If so you are in Business because any main crop embryos visible on tree at this point will ripe on August 1st,no later than August 10.
All fig trees on the east coast Canada or Midatlantic that will have main crop visible on them starting June 1st,trough June 15,are early ripening cultivars and will be guaranteed to ripe all fruits appearing on branches till july 15.
Of course I am talking about adult fig plants 4 years or older.
Tomorrow.,I am going to check and post,If I have any cultivars that formed main crop,now,and will keep informed ,when they do.

Please do the same,if your tree got main crop on it now,let us know what cultivar it is.
Breba does not count as fruits because they are flower of the fig,only main crop are fruits.
Main crop appear on new growth,new wood that grew this year.
Thanks anticipated.

Edit Note:Here are The pixies,of cultivars that have incipient Embryos ,at this time June 1st.
My trees are planted in ground,Marseilles Black vs,was not protected from Winter cold,Improved Celeste,and Ronde de Bordeaux were protected with dry leaves.
Pixies:First Marseilles black vs,second Improved Celeste third Ronde de Bordeaux

Edit Note:June 4th: Match Head,or larger, size maincrop fruits can be seen now on:
Malta Black  ,(Not Winter protected)
Atreano (has a lot of large Breba too) ,(Not Winter protected)
Gino's ,(Not Winter protected)
Tacoma Violet(has a lot of large Breba too),(Not Winter protected)
Adriatic JH    (Winter Protected with dry leaves)
Southern Brown Turkey(James Robin)  (Winter Protected with dry leaves)

Edit note:June 10 2013:
Matchheads or larger on the Following:
Sal(Gene strain)
Afghanistan #2 (wide leaves)
Unknown White fig
Kathleen Black
Maltese Falcon
Stella
St.Anthony

Afghanistan #2 (wide leaves) is a mystery fig that I am not sure if ,it needs pollination to ripe fruits,but it has formed ,embryos,at this time,now about 6 years old ,in ground

Edit note:
June 15 2013:
New Embryos,on:
Noire de Barbentane
Preto
Nebo
Battaglia
Nero 600M
Saint Anthony
Violette de Bordeaux
Cleveland Hardy
Danny Delite
Sicilian White
Verdal Longue
Petite Negri
Unknown Black from Marcus(possible Ischia Black)
All cultivars are in ground.
This year,on June 15 fruits on my early ripening cultivars are a little smaller in size on this day,compared to last year,indicating a colder Spring season.

most of my trees i expected to see figs have fig embryo on them. and some i didn't expect have them on. only one that i expected and did see fig is Longue D'Aout. but it's a new plant given to me by very generous forum member, and with late spring, it put out growth little later. 

The farthest I am seeing is the tiny bud poking out so far, another 2 weeks there will be figlets and lots of them, are you talking about these buds or seeing the figlet, I want to make sure I report the proper thing, if you could post a picture of the stage you're talking about, it might be helpful for people when reporting for accuracy so we're all on the same page.

I got some brebas on 2 of my trees but haven't seen any beginnings of main crop yet.  Hopefully they come.  These trees are new and about 3ft tall.

Now..I'm very new at this. I just started September of last year. This will be my first crop of figs. Are these (see pics) main crops?

Celeste and Hardy Chicago for me.

goss

C2- yes they are main crop. Main crop is on new growth and breba is on last season's wood.

I took pictures of these main crop figs last week.

VDB As you can see. The figs are above the leaf nodes.


CONADRIA


Paradiso is also covered in main crop figs but alas no pictures.

I'm so jealous of all those main crop figs! 

If the embryos are as big as a rice,seed,then it is visible.
Embryos are round,growing buds are pointed,that is the difference.
I think I have seen embryos on Marseilles black vs ,today,but will take pixies on June First.
And also it will be nice to know if plant is in pot or in the ground,and if it is in pot,was it in the Greenhouse last Winter.
Because if it was in Greenhouse doesn't count,as it can't be assessed if it is an early or a late ripening fig,and will confuse the finding.

Almost all my 25 gallon potted figs have embryos and most of my 5-15 gallons have them as well. My inground trees just shot out small leaves. I don't have high hopes for them this year. I will post details tomorrow.

All of my pics are from trees in the ground and I do not have a greenhouse. My big VDB must have more than 400 figs on it right now. I suspect it will ripen many more than that before first frost. It has roughly 25-30 branches 3'-8' tall that are just covered in figs.

Atreano
Celeste
vdb-has ripe figs too
Panache
Strawberry verte-ripe figs too
Corky's honey delight
Desert king
Conadria
Unknown Bethlehem
Unknown Tennyson
Lsu purple

All above have figs bigger than a marble.

herman - is there a specific date you will start pinching or always after 5 leafs regardless of the date?

Not much action with mine. Just a couple here and a couple there. That's it.
I need to stop chopping away at my figs.

Looks like I'm in for a disappointing season as far as the fruit goes.

Best of luck to all.

I am pinching after five leaves this year,and there is no date when I start,but there is a date when I stop,pinching.

July 10 should be the time to stop pinching,and do a thinning,on the tree.
Thinning of branches that have no fruits on them,to aerate the canopy of the fig in my climate.
So the sun will penetrate the whole canopy.
It is needed to ripe the existent fruits,in marginally climates ,for fig tree like most Northeast ,Canada and mid atlantic states.
Also new fruits appearing after July 20 should be removed as soon as they are noticed,for the same reason:Ripening the existent more mature fruits.
Warning:People In Central California or other long hot Summer with mild Winter,are not needed to do these procedure.

Atreano RR    pot             Main crop figs as of Jun 1 some large enough to be sure 
Black Mission  pot                others marble or  larger size.
Branca          pot
Brunswick      in ground
Celeste            ig
Down's Celeste  ig
Hardy Chicago   ig
Green Italian     ig
Red Italian        ig
Lange           pot
Preto            pot
Unknown Dark Purple  ig
Unknown (first year to bear)  ig
Patrick Super Giant ig

All of my larger trees have main crop figs forming.  I planted several smaller plants this spring, and none of them are showing any figs yet.

Desert King (most of these main crop will drop off prematurely)


Black Mission



Hardy Chicago



LSU Purple



Barnissotte



Unknown from NJ



Violette de Bordeaux



Black Madeira

Your trees look amazing Joe. So nice and healthy. I suspect you are going to have a good harvest this year.

wow.. all mine are just the side of match head. i see some of you guys in better weather are already good size. hope everyone has great season this yr. 

Thanks Thisisme.  Your trees look great too.

Pete I hope we all have a good harvest this year, no matter where we live.

I only have one that I am 100% sure of.
That is Grimo's Brown Turkey, which has been identified on this forum as a Celeste variant.
I like this tree. it does not require pinching; it puts out 5 or 6 leaves and sets its fruit.
Also last spring it was accidentally left out overnight during the fig shuffle and took 25 F night
with little to no damage to the newly unfolding leaves.There was ice on the bucket of water beside the plant,
and only a few black spots on leaves were evident over the next week or so.

thank you herman for the detailed answer

hey grant - can you please post some pics of your grimo brown turkey if you get a chance later on the season
how does the fruit taste ?