2018 Fig Scores

2018 Fig Taste Scores
Four Categories to judge for: Taste/Flavor, Sweetness, Size, Productivity
10 is Highest and 1 is the lowest.

Size Chart in grams:
1 = 1-10
2 =11-20
3 =21-30
4 =31-40
5 = 41-50
6 = 51-60
7 = 61-70
8 = 71-80
9 = 81-90
10 =91-100+

Productivity:
Productivity will be calculated by how many figs divided by how many branches. So the result will be a number that shows the average amount of figs per branch.

Example:

.5 = 1 fig for ever 2 branches
1 = 1 fig per branch
2 = 2 figs per branch

Taste/Flavor:
10 is Highest and 1 is the lowest. (An average fig for me would be a 6.5)

Example:
10 = Black Madeira
1 = Wuhan

Sweetness Level:
10 is Highest and 1 is the lowest.

Example:
Peter's Honey would be a 9
White Kadota I had from 2 years ago would be a 2 - it was bland as water

This list will change as the year goes by. I will score brebas as well as main crop. This is very subjective to Seattle's zone 8B and my personal preference. However I would love to hear about your top tasting fig in the comments below in your area.

Keep in mind a high total score doesn't indicate a great tasting fig. Depends on what you value out of a fig. Taste, sweetness, size, or productivity? Or maybe a well rounded fig.

**The date is when I picked the fruit.

Tauro: Breba (7/1/18) - 1.5yr old plant
Breba Only
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 6
Size: 4 (35 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total = 17

Green Goliath (Zold Orias): Breba (7/5/18) - 2yr old plant
Breba Only
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 6.5
Size:  6(56 grams)
Productivity: 1.3
Total = 20.3

Natalina: Breba (7/7/18) - 2yr old plant
Breba Only
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7
Size: 2 (12 grams)
Productivity: 2
Total = 19.5 

Desert King: Breba (7/10/18) 3yr old plant (Greenhorn ripened)
Breba
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 7 (61 grams)
Productivity: 6
Total =  26.5

Palermo Sicily Fig (7/6/18) 3yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 2 (19 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total =  19.5

Black Zadar Fig (7/18/18) 2yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7
Size: 6 (50 grams)
Productivity: 5
Total =  25.5

Vincenzo Fig (7/19/18) 2.5yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 6 (51 grams)
Productivity: 2.5
Total =  24 

Lampeira Preta Fig (7/19/18) 3yr old plant 
Breba
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 5 (48 grams)
Productivity: .3
Total =  21.3

Oxford Fig (7/19/18) 2yr old plant (Greenhouse ripened, aka Brunswick)
Breba
Taste: 5.5
Sweetness: 5
Size: 7 (67 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total =  21.5

Black Zadar Fig (7/22/18) 2yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7
Size: 11 (102 grams)
Productivity: 5
Total =  31.5

Blava Fig (7/20/18) 2yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 6
Size: 2 (10.7 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total =  16

Fiorone Di Ruvo Fig (7/20/18) 2.5yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 6
Sweetness: 4.5
Size: 16 (155 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total =  27.5

Ashland Unknown Fig (7/20/18) 2.5yr old plant
(Might be a Kadota)
Breba
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 8
Size: 4 (31 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total =  22

Lattarula (7/29/18) 3yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 5.5
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 7 (60 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total =  23

Bathenjani (8/05/18) 3yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 5.5
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 1 (7 grams)
Productivity: 2
Total = 15

Violet De Bordeaux: Breba (8/14/18) - 4yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7
Size: 5 (43 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 24

Marlow (Olympian) (8/19/18) - 3yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7
Size: 75.5 (8 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 26

Mary Lane (8/19/18) - 3yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 6
Size: 81.6 (9 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total = 22.5

Granthams Royal: Breba (8/22/18) 3yr old plant
Breba only
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 5  (42.2 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 21.5

Jack Lily (8/22/18) 3yr old plant
1 Crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 4  (39 grams)
Productivity: 4.5
Total = 22

