Improved Celeste will ripe for sure there.

I ended up getting a Negronne and a Vern’s Brown Turkey from One Green World. Depending on how they do over the next year or two I might go with one or two more in containers, but hopefully I will enjoy the two I have. Thanks for the advice! Grantham’s Royal was tempting but a) hard to find and b) there were a lot of reports of it dropping / splitting in Seattle online so I went with VBT, which will hopefully be dependable here if not 10/10 in flavor and will ripen two crops some years.

I'll be interested to hear a report back in the future. I have had a Negronne in the ground for over 5 years and have yet failed to get a single ripe fig off it.

I make this stupid mistake to plant Vern brown Turkey and few other waste your time fig trees in ground for few years, Very low breba production and bland main crop, It might take few more years for tasty figs. Only Desert king is best, It has large crop of tasty fig 1st yera and every year and their taste get better every year. My suggestion is that plant Desert king in ground, and you check with Ben@seattle your tube. Plant them in pot.

Ben top 10 fig varieties for Seattle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATGUoY2RrA

Hi Jack,

Ben has a greenhouse, and his top 10 lists often fail to mention which varieties got head starts in the greenhouse. I did look at some of his reviews where he said that VBT was a good tasting variety, so hopefully I won’t be too disappointed. Worst comes to worst I can always graft!

I'm in Olympia (just a little over an hour south of Seattle) and there is a big fig tree in someone's front yard in the neighborhood and last year I saw unbelievably huge figs on it, about as big as medium small mandarins. The flavor was as good as fresh supermarket figs too. The fig fruit were so big that there was a hollow space inside big enough to fit a lychee (if you don't know what that is, it's between the size of an acorn and a walnut).

socalnolympia-

Time to ask the owner if you can take a few cuttings... ;-)

You seem to know a lots that you should be fine.

My VBT is much bigger tree than Ben's small in ground tree, My feedback is that It has small crop of breba (10% Vs DK)and its didn't taste as good as same age tree of DK. My tree has a large main crop big size figs with hole for bugs, Not really sure that its taste get better with age.

Hi socalnolympia:

I heard that Olympia is famous for Olympian fig trees, Do you think that it is Olympian fig tree?

It could be, but I don't know.

Most ordinary people with fig trees in their yard don't bother keeping track of what variety it was.

Although the fig trees do not really begin putting out leaves until very late May, fig trees do grow fast here over the Summer and early Fall, and they typically do not suffer any branch die-back over the Winter here. The fig trees can grow to be 8 feet high.

Olympian isn't considered as sweet and tasty as Desert King but mature old trees are known to often be able to give two crops per year. (At least that's what I was told from fig experts in another forum)

But Olympian is still a good tasting fig, different type of fig flavor from Desert King, so it's not so simple to say one is clearly better than another. I'm told Olympian is a type of "Brown Turkey" fig but with better flavor.

" Time to ask the owner if you can take a few cuttings... ;-) "

His tree is so huge I could probably take cuttings for everyone and he wouldn't notice.

If you do actually decide to take some cuttings, I'd be happy to trade you for cuttings from some of my trees. Just go to my page here and message me so we can discuss first. :-)