you Hey everyone, so today I want to try brown turkey for you all and I want to compare brown turkey to some varieties that I really like and tell you just how bad brown turkey is of a fake. So this is my brown turkey tree that I don't have by choice. This was given, all right, I bought this as cuttings from Harvey at the Gahalix under the name Morocco Alter 23 but it's shaping up to be very much so brown turkey. And here's one that I could pick. I know the lighting isn't the greatest right now but they all look very very similar. The lead pattern matches brown turkey quite well. And I did pick one for you guys that I want to show you. Just got to take a little bit of a walk. Let's get through their side of the yard. You can see the rest of my fig trees here. We just picked about six varieties this morning and I'm in fig heaven. Except maybe for the notorious brown turkey that people love so much. We talked about in my livestream my 10,000 subscriber livestream about this fig and just how bad it is. But then again if you guys love brown turkey right you love black jack you love black Spanish you love what I mean there's so many names for brown turkey guys out there that if you like it you know I can't tell you otherwise right I can only tell you that there's better better figs out there. You can see here's the other half. Can joined makes a very large melon flavored fig that really doesn't have much flavor to it. Here we have the traces place and we have Ron de Bordeaux. These are two really highly sought after very early productive rain resistant varieties whereas brown turkey isn't that early. It also gets really hit hard by the rain it has an open eye it splits it has a huge cavity in the middle. These are all very undesirable characteristics of figs yet the large majority of the country and commercially they grow around turkey. So let's eat this brown turkey here and show you guys what it tastes like and then we can eat the the better ones. Not bad it's actually it's still fig right I love figs. It's not horrible it's certainly a little bit under right but I don't mind it. You know the problem with this this here though is that it's never really going to get to further past this point. It could taste quite good past this point but the problem is it's just too much rain here it doesn't held up to the rain very well it splits very easily you know it can spoil very easily because if the rain gets inside the fig with an open eye it's not good but otherwise I like it as it is it's just it tastes like a melon it's more bland right it's melon with some nice honey to it you know I don't know it's a fig it's nice here is the trace of space this one tastes a bit like wine this is like the comparison between you know a really old bottle of wine to a really young bottle of wine it really does have an interesting berry flavor which you can kind of tell has like a bit of a wine like resinous flavor to it it also has the honey that we were just talking about where the fig produces its own nectar that I like to call honey and a lot of times it's found throughout the fig sometimes it's found at the eye of the fig really good big still has the melon flavor to it because I picked it a bit under right but I like that fig a bit under right and then we have here Ron Deber Doe this one sweeter they different more they call this Ron Deber Doe because it was found in the Bordo area of France I believe and a lot of people actually compare this berry flavor that it has to wine I believe or not so I'm not just making this up you know this isn't just my opinion this is the opinion of many people it's an interesting berry flavor right so with these figs and especially with the brown turkey you know it's quite bland it just tastes like melon plus honey whereas the Ron Deber Doe and the Drases place they have berry flavors almost like strawberry raspberry blackberry some weird berry flavor that you've never eaten and you can only really experience that in a fig it's quite strange so that adds another level of complexity to it right plus they have the honey from the sweetness some varieties that I have are actually they range in really wide varieties of berries some of them are more strictly honey right they have a ton of honey kind of like my LSU champagne here puts out a fig that is very very filled with honey dripping from the eye it's very sweet same thing with my Mary Lane seedless which is right next to it and then you have figs you know going even further away from that we have figs that maybe be of a light berry taste we have things that taste like sugar like there's crystallized sugar in the fig so I have a number of those like my suati as an example has a very light berry flavor to it and actually has more of a crystallized sugar in the fig giving it sweetness especially when you let these things dry the fruit toasts in the in the fig actually crystallizes a bit here we have a variety called Hative De Argentille which is not ripe yet but the Hative De Argentille actually has more of a tropical berry flavor to it have other fig varieties that taste like peaches we have a variety here called the sunbird unknown and sun bird unknown and soda Sicilian they both taste tastes like peaches we also have varieties that taste like peaches as well like Fico Pesco de Oro as well as yellow niches which I should have in a couple days ripe so there's a really wide variety of flavors within the fig and because brown turkey to me is very bland there's just better things out there we can go even further guys and I can show you my later ripening varieties like a black Madira and maybe an Italian to fifty eight or my Smith or my Azores dark those are really really interesting tasty figs and if I were to eat one of these guys this black Madira here side by side to a brown turkey there would be no comparison it really would be like a hundred dog a hundred-year-old bottle of wine compared to a five-year-old bottle of wine you know it would just be a huge difference in flavor anyway everyone I know I don't want to harp on this too much but that's just a a taste into my world so when you are seeing me review these varieties of figs guys you need to take that into consideration that you know just because you've only had brown turkey doesn't mean that there is other varieties out there that are quite interesting so I advise you to go out there and get a different variety of fig preferably one in a different flavor group you know either it's honey or berry or sugar fig that's what I would recommend anyway guys thank you so much for watching if you like brown turkey like I said that's your your prerogative and I can't change your mind so all I can say is keep growing figs and I'll see you off in the next one all right take care