Even tho there isn't a cat in hell's chance they will ripen, I'm amazed that last year's cutting is already producing fruit. Is that a record?

Pics to follow later this week.

EDIT: My Italian Purple took 3 yrs to produce fruit, and 4 yrs to produce fruit that ripened.

My this years cutting started in Feb, Strawberry Verte, has about 15 figs. The largest 7 or so are little smaller than the size of a golf ball.

ok, you win greenfig. Shame I can't send you your prize.

I am sure there are more people with their success stories!
I ran outside and took some picks. Please attached, that is a Strawberry Verte from Encanto.

That's pretty good going, but just hang on there one moment young man!

What was the size of your plant when you took possession? Mine was just an 8" stick that was cut last October. Yours may be more recent (by around 4 months), but I suspect you might have had a head-start if you purchased an established plant from a nursery, right? 

I got 2 cuttings from Jon past February, I believe they were about 6-7 inches long.
You still can see the cutting's end sticking out.
No cheating here! My plants just the Californian weather :)

So this makes the SV about 6 months old.

Costas,

I have a history of this SV, actually!
I posted its photo previously in this post:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/cutting-competition-6328924

Now both cuttings from that post, the SV and the Golden Celeste, have figs on them. The GC figlets are much smaller though, about 1/4 inch.

ok ok, I believe you, thousands wouldn't ;-)

OH NO  I thought I was supposed to remove the figs from my this year cuttings.   cryyyyyy

Soni,
I have two of those, I removed figs from one and left on the other.
The one without figs is about 20% taller but thiner.
This one looks better to me, maybe because of the figs?...

I hadn't thought of that. So is it better to remove the figs from recent cuttings/small trees when they have no chance of ripening? I can see the logic if so. You want all the growing energy to go into the young/small tree, right?

Wow, Costas, you are quick! Only 6 months past :)
I do not remove the figs because of 2 reasons:
1. I want to see if the variety I just rooted is what I thought it was, no need to waste any time and money on the mislabeled guys, and
2. I am just anxious to taste that new fig.

That could be just me but having a few fig trees, I can tolerate the slower growth if it is a side effect of the keeping the figs on.

So far, I had 3 completely wrong figs that I caught early on, and I am glad I did since I managed to replace them.

Your choice is greatly depends on your climate. With 11 months long season I can probably have more growth with figs on than some other people in colder climates who remove the young figlets.

Hey greenfig, don't you mean 2 years+?

Yeah, sometimes takes a while for the message to reach my grey matter. But I was referring to small figs on small trees that have no chance of ripening. Would ya still leave 'em on the tree?

PS Jokin' aside, was reviewing my historic posts for info., hence this afterthought/bump.

Lol! Didn’t notice the year :)

I think you are right, there is no point leaving the figs on if they have no chance to ripen and if the tree is still growing. I am not sure that is an issue if the the trees go dormant soon, the figs would probably fall off themselves anyway. 

True enough buddy, but again, I had in mind figs growing near start of season rather than close to end. Over here, the tree has to be fairly mature (3-4 yrs on average) before the fruit starts to ripen. Don't forget, I'm in London, not in Death Valley.