Over the past 2 weeks, it has rained every DARN DAY!!!! ARGH!!!! At the same time, its been hot. My trees are completely soaked. With all this insane weather, some of my trees are trying to ripen their brebas, Negronne (in-the ground with plenty of brebas), Longue d'Aout, Desert King, Weeping fig, Peter's Honey, and Hardy Chicago. Over the past 2 days, I've picked one of these figs because they sucked up so much water, split and turned half ripe. Since these figs were half ripe, the birds started eating the darkest ones... Hardy Chicago and Negronne. They did not touch the others.

Well, I got some ripe brebas but they were not worth eating. The largest ones were LdA and PH. The only one that was edible was Weeping and it was watery. Man, if the rain would stop I can only imagine how these would taste. I started covering up my trees to keep the birds out but we're suppose to get rain again every day the rest of the week! All of those trying to ripen will just soak up water.

Man! It's always something....rain.....birds......ARGH!!!!!

Well, you have done such a good job educating the local wildlife on the qualities of the different figs!  Now they know exactly which figs to go after!  The best, of course.

Me?  I'm praying that not all of the rest of my brebas go pop, and for a long, hot, dry period...

Yes, I'm experiencing the same thing.  Rain every day and then I find that one of my Violette de Bordeaux brebas is pretty much pecked down to nothing by the birds before it was even close to being ripe.  For whatever reason this year the birds are more numerous and aggressive toward all my edible plants (raspberries, currants, strawberries, blueberries, and now figs) than in other years. 

fig stuffed birds. i heard most of them taste like chicken. dennis, i know how you feel, it's same thing up here 3 hrs from you.

Same thing here in MI minus the ripe figs.   Rainy and cool yesterday, overcast and humid today.

Hope it gets hot and dry soon.

We've had enough rain to last us the rest of the summer. We were below normal for rainfall earlier this year but I think we've made up the deficit and then some. With so much rain I noticed some rust starting on some leaves. Also the mocking bird population is increasing so any fig that ripens will cause a war between man and any avian beast. I'll have to break out the heavy artillery. The heavy artillery will be netting so no worries about any harm to the wildlife. I'm an animal lover and fig tree hugger ;)

We are in the same ark here in east TN Dennis with fig brebas swelling quickly to much more than their normal ripe size.  Mockingbirds are sitting sentry on every nearby tall tree,  power line and roof top, just waiting.  So far all the brebas I have picked have been somewhat watery making it a bad year to judge quality. It is raining here now, with days more forecast, darn!!.  The only good outcome for me has been in moving potted trees from my flower bed, my wife's flower bed and other unlikely places to an old round pen in the nearby pasture.  The overcast and rainy skies has made the move less traumatic for the potted trees.  They are in an area now with more sun and easier to use the almost rusty sprinkler again. 

We are on Stage 2 water restrictions!  Automatic sprinkling twice a week on garbage pickup days only.  Hand watering in allowed, they say it is more efficient.

I think it rained 2 weeks ago - not sure. 

My tree had a slow start this year since it was cold throughout April.  There have been a few grasshoppers on the tree with some leaves eaten off.  It appears  they finished a leaf before moving on to the next, I think that's a good thing;)

It seems the cool rainny weather has left us now its just hot n humid here. No brebas here but got mains on and growing fast on petes honey and hardy chicago. A little rain is nice but Tuesday was a little over board. My rain gadge says we got. 6.25 inches Tuesday alone.

Getting so much rain have had to put swimmies on the horses. Paddock flooded last night and I had to follow a water track half way to Lake Hartwell to find their grain bowls which had washed away. Think we got over 6" last night and another couple so far today with the worst yet to come. Already lost both my peach and plum crops due to heavy rains and hail and now the blueberry bushes look like weeping willows with water saturated berries weighing down the branches. As an eternal optimist, have decided that this will be the year I work on all the plants instead of the crops (I have pretty much kissed those off).  Can identify with the guy in the above cartoon which I am posting especially for Snaglpus.