Hi everyone!  My tree is doing very well and is quite large!  I've started picking figs about 2 weeks ago but I am disappointed with the flavor.  It is an LSU Purple planted in Jan. 2012.  Every year they have been awesome - sweet and figgy.  This year they are a little sweet and a little figgy, just not the way they were in previous years.

I am happy with the amount of figs - seems like enough for the critters on four legs and with 2 wings and myself, just not happy with the flavor.  

I don't thing it is over watering since I haven't watered it much in the last 2-3 weeks.  We have had some rain and I have watered my garden next to it, but not a lot.

These pictures are from July 10th, the first fig on the season I was able to get:) 

If anyone has ideas about this please share!



 



   

I forgot to mention another issue, if left on the tree too long they sour :(

My lsu gold is not good at all this year. Taste is not there. Also having souring problem. Lsu purple is awesome as usual. Crazy. Richie
Louisiana

I'm not an expert by all means,so take this with a grain of salt. I feel not enough water or nitrogen in the beginning of the season and the nodes did not get enough space between them therefore all the figs are to close together at the end of the branch , they look very nice that way but they don't seem to develop correctly, sometime this seems to happen if they are root bound. Again I'm not an expert and I would like to here from someone that disagrees with this theory and why