LSU Champagne Fig is a hybrid releases from the Louisiana State University (LSU) agricultural program. It is a cross between 'Celeste' (female) and C1 (male) which is a Capri fig from California.
LSU Champagne produces small fruit with yellow to green skin and golden flesh. It's a green fig, just like Ischia, Kadota, etc.
Champagne has a slightly rounded end that tapers towards the stem and a short neck. The eye is partially closed on mature fruit.
Where to buy: https://www.gurneys.com/product/fig-champagne-fig
LSU fig breeding program has been very productive over the years, since 1950's. “Figs are fun to grow and collect. You can grow them in 5-gallon or 10-gallon pots and put many different varieties in a backyard.” The LSU AgCenter revived O’Rourke’s research in 1990 and began releasing new varieties. “Since then, we’ve released LSU Purple, LSU Gold, Tiger, Champagne and O’Rourke, which we named after Ed,” Johnson said. Read more here: https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/news/news_archive/2015/june/headline_news/figs-remain-popular-louisiana-fruit
References:
https://www.figdatabase.com/variety-details/660/lsu-champagne
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Kadota (Florentine) Fig
This is a very old variety, described in later 1880's, how about that?
It's a green fig, just like Ischia, LSU Champagne, etc.
Kadota (Florentine) cultivar produces a medium-large, yellow fruit with an open ostiole that is partially sealed with a honey-like substance.
Fruit quality declines with extremely wet weather.
Although Kadota figs can be eaten fresh, they are better suited for canning and preserves. Fruit ripen in July, same as Celeste fig.
Where to buy:
https://wellspringgardens.com/collections/figs/products/kadota-fig
References:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg214
https://www.tytyga.com/Kadota-Fig-p/frufig-kadota.htm
https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=25443
https://www.figdatabase.com/variety-details/212/kadota
It's a green fig, just like Ischia, LSU Champagne, etc.
Kadota (Florentine) cultivar produces a medium-large, yellow fruit with an open ostiole that is partially sealed with a honey-like substance.
Fruit quality declines with extremely wet weather.
Although Kadota figs can be eaten fresh, they are better suited for canning and preserves. Fruit ripen in July, same as Celeste fig.
Where to buy:
https://wellspringgardens.com/collections/figs/products/kadota-fig
References:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg214
https://www.tytyga.com/Kadota-Fig-p/frufig-kadota.htm
https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=25443
https://www.figdatabase.com/variety-details/212/kadota
Celeste Fig, also called Blue Celeste, Celestial, and Little Brown Sugar
Celeste (Blue Celeste, Celestial, and Little Brown Sugar) cultivar is probably the second most common fig in the southeastern United States, after Brown Turkey (Brunswick, Eastern Brown Turkey, Harrison, Lees Perpetual, Ramsey, Texas Everbearing).
It's a small fig.
Celeste is almost as widely grown as Brown Turkey. Of the old standards, it is considered to be the best tasting and very good to excellent. Celeste has a tightly closed "eye," making it resistant to dried fruit beetle and rain entry, which can cause fruit to sour. Will drop unripe fruit in hot weather, but it is so outstanding in overall quality that it is worth some loss. Fortunately, Celeste ripens well before most other figs, allowing harvest before the worst heat.
This is the most popular cultivar in southern Louisiana and grows well in Florida. It is a very dependable producer of high quality, small to medium sized figs even in unfavorable/wet weather due to its small, tightly closed eye. The very sweet flesh has a rich, honey like flavor and is reddish amber in color. The eye remains green until the fig is almost ripe (unlike Brown Turkey)
The fruit is small to medium in size and purplish bronze to light brown in color. The flesh is bright pink, very sweet. Celeste is referred to as “sugar fig” on account of its sweetness. The outside skin is purplish-bronze to light brown and the flesh is rose-colored.
Celeste is known in the South as the "Sugar Fig". A Southern tradition, long-lived and hardy, Celeste's reputation comes from many generations of people that have grown this fig. The "eye" at the bottom of the fruit is small, keeping insects out.
Celeste figs have a compact growth pattern, usually reaching a mature height and spread of 7 to 10 feet (2-3 m). Excellent for container growing. They should not be pruned heavily, as this can reduce fruit production. They produce their main crop of fruit earlier than most other fig varieties, usually in early summer.
Scott Head grows more than 20 fig varieties, here is his video about Celeste:
Where to buy:
https://wellspringgardens.com/collections/figs/products/celeste-fig
References:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg214
https://www.pepesplants.com/fig-trees.html
What Is A Celeste Fig: Learn About Celeste Fig Tree Care https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/figs/celeste-fig-tree-care.htm
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/ficus-carica-celeste/
https://www.gurneys.com/product/fig-celeste
https://ediblelandscaping.com/products/shrubs/Figs/CelesteFig.php
https://www.figdatabase.com/variety-details/89/celeste
It's a small fig.
