I have noticed in the past week here in Toronto temps have been allot cooler in the night and morning anyone else notice this? Temps have been in the 60's.

Yes we had low of 59 earlier this week, then it hit 79 during day and broke the streak of consecutive days of hitting 80 plus.
The record was 42 consecutive days of 80 plus, we had 46 straight days this season.
Back in warmth again , mid week cooler air will arrive again and into 70s for daily highs them warmer air again later in week.
Im hoping September will be decent so i can taste some newer type figs that are waiting to ripen.

Ya same here during the day its warm but later in the night and early morning is a little fresco, Have allot of figs that still need a good 3-4 weeks to ripen hopefully they make it.

Nelson,

Just an uneducated guess but I think these cooler temps is what tells these figs is time to start ripening.

These cooler temps could be natures clock.

It's funny how they stay on the branch while the younger figlet play catch-up with them and all be the same size till they start ti ripen withen days apart. On most!

Rafed its true I noticed that on quite a few of my figs, Mother nature has a funny way of doing things.

Nelson
With all the talk about a better summer this year than the previous few, I am afraid that I may get fewer ripe figs than last year!
With night temperatures dipping low around 12C (52F), the fig sizes are not progressing visually noticed. I hope there is some latent progress otherwise the long wait for the next year. I will convince myself that the wait is fun too (ignoring the fungus gnats etc).

That's funny. Summer finally got here middle of last week (high 90s). Except for a couple days at beginning of July, hasn't been over 80F for months.

I think cooler temps later in season does not hasten figs to ripen but i could be wrong i just have not seen this with my trees.
Maybe the cooler weather slows them down and put the energy elsewhere into plant downwards . The leaves slowly turn yellow on mine perhaps that indication of energy being redistributed.
I had a plant for years that refused to ripen some of its crop each season it did this no matter what temps were that season during summer.
Here is tree in first week of October, notice hand truck as i was experimenting putting it in garage at night because of colder temps that first week of October, the ones that did ripen were not up to par and was a waste of time for me. Dang tree was heavy !
Too many years Ole man winter got its share of unripe figs in my garage so i no longer have. Notice the amount of unripe figs
Now watch Remis have luck with this tree !

Martin,
I am having good luck with this tree this year. So far I ate 2 figs from it and few more are dark and swelling but they wasn`t fully ripe I just had no patience to wait(wanted to taste it so badly), But now I will wait longer .
I already ate 2 of my Sal's figs ,that I started from cuttings this Spring they tastes very good ,but very small figs only 22g. ,is that's about right ? Compering to my brown turkey weighted 96g.

Thanks for the tree again Martin !

Yes 22g is about right,  mine were in that range up to 25-26 grams.
This season they come in together unlike last 2 much cooler seasons when tree was spent last of September few days in October .
This season cause of weather my sals tree will have no figs left by end of August - this never happened here before. Its the weather for sure.

Yes you have a few early ones on unknown and this is warmest season that tree has seen ever in illinois.
Remis let me know how much percentage of crop does not ripen at end of season it may be less cause of this weather but im curious.
Also let me know how they taste when fully ripe like this picture i show.
In its best years it had a melon type taste but most other years not so good to me.
So i stuck you with this tree !   ; )

I was getting discouraged by the recent cool weather but when the rain stopped I went to check on the figs. Fruits on Grimo's Bifara were getting fat but still green and hard but a swelling main crop fruit on Sal EL, with changing colour, caught my attention. Yes, it is the first main crop fig (Sal El) that will make it to the finish line, unless impatience make me intercept it before the finish line with cracks. Yes, then we always say that we should have left it a day or two more (i.e. show patience like Martin & some others).

After the next two rainy days, the current forecast after that is for at least 4 sunny days with Sunday and Monday with 31C (87F). This should make up for the past few cooler weeks and hopefully start the ripening process for some of my figs. We needed this hot spell (yes, 87F is a hot day here) and hope it last a bit longer.

Sunny days are here for a week at least. This should provide some help in ripening figs and it is very rare stretch of sunny days here (starting Aug 27). It may not be a news for many in the southwest of the continent but it is a real treat here this time of the year: