Finally got around to posting a few pics. The first is a main crop dk I just ate. Despite the cool rainy weather it was every bit as good as the brebas. Some hardened honey shots of fruit just before they started to mold(I wait until the last possible hour to pick) and the base of my 20' backyard tree with breba harvest...

Looks great, I wish I had a 20' DK!

Thanks for Sharing, I should get one of these soon.  

Hi 1king,
Congrats !
How old is your tree ?

Wait a second!

That nice King horizontal fig fruit seemingly squirting honey must have earlier been hanging with eye pointing down ...

I thought main crop desert king required wasp. Do all of them ripen for you in BC?

Hi fig friends,

this tree is about 18 years old -I planted it 14 years ago on the south side of our house. It gets a lot of shade in early spring/fall but has been faithfully producing breba the past 10+ years. There are about 8 other main crop ripening now and some dropping or getting knocked off by rodents. IF all the main were to ripen - big if, it would be about 1/5 the size of breba crop. George - I was too lazy to rotate the photo - sorry for the mis representation! Pino, I use binoculars to tell when they are ripe and a uav to pick - just kidding, I use a ladder - very slow and dangerous, but worth it. Calvin - be happy you don't have a tall tree, picking is very troublesome. I let the tree go tall for more light because of the marginal site it is in. I doubt we have THE WASP here - too cold for them probably?

Nice! I am envious! :-)

Can anyone share an opinion as to why this Desert King is producing a main crop without the fig wasp?

Can you please share a few pictures of the leaves of your tree. a few closeups of the most common leaf pattern on the tree will do. Thanks.

Looks great. Purchased a tiny plant from eBay a couple of months ago and can't wait for it to mature.