Celeste is almost as widely grown as Brown Turkey. Of the old standards, it is considered to be the best tasting and very good to excellent. Celeste has a tightly closed "eye," making it resistant to dried fruit beetle and rain entry, which can cause fruit to sour. Will drop unripe fruit in hot weather, but it is so outstanding in overall quality that it is worth some loss. Fortunately, Celeste ripens well before most other figs, allowing harvest before the worst heat.
This is the most popular cultivar in southern Louisiana and grows well in Florida. It is a very dependable producer of high quality, small to medium sized figs even in unfavorable/wet weather due to its small, tightly closed eye. The very sweet flesh has a rich, honey like flavor and is reddish amber in color. The eye remains green until the fig is almost ripe (unlike Brown Turkey)
The fruit is small to medium in size and purplish bronze to light brown in color. The flesh is bright pink, very sweet. Celeste is referred to as “sugar fig” on account of its sweetness. The outside skin is purplish-bronze to light brown and the flesh is rose-colored.
Celeste is known in the South as the "Sugar Fig". A Southern tradition, long-lived and hardy, Celeste's reputation comes from many generations of people that have grown this fig. The "eye" at the bottom of the fruit is small, keeping insects out.
Celeste figs have a compact growth pattern, usually reaching a mature height and spread of 7 to 10 feet (2-3 m). Excellent for container growing. They should not be pruned heavily, as this can reduce fruit production. They produce their main crop of fruit earlier than most other fig varieties, usually in early summer.
Scott Head grows more than 20 fig varieties, here is his video about Celeste:
Where to buy:
https://wellspringgardens.com/collections/figs/products/celeste-fig
References:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg214
https://www.pepesplants.com/fig-trees.html
What Is A Celeste Fig: Learn About Celeste Fig Tree Care https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/figs/celeste-fig-tree-care.htm
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/ficus-carica-celeste/
https://www.gurneys.com/product/fig-celeste
https://ediblelandscaping.com/products/shrubs/Figs/CelesteFig.php
https://www.figdatabase.com/variety-details/89/celeste
How to Grow Fig Trees
From HortTube with Jim Putnam: "This video contains details on how to plant and grow fig trees. These large growing fruiting plants can reach as high as 25 feet in height. There are many varieties of fig trees, but maintenance is similar on most. These low maintenance trees are drought tolerant and deer resistant."
Related:
How to Grow Figs - Complete Growing Guide http://buff.ly/2rns3iF
Growing Fig Trees in Australia - Planting & Pest Guide https://buff.ly/2pfGXV2
Related:
How to Grow Figs - Complete Growing Guide http://buff.ly/2rns3iF
Growing Fig Trees in Australia - Planting & Pest Guide https://buff.ly/2pfGXV2
Is fig tree the easiest fruit tree to grow in the South?
From Jeff Bernhard:
From the comments:
"A fig tree is the EASIEST fruit tree to grow. Once established, you don't even need to water them. And they don't need fertilizers either."
How to propagate fig trees from cuttings - from Peppe's fruit tree nursery in Davie, Florida:
From Amazon:
From the comments:
"A fig tree is the EASIEST fruit tree to grow. Once established, you don't even need to water them. And they don't need fertilizers either."
How to propagate fig trees from cuttings - from Peppe's fruit tree nursery in Davie, Florida:
From Amazon:
How to Grow Figs
Growing Your Own Figs - Richters Herbs lecture:
As Steven Biggs puts it, "Growing figs shouldn't seem exotic; it should be straight forward stuff!" Indeed, a growing coterie of gardeners across Canada and the United States are mastering the art of growing figs in our temperate climate. Yes, figs suffer from the cold but there are ways to counter the cold as Steven will show. The Toronto-based journalist can fairly be called Ontario's chief advocate for growing figs, as he has written and spoken extensively on the joys of fig culture. He even learned some Portuguese so a Portuguese-Canadian friend would share his secrets on growing figs. Steven is an award winning journalist and garden writer specializing in gardening, farming, and food production. He is co-author of "No Guff Vegetable Gardening", and is a contributing editor for "Country Guide". His latest book is "Grow Figs Where You Think You Can't". Steven has a Bachelor of Science in agriculture with a major in horticultural science. This is a recording of a presentation given at Richters Herbs on April 21, 2013.