Olympian: Breba (8/22/18) - 4yr old plant
Breba
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7
Size: 6 (55 grams)
Productivity: .25
Total = 20.75

3 Lobe Unk (Verte?) Breba (8/23/18) - 2yr old plant
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 8
Size: 3 (22 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 19.5

Zingarella (9/03/18) - 3yr old plant
1 crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 3 (26 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 20.5

Florea (9/5/18)
1  Crop
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 6
Size: 3 (23.6grams)
Productivity: 5
Total =  20.5

Kathleen's Black (9/5/18) - Not the best one off of this tree
1 crop
Taste: 5
Sweetness: 5
Size: 2 (11.9 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 15

Palermo Sicily (9/5/18) * may have picked a fig that was aborting
Main 
Taste: 2
Sweetness: 3
Size: 2 (13.9 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 8

Wills Unk Yellow Black Ischia (9/1/18)
1 crop
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 8 
Size: 3 (22 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total = 19

Dr Gowaty (9/08/18) 
Main
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7 
Size: 6 (56.5 grams)
Productivity: 6
Total = 26.5

Takoma Violet (9/13/18)
1 crop
Taste: 9
Sweetness: 8.5
Size: 4 (36 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total  25.5

Brandon (9/13/18
Main
Taste: 6
Sweetness: 5
Size: 2 (19.5 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total 14

Black Zadar Fig (9/15/18) 2yr old plant
Main
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 10 (94.5 grams)
Productivity: 5
Total =  31

Sicily Fig (9/16/18) 3yr old plant
1 crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 7
Size: 7 (62.3 grams)
Productivity: 2
Total = 23

Ronde De Bordeaux (9/16/18) 4yr old In ground plant
1 crop
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 3 (22.3 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 21.5

Kathleen's Black (9/19/18)
1 crop
Taste: 9
Sweetness: 8
Size: 8 (71.4 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 29

Ben's Golden Riverside (9/19/18)
1 crop
Taste: 10
Sweetness: 8.5
Size: 16 (151 grams)
Productivity: 6
Total = 40.5

Natalina (9/19/18) 
Main Crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 2 (15.1  grams)
Productivity: 2
Total = 18.5

Santa Fe Unknown  (9/19/18)
1 crop
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 2 (16 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total = 15.5

LSU Hollier (9/19/18)
1 crop
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 8
Size: 4 (31.7 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 24.5

Brunswick  aka Oxford Fig (9/19/18)
Main Crop
Taste: 5.5
Sweetness: 5.5
Size: 6 (50 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 21

Socorro Black (9/19/18)
1 crop
Taste: 9
Sweetness: 8
Size: 5 (44 grams)
Productivity: 10
Total = 33

Mis labeled Black Madeira (9/19/18)
Main
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 8.5
Size: 4 (37.9 grams)
Productivity: 5
Total = 26

Vincenzo (9/19/18) - This one was not ripe
Main crop
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 6
Size: 2 (16.3 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 16

LSU ORourke (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 7
Size: 2 (13.1 Grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 13

Improved Celeste (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 5
Sweetness: 5
Size: 2 (13.1 Grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 13

Longue Daout  (9/23/18)
Main Crop
Taste: 5.5
Sweetness: 6
Size: 5 (46 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 19.5

Nordland  (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 7
Size: NA
Productivity: NA
Total 

Dauphine Raintree (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: NA
Productivity: NA
Total 

Negronne (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: NA
Productivity: NA
Total 

Kadota (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 5
Sweetness: 5
Size: NA
Productivity: NA
Total 

Chicago Hardy (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 7
Size: NA
Productivity: 4
Total 

Qalaat Al Madiq (9/23/18)
Main
Taste: 9
Sweetness: 9
Size: NA
Productivity: NA
Total

Bourjasotte Grise (9/23/18)
1 crop
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 4 (30 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 22.5

Little Ruby (9/23/18)
1
Taste: 4.5
Sweetness: 5.5
Size: NA
Productivity: NA
Total 

