looks nice. how's it working out?

Mike, good efforts. You do need high temperature as well, not just the light. Are you keeping good high temp.
My plants ripened some fruit outside in the sunny but cold October band there was no sweetness..

It is 75 degrees. Do you think that is warm enough? i had a couple ripen outside last week that were still real sweet and tasty. I had a Paradiso to split really bad yesterday into this afternoon
but it was not ripe enough to eat. I also had a Brunswick ripen but had little taste. There are about 15 figs total on those 4 plants I want to see what happens with them. Haven't lost anything
if they don't. I will change gears and put some rooted cuttings under the lights for the winter.

Hi Mike,
I am just curious as to what the weather is like in Georgia this time of year.
how many hours of daylight?
average day temp?
nighth time temps?

Grant, we are having about 10 hours and 40 mins of daylight, 48 and 67 degrees is the normal high/low for this date, however todays temps were 37/57
and forecast tomorrow is 32/52. We did have the first measurable rain since Oct 1 today. October is the driest month of the year.

Mike, 75F may be Ok but a bit higher will be better, in my opinion.

Well, I suppose the fresh fig eating season at my house is over. I picked the last Paradiso and Kathleen Black figs today. They looked and felt
ready for harvest. The insides of all of them were only half ripe and the taste was not very good. Maybe the cold nights outside before
placing them under the lights inside did them in. Anyway, its time to move on to rooting.

It seems to me that the best way to extend the season is to get the plants out of dormancy early, so that you bring the harvest forward into more favorable weather. In my experience, fruit ripening results decline when temps are below 80F and 70F night. They may still "ripen" but the results are no where near what they should/could be.

I have tried to ripen fruit several times under articfical light, but the temperature is 20-22 c and the results were terrible, very insipid not sweet at all, maybe because the fruit started forming outsdie before being brought in, but I didn't think it was a great idea for me to do again.

Another way to 'extend the season' would be to get early, mid and late varities so you have a longer season overall as well to Jon's point to start them as early as possible, I think these things will produce more fruits over a longer overall period that will take a few years to really produce well if you're just stocking up.

How do you bring them out of dormancy? Fig shuffle as soon as day time temp hit...50?

I leave them into the garage and they tell me when to bring them out of dormancy, once their buds are swelling and start to crack i go with the fig shuffle.  It was early this year, around March so I did it for about 5-6 weeks I am hoping less time this year, depending how many I can safley cram into the poly tunnel.

My garage has wall on south side of the house. It gets pretty warm in early spring. Would taking them out to the sun help? I mean, a far as temp is concerned, it should be fine in there. This year, the older trees all broke bud and putting out leaves by the time night temp went above 32 in the garage.

I had one Black Triana to ripen under the grow lights which I picked today. It was not very sweet but had a raspberry taste. Don't know if that is
typical of this one or whether it needed more actual sunlight or water or what. There is one more remaining on the tree that is getting close and will
see how it compares next week.