Today,we have flood warning,again from the rain coming this evening.
So I went and harvested all the figs that were ripe at this moment.
They are all OFF color due to unprecedented rains in August which accumulated a lot of water in soil,to the point the soil is wet like in a marsh land in Florida.
So fruits suck water in them,and never get ripe correctly,the color is off.
If one wait for the fruit to turn Purple blue like it should,when it does,it is sour,like vinegar inside.
so that is how it works.
Here in this container we have : Marseilles black vs,LSU Gold,Gino's fig,Black Sicilian,Malta Black,Sal (Gene),Tacoma Violett,etc.
Of course nothing is black ,nor violett,because everything is redish,Yellow,and is very hard to sepaRATE ONE CULTIVAR FROM ANOTHER EXCEPT,tHE lsu GOLD WhICH IS YELLOW.
These are very good but not excellent to eat,as they are not in their top Flavor,but are very sweet and so very good for Fig Jam.
I was making Fig Jam,a week ago from the first Harvest,and It came out perfectly sweet with only one cup of sugar(8 ounces),to every pound of fresh figs.
I am wondering why some recipe circulated on this forum are listing 5 pounds of sugar needed to 3 pounds of fresh figs,to make fig jam.
That in my opinion is Guaranteed Brain Stroke,or Hart attack,after consuming it,in my opinion.
Here is a pix of the harvest today:

I saved about a gallon of dark figs before the rain and froze them and hope to make preserves tomorrow.  Each batch of preserves I have made (4 from last year) I have used less sugar in the process.  I washed the figs, put them in a large pot, no water added and used a potato masher to mash them, on the stove eye at a heat  setting to get a slow bubbly brew going for 45 minutes while continuing to stir them and added the a cup of sugar to about 3 lbs and this way worked for me.  Concerning rain in  east TN., August had 1/10" rain, Now in the last 24 hrs,it has rained about 2" so far and most is soaking in with some creeks out of banks and a lot of water on the roads.  It is forecast to rain about another 8".  If it does, things will get interesting around here.  My green Italian figs have suddenly doubled in size since yesterday afternoon. Unless they smell like vinegar, they will be picked tomorrow and go in the pot.

I picked ripe figs today also.  More rain forecast for the northeast.  I never thought about freezing them.  I have to try making some fig preserve too someday when I have a good harvest.  I tried this last year and couldn't stop eating it on Ritz crackers.

Herman,

Joe may be 125 or more.
It was 5 kilograms,or 11 pounds,divided by 40 grams each fig that makes 125 fruits
Yes I had to freeze them because I can't make Fig jam right away ,and if left outside they sour fast,and spoil.
Refrigerated they are ok for fig Jam,but not Ok for fresh consumption.

Herman,

September 20/2011:
After 4 days of dry weather today is raining again.
With the help of my patio umbrella ,i was picking these fruits today for making Fig Jam.
They are a bit off color,but very sweet,for the fact it was 4 co9ld days too with temperatures under 70F,in the middle of day and 45 F in the night.

Herman,

Yes

Thanks.

Not really:They were splitting from this morning rain coupled with cold temp. ,and can't let them any longer on tree,because they will sour in this situation.
I had many more beautiful Atreano fruits when weather was with less rain.
And I am sure I will have more beautifull fruits from Atreano,this October.
Best tasting fruits are in October from This cultivar.

We've had rain since yesterday, and more on the way today and over the weekend.  I've just now covered my trees to keep the rain off of them.  I'm close to getting some ripe figs, and I don't want the rain to spoil what I have.  My Marsielles are almost ripe, along with my Atreano.

Most of my figs are splitting or taste watery and yes it is raining again here today too. This is definitely record breaking weather and not fun.

My fig started splitting very bad this Morning,and I am going to lose a lots of them to souring.
This time can't even harvest them for fig Jam,because they split before they are enough ripe to be sweet enough to be harvested.
I do not use them if they are not naturally sweet.
I do not blame the trees,this time it is much too much rain,and more is coming.

Herman2 -- hope you have a good harvest of Jupiter grapes. Awesome tasting like NY Muscat. Awful weather here for main crop figs. We have been hit hard this year -- late brebas due to cooler spring & early summer set the crops back. Best chance for main crop figs to ripen here would be Osborne Prolific.

My Jupiter grapes produced large volume of grapes but I only could use what was getting ripe before August 15.
Since the continuous rain started,the plants lost all their leaves to Downy mildew fungus,so the remaining grapes,Like half total never got ripe anymore without leaves to feed plant so they just shriveled and died ,sour,and bad.
Over all I am still pleased with the cultivar because this Summer was the worse for ant fruit plant,yet it manage to have some good grapes without any spray at all,totally organic growing.
Would you believe:Osborn Prolific (2strains),tend to drop figs here,because of excessive heat I guess!