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Brooklyn/Staten Island fig tree

Hello Figgy Friends!
This plant was brought back from Greece from our Brooklyn neighbors in the 70s and we've taken great care to keep their memory alive.
We cover it carefully in cloth and tarp each winter and at the end of each summer we have an abundance of lovely sweet figs.
As others have experienced, this summer has been so mild that our tree is behind schedule. I am not sure what kind of tree this is but can
someone let me know if they think there's a chance they will still grow and ripen? Thank you!

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Welcome to the forum
Beautiful tree!

A couple of those bigger ones will ripen. I would take off the smaller ones so the bigger ones ripen fast. If they don't ripen on time, then you can still make jam out of them.  Beautiful tree

Thank you so much! Do you know the name of this tree?

Welcome to the forum, it will be easier to see what variety it is close to when you can show a fig that is ripe, both whole and cut open. Nice tree!

That's a good looking tree.
Those leaves may tell some of the more Greek Fig savvy what variety it is.

welcome to the forum. can you tell us what color the figs are when ripe inside and out? it's a beautiful tree would you be interested in trading some cuttings later this fall?

Figgerydo,
Welcome to the forum community.

Figs usually ripen on their own schedule, the rule of thumb is 30 - 60 / 90- 120.
~30 days to grow from embryo to stagnant stage.
~60 days in stagnant stage.
~90 - 120 days total from embryo to ripe, for Early to Late cultivars.

BTW, if your fig ripens to a yellow exterior and red interior with strawberry like flavor it may be Dalmatie to get a better ID you would need to post pictures of exterior and interior of the ripe fig with a Quarter coin for scale. Brunswick figs have similar leaves but the figs are tan to brown exterior and amber to pink interior.
Good Luck.

Hi
You have received some great advise from many very knowledgeable people and as Pete has mentioned we need to see a ripe one to make a better educated guess
Whatever it is...it is gorgeous!!

Hi figgerydo,
It looks like a "Dalmatie".
When did the green figs appear on the wood ?
Here "Dalmatie" must not suffer frost damage or the tree will not ripen the fruit on time.
That happened to me in 2012 ... No fig for me that year !
Removing half of the figs may help as well as removing half of the stems ... Do you really need that many stems ?
In 2012, I did tare apart some stems, and I have a "Dalmatie tree 2 "  now. Believe me or not but the daughter tree started showing figs this September for the first time - nothing before.
So she will not ripen them this year . Hopefully she'll start producing next year ... But I worked on the shaping and the tree is fine right now - before eventual winter die-back ...

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