Here is a picture of a tightly grouped cluster of figs on my black unknown. I don't know if you would call it a 3rd crop or another flush. Seems with the slower growth the figs are more tightly bound together and I noticed this with some others with new figs.
 

Sal, I've the same thing going on my LSU Gold (not). Will yours ripen? I have hundreds of figs all tightly grouped like that. In my case I know they won't ripen so I have a question. Seems like someone just recently wrote about breaking all those fig that won't ripen to make for a more productive breba crop in the spring. Is that correct. My tree makes large sweet and juicy breba but not many main crop ripen, just a few of the earliest ones. In fact I have two such trees side by side. I've broken all the figs off of one tree just to see if that's true, but if someone tells me it is so, then I break them off of the other tree also. Sal I hope you don't mind if I post a couple of pictures also.
"gene"

LSU Gold (not)



LSU Gold...the real one



Just a small portion of the broken figs on ground.

Gene I stopped fertilizing at end of July early August except for my new small trees. The trees lost most of their leaves and then started to put on new growth and fruit. I should have warm weather into Jan. so I hope they will ripen as I picked into Jan. last season. My LSU Gold and Conadria have also put out new figs and are more tightly grouped but not as tight as these as I should have trimmed or pruned those last season as they grew long and lanky this year. They will get cut back hard when dormant and I will pinch next season to promote more branching and closer nodes I hope. Nice to see your pictures as always. Look at Night Time post and 1st pic 2nd row is LSU Gold similar grouping to your picture
I couldn't bring myself to picking all that fruit off lol. but I know your season is different and I'm just starting to get ground ready to plant veggies ( about 3 wks late for me)

Hi Sal,
looks like you will have figs in time for Christmas which is about 79 days from now and those been on a few weeks?  Nice pictures by the way.

Last year I tried pinching and all it did to that tree is to make it branch out and grow 3 or 4 more branches and I ended up with the same clusters on the tip of those and neither figs ripened. It was hard to drop all those figs but I know they won't ripen and if it helps my breba crop for next year, so much the better. I've just about decide that those trees will be breba only trees and next year right after I pick the breba I will prune them back to promote new growth which will grow quite long before summer is over and should be the wood that I will pick my breba off of on the following year.

Thanks Martin a few Christmas figs would be a nice present

Here's an earlier post from Bass with how to preserve green figs:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2644562&highlight=recipe+green

“Here's a Turkish recipe for making Jam with under ripe figs. When Fall comes and your have lots of unripe figs, why not give this recipe a try?
http://www.lezzet.com.tr/mutfak_okulu/00195/

yes it's in Turkish, but from what I understand here's the ingredients:
500 Gram Figs
500 Gram sugar
2 cups of water
juice of half a lemon
3-4 cloves”

Not sure what is meant by “under ripe figs” so your figs may be too green for this process? Might be worth trying.

Sue

Sue, I make preserves with under ripe figs but they are not as under ripe as the figs I knocked of the tree. During the rainy season when the rain ruins the ripened figs, we pick them at the almost ripe stage meaning that are dark and the inside are just starting to sweeten, about 2 days early. The preserves are fully flavored and sweet because of the sugar added in the processing. Using such figs also mean that they stay whole during the cooking and canning. Just the way I like them on my breakfast plate in the morning.
"gene".

genecolin, please could you tell me how do you prepared those 2 jars on the right side- fig jars.
please could you explain it in details since I have no clue how to go about it.
Thank you very much.

Thank you very much genecolin.
Today I will try the way you described.

Best wishes

Gene,

That's some LSU Gold-Not tree, producing like that this late.  If you picked off the brebas, would that make the main crop ripen sooner, or do you think it's a tree that would need the fig wasp to ripen the main crop?

noss

Vivian, I don't know if picking the breba would make the main crop ripen. All I know is that the breaba are good enough to not worry about the main crop. Being I have 2 trees, I might try removing all the breba on one of them just to see. I don't think it need the wasp because I've eaten a few of the main crop, but only the very first one that set. It's still a mystery to me but one day....................
"gene"