Here in Olympia, WA, I've seen a large tree with figs bigger than that. The figs were so large that they had a hollow space inside big enough to fit a lychee. (For anyone who doesn't know how big that is, it's between the size of a cherry and a walnut)

The figs were the size of medium-small mandarins.

Wow never heard about this variety. I have a violette de Bordeaux though. My greatest challenge here is to have enough time for them to ripe the fruit.

I usually put my trees in my basement at the beginninf of sept but this year but they always go out of dormancy sooner than what I want. Rhis year, I will wait for them to completely drop their leaves before bringing them in. I am still debating if it’s better to put them in my greenhouse or in my basement. any suggestion? I am thinking of bringing my belove saijo persimmon in my greenhouse once it will drops are its leaves too.

let your persimmon get its chill hours

Amy, put that fig in the greenhouse till somewhere in October/November than in the garage to go in dormancy for a few months.

Amy, I'm actually just a little bit further north than you in latitude, but the West Coast has milder winters, so people can grow some things here outside that they could never grow north on the East Coast.

Oh, by the way, I am growing mandarins outside. (Changsha mandarin, a type of cold hardy variety that doesn't taste as good and has lots of seeds, but it's still a mandarin)

I see a bloom on my gardenia bush too.

(Check out the Fragrant Plants section for the picture)

Wow Bob that is a huge fig!!

Smaller figs usually taste better however it is not always true. Violette de Soleis is a great french fig.

That is one huge fig!! Was it sweet Bob??????

What did it look like inside?

Amy, just like you, mine sstart loosing their leaves as soon as the nights start getting colder and I don't usually have a long enough season to ripen many. So discouraging and I wish I could fit them into my greenhouse, but I can't. So Once the leaves fall off, I stick them on my cold porch that never freezes until the spring again(

I got close to a quart of figs off 10 trees

Steve, what the heck? What is your secret? Your summers are no longer than mines, at least I don't think so right? Do you put yours to sleep too and when do you bring them out from dormancy? Are they huge trees? Squireels stole a few of mine until I used bird netting. Ugh

What is your most prized and favorite fig? Sweetest? Easy to grow? Ripens fast?

I grow hardy chicago only and I run 2 week sooner and later with warm weather. My first cool day was 10-11-19

Figs are like apples, citrus, pears and a lot of other fruits. Here is my breakdown. All fruits varieties are over 800, out of that, 600 taste almost the same, 150 are a little better, the rest 25 are very good and the remaining are excellent but still up for debate among folks..

For me, I just pick 3 or 4 max, be done. It’s hard to find truly experts in taste, I am not but what I grow is good enough for me.

During the years I am growing figs, listening to all those so-called experts I end up with a bunch varieties I don’t care for, so there is a lot of bull. We have one here on the fig forum, I know him well, an old timer, going way back. He steer you right.

Another comparison L.S.U. Gold.

Wow Bob! You really have huge figs! Makes my mouth watering!

Steve, I also have a hardy chicago. While all my other figs are now without any leaves my hardy chicago still has all of his. I wonder when he will decide to start losing his so I can put him in dormancy. I have him for two years and he has never produce for me!

Mike, you have a greenhouse and a cold porch? Oh you are so lucky!