How to prune figs in South Florida:
How to propagate fig trees from cuttings - from Peppe's fruit tree nursery in Davie, Florida:
Videos:
How to Grow Fig Trees - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoEA6
HOW TO GROW FIGS IN A CONTAINER OR POT - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoJUd
Growing the Brown Turkey Fig Tree - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoN6F
Rooting Figs Pepe Video 2013 - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWpjRY
Related reading:
http://www.pepesplants.com/fig-trees.html
http://www.raysfigs.com/faq.html
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/fig.html
How to grow figs, with lee reich - A Way To Garden http://buff.ly/1JoUON9
As Steven Biggs puts it, "Growing figs shouldn't seem exotic; it should be straight forward stuff!" Indeed, a growing coterie of gardeners across Canada and the United States are mastering the art of growing figs in our temperate climate. Yes, figs suffer from the cold but there are ways to counter the cold as Steven will show. The Toronto-based journalist can fairly be called Ontario's chief advocate for growing figs, as he has written and spoken extensively on the joys of fig culture. He even learned some Portuguese so a Portuguese-Canadian friend would share his secrets on growing figs. Steven is an award winning journalist and garden writer specializing in gardening, farming, and food production. He is co-author of "No Guff Vegetable Gardening", and is a contributing editor for "Country Guide". His latest book is "Grow Figs Where You Think You Can't". Steven has a Bachelor of Science in agriculture with a major in horticultural science. This is a recording of a presentation given at Richters Herbs on April 21, 2013.
How to prune figs in South Florida:
How to propagate fig trees from cuttings - from Peppe's fruit tree nursery in Davie, Florida:
Videos:
How to Grow Fig Trees - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoEA6
HOW TO GROW FIGS IN A CONTAINER OR POT - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoJUd
Growing the Brown Turkey Fig Tree - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoN6F
Rooting Figs Pepe Video 2013 - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWpjRY
Related reading:
http://www.pepesplants.com/fig-trees.html
http://www.raysfigs.com/faq.html
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/fig.html
How to grow figs, with lee reich - A Way To Garden http://buff.ly/1JoUON9
PhD biochemist from Bulgaria taught himself how to grow figs in Missouri, sells at farmers market $1 per fig
Ivan Stoilov started growing figs when his wife gave him a potted fig as a reminiscence of their homeland. He now has more than 500 "trees" (more like bushes) growing in the greenhouses. More fig trees are outside.
He ended up in St. Louis as a researcher for Sigma Chemical and bought a house near Creve Coeur Park. "But my wife was looking for a nicer house, I was looking for a bigger property," Stoilov says. The couple found their perfect spot in Dittmer, off Highway 30 in Jefferson County.
The Dittmer, Missouri, farmer wanted to grow the fruits and vegetables his Bulgarian family missed, without having to move back to Bulgaria.
Stoilov's grandparents had been farmers in Bulgaria, and he immediately planted Bulgarian peppers and other vegetables. When his wife gave him the first fig, he planted it outdoors and began experimenting with ways to help it survive the winters.
At 75 cents for smaller figs and $1.50 for large ones, the figs are his most profitable crop.
"He's definitely opened up his own market opportunity," says Marilyn Odneal, a horticulture outreach adviser at Missouri State University. "He's taking advantage of all the new interest in producing food locally."
Ivans Fig Farm
Ivan Stoilov
8517 Catawissa Road
Dittmer, MO 63023
County: Jefferson
Business: 636-285-0420
Email: istoilov@msn.com
References:
Ivan Stoilov, PhD, is a biochemist from Bulgaria who taught himself how to grow figs in Missouri http://bit.ly/1xWjbJF
Fig-get Me Not | Riverfront Times http://bit.ly/1xWkxUL
Photo of Ivan: September 3, 2008 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://bit.ly/1xWkF6w
Biochemist Grows Figs in a Greenhouse Heated with Old Cooking Oil | TheLedger.com http://bit.ly/1xWkOXx
Figs Fresh and Fabulous http://bit.ly/1xWkW9J
He ended up in St. Louis as a researcher for Sigma Chemical and bought a house near Creve Coeur Park. "But my wife was looking for a nicer house, I was looking for a bigger property," Stoilov says. The couple found their perfect spot in Dittmer, off Highway 30 in Jefferson County.
The Dittmer, Missouri, farmer wanted to grow the fruits and vegetables his Bulgarian family missed, without having to move back to Bulgaria.
Stoilov's grandparents had been farmers in Bulgaria, and he immediately planted Bulgarian peppers and other vegetables. When his wife gave him the first fig, he planted it outdoors and began experimenting with ways to help it survive the winters.
At 75 cents for smaller figs and $1.50 for large ones, the figs are his most profitable crop.
"He's definitely opened up his own market opportunity," says Marilyn Odneal, a horticulture outreach adviser at Missouri State University. "He's taking advantage of all the new interest in producing food locally."
Ivans Fig Farm
Ivan Stoilov
8517 Catawissa Road
Dittmer, MO 63023
County: Jefferson
Business: 636-285-0420
Email: istoilov@msn.com
References:
Ivan Stoilov, PhD, is a biochemist from Bulgaria who taught himself how to grow figs in Missouri http://bit.ly/1xWjbJF
Fig-get Me Not | Riverfront Times http://bit.ly/1xWkxUL
Photo of Ivan: September 3, 2008 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://bit.ly/1xWkF6w
Biochemist Grows Figs in a Greenhouse Heated with Old Cooking Oil | TheLedger.com http://bit.ly/1xWkOXx
Figs Fresh and Fabulous http://bit.ly/1xWkW9J
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