a change from place to place. Is it different soil, humidity, sun hours , different air temps as that especially has me curiuos as to how much faster when a fig starts to appear to ripen as opposed to say in a colder clinate like in a zone im in 5 as oppoesed to say sunny california which has more sunny days or florida as well and would that make contribute to any taste difference if at all.
Very good question Bass as i have seen several post where pitangadiego has said they look different from as little as i think 200 miles from each other. Is that maybe a reason why so hard sometimes to accurately identify someones fig ?
I think DNA is a great thing is this regard, perhaps one day it will be easy to tell for the average gardener with a DNA test like a pregnancy test that would be great then so we all could tell types with a lot more certaincy.