Sadly, our young potted Savanac Noire was killed by the 2022 Arctic Blast.
Fantastic butterscotch flavor!
We have not grown the Red Bluff Roundup fig variety, but The Fig Hunter was kind enough to send us a sample.
It was difficult to let go of an LSU variety, but in spite of its reliable production, Improved Celeste just doesn’t have a flavor that impresses and it doesn’t like the rain, so we culled it.
Yellow Long Neck is a very productive fig variety, and not bad for a honey fig. However, it doesn’t like the rain and I prefer more intense flavors, so we culled it.
Allix survived the 2025 winter well – loaded w/brebas in the spring, but they dropped. Then loaded w/mains, which also dropped. Is it even true to type? I just have WAY too many fig trees to deal with it right now, so it’s gone.
Though Albo is a very good honey fig from the Pomona fig collection, we are not big into honey figs and this one just didn’t have a good level of production. In spite of its flat bottom, it does seem to handle the rain well.
