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I'll vouch for Chicago Hardy.  It produces for my parents planted in the ground by a small

ornamental pond.  Most years, dies to the ground, but comes back and produces a crop of figs.

Some years the figs have not ripened, but now that we know about oiling, we're more likely to

get a crop.  I also have one in a pot, and though it does produce figs, the crop is much

smaller.

 

I also have what was purchased as Petite Negri (but is more likely Negronne).  I've had it in a pot

for years, but it never produces a fig.  This Spring I'm planting it out along with the Chicago Hardy.

 

Though Chicago Hardy is good, I'd like a larger fig that produced on new wood (for those years

when it gets killed back to the roots).

 

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
40° 5' N 75° 51'W
~650 ft elevation