Does anyone know of a nursery that sells a some of the figs from the LSU breeding program?

All I ever see is Celeste and Brown Turkey at the nurseries I frequent. You would swear Louisiana wasn't home to a world famous fig breeding program. Anyway, since I have found out about this program I have been looking and can't find any other than online.

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Posted by Brummy

Central, LA

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Posted on 3/6/23 at 3:11 pm to mrcoon

I bought an O'Rourke from Clegg's in the fall. They had others there too at the time.

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Posted by poochie

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Posted on 3/6/23 at 4:23 pm to mrcoon

where are you located? southern roots just south of thibodaux has lsu varities.

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Posted by CrawDude

Baton Rouge

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Posted on 3/6/23 at 4:29 pm to mrcoon

You can usually find LSU Purple and LSU Gold at Cleggs on Seigen. As stated sometimes the O’Rourke cultivar. You might have to mail order some other varieties developed by Dr. O’Rourke like Champagne, LSU Scott’s Black, etc.

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Posted by I B Freeman

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Posted on 3/6/23 at 9:04 pm to mrcoon

I bought a LSU purple from Isons online

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Posted by mrcoon

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Posted on 3/7/23 at 6:30 am to poochie

I am in Evangeline parish. Thanks for the advise.

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Posted by mrcoon

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Posted on 3/7/23 at 3:07 pm to mrcoon

Just ran across this online nursery. They have a few: Peaceful Heritage Nursery, LLC

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Posted by The Nino

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Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:16 pm to mrcoon

Which is considered the best variety?

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Posted by windriverwonders

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Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:18 am to The Nino

IMO the LSU purple are inferior in the flavor category.

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Posted by mrcoon

Louisiana

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Posted on 3/8/23 at 8:10 am to The Nino

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Which is considered the best variety?

I know the trees you see the most for sale online are LSU Purple and LSU Gold. Seems like that would mean most people really like them. I have eaten LSU Purple and it was really good. LSU Scott's black seems to be held in high regard in the videos I have seen.

The trees I have in my yard now are from the previous owner who got them from LSU in the early 90's. That is the only reason I knew LSU had a fig program. They didn't remember the variety, but they are small and extremely good, very similar to Celeste, but fruiter and ripen earlier. One of the trees I cut down to make room like an idiot, the other is about dead, and the third is struggling. I am looking for replacements.

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The current list of LSU’s official fig variety releases are:

Purple
Gold
Champagne
Tiger
O’Rourke
Scott’s Blac

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In addition to the official LSU fig releases, there are 17 additional unofficial varieties that have made their way out of the LSU ag program.

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Brown
Buddy Lee Unk
Candy
DC1
DC2
DC6
DC7
Early Improved Celeste
Everbearing
Golden Celeste
Hollier
Jack Lily
Strawberry
Thibodeaux
White Honey
The Unofficial LSU varieties can also be divided into to sub-groups:

Unique: Those that have a provenance which goes back to new varieties actually bred by the LSU program. For example, the “Dead Cat” varieties were clearly of this category.
Undetermined: Varieties which are known or thought to be from LSU, but have no clear connection to unique varieties created by the LSU program.
Unknowns: Varieties which have come from LSU, are known to NOT be bred by LSU, but are merely unknown varieties (e.g. Buddy Lee).