A few are starting to ripen again this fig has not split or soured with all the rain & humidity. The mother tree is in Hawthorne N.Y. My uncle does protect it by covering. It did die back 4 yrs ago when he did not cover due to illness. It is very productive for him. Very sweet when ripe red pulp full bodied inside I will weigh an average fig when ripe and report back

Hi Sal,

To me that Fig looks like Martins unknown whatever that might be?

At any rate it is a beautiful Fig.

Dang,

Some people got it made, we have to go swimming it the stock pond!

Come on down Just bring some fig plants with you. I'll supply food and beverage of your choice.

I updated with pics and weight in first tread sorry.

Condgrads Sal,

Those are some beautiful figs and pictures, thanks for posting the pictures!

OK, all the pictures of these Delicious figs drove me to this. I put the shredder on my tractor, pulled it up to my fig tree, got off the tractor, shock the H_ll out of my fig tree and told it "if you don't make me some figs now I am going to drive this thing right over you"!!!

Hi J,
Hahaha, gonna teach that son of a gun huh!

Hang in there buddy!Better times are coming!

Looking back at older pic the figs were darker in color earlier in the season is this common or maybe because they were the breba or these had more leaves surrounding them at not direct sunlight or all of the above any input?

Sal
I can see air-layer of the palm tree shape fig plant in the top row. Good luck.
I did the same with two of my palm shape fig plants and one rooted with bundles of roots in 3 weeks and separated it from mother plant. They are good in rooting when air-layered but lazy in ripening fruits.

Ottawan this is my first air layer attempt started August 18. I checked it Sept 1 and noticed the soil in the bag was way to moist my fault I opened the bag and punched some holes in the bottom all leaves above air layer fell off but bark and tips are still green I think it might of rotted checked again yesterday and nothing. I will give it 3 more weeks.
    What I am happy with is the trunk below the air layer is leafing and branching out which was my goal anyway. The other long trunk has one fig left which I will pick soon, Then cut that down to 24-36 inches. This is probably a Brunswick  and with the rains the past month tends to split and some sour the eye is large so I have to pick sooner than I would like. Not full flavor. Before the rains the fruit was good and nice size figs.I Will give it 2 more seasons before I make a decision on keeping it.   

i think it's hard to air layer in florida's heat. i've had wonderful success this year with my muscadines (i have 52 muscadines)by taking a shoot still attached to the mother and burying it in a pot of soil. i think you're better off that way instead of trying to keep it in moist plastic. it does dry out and gets wet when it rains, etc. but in a month i had close to 100 percent success. on the other hand, the jury is still out on my blackberries (7 kinds). no roots at all yet, but no harm to the plants either. i'll check it again in a few weeks.

i'm putting in a misting bed and a hydro unit and a shade house in the spring, so i'll really be able to play around with propagation. my next obsession? why, what else but olives!

I don't think it's the weather as much as it was when I first added the soil the mix was to wet. I showed a friend of mine the plastic bottle method and his rooted beautifully. 

are you rooting green or year old wood? i'm trying to root succulent plant material.