Dominick

Figless said:
LOL you saved yourself a call from me. I wanted to write up the visit, but I was pretty trashed yesterday by the time I drove to Los Angeles. I think the best part of the day was having lunch with you, and hearing how you got into figs, and your first meeting with ☆((Eric The Figtator))☆

The Figs I could remember tasting...
Besides Dominick have all been redacted. I'll start a new thread with fig gazers accurate list, or better yet maybe FG will post it himself.

LOL like I said driving too long, and too many varieties, and flavors. All at once. Next time I'm filming (with permission of course).
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That’s me
 
Always love to hear some back story.
That's really cool and I commend the passing it around so freely.
Very awesome coop.
 
coop said:
Holy cow. I am so deeply touched by this post. I haven’t been on the site this week so I apologize for being late to the party
Seeing others talking about Dominick means the world to me.
Dominick is gone now, but his tree lives on. That was always my goal
In the early days of Figs 4 Fun I passed The Dominick around for the price of postage only. This was before PayPal and anyone who wanted some cuttings wrote to me, and I’d send them out and told people just to send me a check to my post office box whenever they had a chance. Most people paid, some didn’t but I didn’t care. My goal was to get Dominick’s tree out to as many people as I could, and I think my goal has been accomplished.
This was truly a labor of love. Dominick’s father took some cuttings with him when he came here to New Jersey from Italy. Dominick was growing the tree for 65 years hen I first met him. I helped him bury and cover that tree every winter for years. We stood it up in the spring and that tree never gave out. It’s an Mt Etna type. Medium size and absolutely delicious.
I stopped selling plants and cuttings many years ago, I just didn’t want to make money off of it
I still pass it around to whoever shows interest in growing him
This was my first discovery, and passing it around to the fig community gave me great joy
I never thought I could do that again…….
Until I found The Godfather…..
That’s another story
So happy to be here after spending the day at the Staten Island Fig Festival
I hung in the fig fanatic booth with Peter.
Glad I found you all
To be continued
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I'm so glad to be discussing Dominick again. It's been out there for a very long time, producing loads of tasty figs for people. It deserves some attention.

@coop , I look forward to the continuation on the Godfather. :)
 
coop said:
Holy cow. I am so deeply touched by this post. I haven’t been on the site this week so I apologize for being late to the party
Seeing others talking about Dominick means the world to me.
Dominick is gone now, but his tree lives on. That was always my goal
In the early days of Figs 4 Fun I passed The Dominick around for the price of postage only. This was before PayPal and anyone who wanted some cuttings wrote to me, and I’d send them out and told people just to send me a check to my post office box whenever they had a chance. Most people paid, some didn’t but I didn’t care. My goal was to get Dominick’s tree out to as many people as I could, and I think my goal has been accomplished.
This was truly a labor of love. Dominick’s father took some cuttings with him when he came here to New Jersey from Italy. Dominick was growing the tree for 65 years hen I first met him. I helped him bury and cover that tree every winter for years. We stood it up in the spring and that tree never gave out. It’s an Mt Etna type. Medium size and absolutely delicious.
I stopped selling plants and cuttings many years ago, I just didn’t want to make money off of it
I still pass it around to whoever shows interest in growing him
This was my first discovery, and passing it around to the fig community gave me great joy
I never thought I could do that again…….
Until I found The Godfather…..
That’s another story
So happy to be here after spending the day at the Staten Island Fig Festival
I hung in the fig fanatic booth with Peter.
Glad I found you all
To be continued
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That is so awesome. I love hearing stories and history about the figs. Makes them so much more personal and interesting. Thank you for sharing this with us and glad Dominick lives on. Guess I need to try acquiring this and The Godfather now. And please feel free to share that story as well.
 
@coop

Not to get off subject from figs but have you ever met Thelma Schoonmaker? My grandparents were friends with her parents in Aruba and obviously knew Thelma as a kid. I remember my grandmother talking to her parents on the phone, and they'd talk how Thelma was working in the film industry and how she hooked up with this new and upcoming director named Martin Scorsese.
 
Hard to tell both spellings sound the same to me ,the one with the k is a dark fig with a one man story .
 
I just looked up and read the stories for Dominick and The Godfather, really cool. Makes me want to to stop at all these houses around my area where I see giant fig trees and talk to people. But this is my first year growing them so I need to learn a few things.
 
ElSquatcho said:
I just looked up and read the stories for Dominick and The Godfather, really cool. Makes me want to to stop at all these houses around my area where I see giant fig trees and talk to people. But this is my first year growing them so I need to learn a few things.
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It’s my first year, too, and I want to run around and learn EVERYTHING! I fig popped some Capri figs so I can hand pollinate + I want to learn how to graft…

Blah, it’s like I have fig ADHD!!

If I win the lottery and get a high tunnel, I’ll be unstoppable!!



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More info on my "Dominic" tree: I heard back from the seller, and they said it’s just a different spelling of the same variety. However, there are a couple of different tasting strains, one is more "blueberry" and the other is more "plum." This is the plum one. Looking back through forum posts, it seems like people get various tasting notes depending on their location, including peach. Either way, I'm excited to get some figs off this tree later this year!
 
EtchedFicus said:
More info on my "Dominic" tree: I heard back from the seller, and they said it’s just a different spelling of the same variety. However, there are a couple of different tasting strains, one is more "blueberry" and the other is more "plum." This is the plum one. Looking back through forum posts, it seems like people get various tasting notes depending on their location, including peach. Either way, I'm excited to get some figs off this tree later this year!
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
 
I got the Dominick fig as a cutting from the December DMV fig swap of 2025. I was not going to grow it because I thought it was a mislabeled fig 😅 or something I already had . Lucky for me the story you shared in this thread changed my mind and made me realize it was not mislabeled.

The timing of this thread was perfect. Thanks!
 
Tiger garden said:
I got the Dominick fig as a cutting from the December DMV fig swap of 2025. I was not going to grow it because I thought it was a mislabeled fig 😅 or something I already had . Lucky for me the story you shared in this thread changed my mind and made me realize it was not mislabeled.

The timing of this thread was perfect. Thanks!
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You may have gotten it from me. I spread that baby around, and I had a garbage bag full its cuttings at the DMV fig swap.
 
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