nope, it wasn't from my trees. i was at local supermarket, harris teeters, and they had fresh brown turkey figs. since i never had fresh figs before, i got some.

from what i read in the forum, the fig wasn't really ripe. it was still little firm on the outside. maybe that's how brown turkey is. the taste was not intense or interesting, but that can be due to not being fully riped. the inside was little dry, no idea if it was supposed to be that way.

it had little sweetness to it, one that was more ripe than the others, but nothing to write home about. can't wait to see what my tress can do.

pete

Hey Pete,

Brown Turkey (in my opinion) is nto a good fig to sell at market.  They need to be "beyond" dead-ripe (squishy, mushy) to have any character of flavor.  Anything less and all you're going to get is sweet and possibly watery flavor like eating a watermelon rind instead of the watermelon.  Some people may actually react poorly to the sap content of the skin (throat constriction, etc.)

My Brown Turkey figs just finished ripening their breba crop about 3 weeks ago.  With you in NC, you probably purchased breba figs, not main crop figs.  The brebas are generally worthless on my 5-year-old in-ground BT tree.  Doesn't get much worse!

Whole Foods (more like "Whole Paycheck") had hordes of BT figs last fall around Oct/Nov.  Same issue:  whoever picked them chose to pick about a week prior to being semi-ripe, so they were firm.  My neighbor bought a four-pack.  Flavorless, firm thick skin, hardly juicy inside, no figgy flavor, very sweet. 

Not my schtick.