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The write-up at the following site provides good information for "Growing Degree Day (Heat Units)" suitability for grapes:http://www.geog.ubc.ca/courses/klink/g470/class02/apirzade/growingdegrees.htmIs there similar information available for figs growing and ripening?If not available, it will be a good service to the fig enthusiasts community by the forum experts to initiate similar info first in an estimated form and then gradually adding on and update the information. It will remove the guess work from ripening expectations and one can then think of means/mechanisms (such as localized green-house etc) to increase heat units. I am not sure if variations between different fig cultivar for heat units is much different than grapes (I have not grown grapes and have only 1 year experience in growing figs.I guess a good place for such info may be figs4fun.com.
See http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/figs4funforum/vpost?id=2733111&highlight=ripeningHopefully other people will join in adding to the data this season.Ripening order is probabaly roughly equivalent to heat units, in the sense that the point of heat units is to dertermine the likelihood of ripening in a given climate / length season. For instance, I know that I seldom ripen all of my Panachee in my climate, so if you are cooler or shorter in season length (such as closer to the coast than I am), you probably won't have much success. Last year 276-49 was the first to ripen for me, so it will be worth trying in cooler / shorter season climates.
Akram:Your thinking is right:Anywhere you can grow and ripe some varieties of grapes,you can also grow and ripe some varieties of fig.Of course only some ,and not all.!!!!Best regards