Chicago Hardy (9/26/18) Much better than the last one
1
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 7
Size: 5 (41 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 23

Salem Dark (9/29/18)
1crop
Taste: 6.75
Sweetness: 7
Size: 3 (21.6 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 16.75

Vern's Brown Turkey (9/29/18)
Main crop
Taste: 4.5
Sweetness: 5
Size: 4 (35 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 17.5

Main crop
Taste: 9.75
Sweetness: 9
Size: 5 (40 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 24.75

1 crop
Taste: 6
Sweetness: 6
Size: 2 (14.3 grams)
Productivity: 2
Total = 16

Main crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 8.5
Size: 3 (34.4 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 19.5

1 crop
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 4 (35.8 grams)
Productivity: 2
Total = 21

1 crop
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 7 (67.6grams)
Productivity: 2
Total = 24

Main crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 7
Size: 4 (34.5 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 21

1 crop
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 8
Size: 6 (58.5 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 23.5

1 crop
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 8.5
Size: 4 (39.4 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total = 21.5

Main crop
Taste: 4.5
Sweetness: 5
Size: 3 (22.9 grams)
Productivity: .3
Total = 12.3

1 crop
Taste: 6.5
Sweetness: 5.5
Size: 4 (34.1 grams)
Productivity: .3
Total = 16.3

1 crop
Taste: 8.75
Sweetness: 8
Size: 4 (35 grams)
Productivity: .3
Total = 21.05

1 crop
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7
Size: 4 (35 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total = 20

1 crop
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 7
Size: 4 (37.1 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 23.5

1 crop
Taste: 9
Sweetness: 8
Size: 5 (51.1 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 26

1 crop
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 7
Size: 6 (54.9 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 25

1 crop
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 8.5
Size: 3 (23.9 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 24

1 crop
Taste: 7
Sweetness: 6.5
Size: 6 ( 55.8 grams)
Productivity: 3
Total = 22.5

1 crop
Taste: 9.5
Sweetness: 8.5
Size: 6 (52.5 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 27

aka bebera preta
1 crop
Taste: 4
Sweetness: 4
Size: 3 (25 grams)
Productivity: .5
Total = 11.5

1 crop
Taste: 9
Sweetness: 8
Size: 4 (35.7 grams)
Productivity: 5
Total = 26

Main crop
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 8
Size: 8 (75 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 25

Main crop
Taste: 6
Sweetness: 6
Size: 7 (66.5 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 23

Pellegrino (10/27/18) 
Main crop
Taste: 8
Sweetness: 8
Size: 12 (110 grams)
Productivity: 1
Total = 39

Main crop
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7
Size: 7 (66.5 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 25.5

1 Crop
Taste: 7.5
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 7 (61.9 grams)
Productivity: 5
Total = 28

1 Crop
Taste: 5
Sweetness: 5.5
Size: 4 (39 grams)
Productivity: 4
Total = 18.5

Cali Candy
Such a unique and complex flavor for a fig
Taste: 9.5
Sweetness: 9
Size: 2 (13 grams)
Productivity: ?
Total =

Grosse Monstrueuse di Lipari
1 Crop
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 8
Size: 3 (25 grams)
Productivity: ?
Total =

JFE Black Madeira
1 Crop
Taste: 9.5
Sweetness: 9
Size: 3 (27.1 grams)
Productivity: ?
Total =

Ponte Tresa
1 Crop
Taste: 8.5
Sweetness: 7.5
Size: 3 (27.1 grams)
Productivity: ?
Total = 

2 comments:

  1. grisel gallardoJuly 12, 2018 at 8:43 AM

    We are aware and following your 2018s experiences and picks! Thanks

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  2. Sheryl AllenOctober 18, 2018 at 12:45 PM

    fabulous post Ben - could I send you a wish list with fig trees/cuttings for the future? maybe in December? (along with probably 100 others?!) thanks, Sheryl

    ReplyDelete

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