Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

Looks very reddish, I wouldn't have guessed Celeste. They look good. Hate the water got those trees.

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Looks very reddish, I wouldn't have guessed Celeste. They look good. Hate the water got those trees.

Looking up a few links.......the first may help us both. It is MS State Extension and they are calling it Southern Brown Turkey. Personally I have never heard of a "Southern" Brown Turkey. Even the Magnolia fig is a Turkey fig. Miss Hall is a Turkey fig. My memory is not the best, your tree may be the first fig in the listing. When you get it to fruit please take a picture.

Celeste vs. Southern Brown Turkey Figs | Mississippi State University Extension Service

This link is to the type of fig I have growing. Same flesh color too.

Celeste Fig - Womack Nursery

The Southern brown turkey is what we both probably have in our areas. The others to my knowledge are the English brown turkey and the California brown turkey. Like you mentioned others fall into the turkey fig class too. The pic on that link you sent looks like your pic. Just more reddish than I was thinking and had seen. It sorta gets confusing with all the types. Thanks

The California & Magnolia are the same fig. I "fig"ured haha, that out a while back. Interesting thing, it and the Black Mission is slow growing here. I'm not sure if my Black Mission's will even fruit here.

I just found this thread and as I read through the posts it reminds me of when I was a kid and my dad attempting to explain to me the art of grafting. I watched him do it lots of times but didn't really appreciate what he was doing. I do remember him saying that not a lot of people knew how to do it. I also remember a certain apple tree in our orchard which contained 10 different varieties of apples. Now....I wish I had paid closer attention to what he was doing. (not just tree grafting, either).

I wish I had paid more attention to things my father did as well. I'd be much better off today.

I was watching the color change on this Smith Fig without paying attention to how fast it was ripening. Well I let it go a bit to long.



After cutting I took a bite out of one slice to find it very mushy, too mushy for a fig. The taste was off too, more are ripening I hope to get a better example to post.

I have some that I waiting on to ripen. Lots that I don’t think have enough time to ripen this year. Fig rust has been rough so far this year.