Thank you very much for taking your time and to comment on this post.
Christian,
These figs may look big but they are average size, around 40/50 gram each, some bigger than that.
Harvey,
Appreciate your comments.
Once you start cultivating your San Pedro (main) and Smyrna varieties, I am sure you shall be much aware of what the dates are (what day of the month) versus the size and aspect of the still green figs,...if the Profichis are ripe or almost,...touching them feeling how soft the skin is, ...inspecting the surroundings of the receptive figs and Profichis to see plenty of ambushing tiny spider webs only seen if you look having them against the rising sun.. several darting minute aphids strategically placed to jump swiftly on wasps working the fig eye scales, etc...
Around the std pollinating time (mid June) or even before, this will be the scenario.
Then, once it starts it goes on, the spiders, the webs, the aphids, the Smyrnas getting bigger, changing color, new younger, small figs growing and getting pollinated .. and a month (?) or more from the start date, if all goes well you look around and you hardly see a brown, dry, wrinkled or non pollinated fig, well after the the Profichis drop drying to the ground.
It's a fact that enough wasps remain inside the fallen Profichi and these insects will in time keep pollinating those late figs forming in July or even after.
I remember long ago my dad writing to me to talk his crops and always there were a couple of lines to tell about the wasp efficiency on that particular season on the Inch Preto and once referred to the absence of Mammoni's but having discovered in the pleats of a heavy curtain on the farm implement shop, large numbers of live wasps through August..
In late season (say, now for instance) if in doubt about some small Smyrnas, look around and if the webs are still there I feel confident that they will make it.
All these little critters are far more knowledgeable than we are on the mysteries of mother Nature !
Francisco