Surprised to see these figs to take too long to become ripe
They are:

Zidi nr 2- A lighter variant
 

Vassilika Melissi
 

Kalamatiana
 

Smyrnaika
 

Shensharé
 

Francisco

droo-oo-oo-oo-ling!

The dark figs are wonderful shade of purple. Good looking figs all around.

Your dark figs always have such a beautiful colour skin, they are fantastic.

wow!!!
Francisco you have as many greek figs as i do. LOL.
i think you should change the name of your vasilika from melissi to mavra.
the seller sent you the wrong one. but they look great.

Great looking figs!

As for being late, I'm still waiting for my first one of the year... I think my figs have been in the stagnant stage for about forever!

Thank you ALL for commenting on this post.
This is the very first time I grow these varieties and was not expecting to wait this much to see these figs achieve full maturity.

Andreas,

You are right..I thought the same but my supplier mentioned ..Melissi. Whatever it is is welcome. No problem about that. both are great figs.

Phil,

Sorry for that. You shall have to be a bit more patient.

Francisco

Muito obrigado, i enjoyed every single picture Francisco! 

Francisco
You may have a good reason to call them late ripening.
When do your plant break dormancy and start budding?
I take out my plants outside the protected environment in mid to late April. Our breba this year starting ripening some ten days ago, end of July.

I agree with Chivas about colour of your dark figs, blue fuzz enhancing the dark colour. I never get such fuzz on any of my dark fig in my Zone 5a summers.

Hi Lampo,
In southern France, the main-crop season will begin after this week, so you are not really late - as I suppose those are main-crop figs.
Nice strains by the way ! Zidi2 is beautiful !

Here in zone 7b many of our figs are not ripe yet, so I would  not say yours are late. In fact, you are further along than most of my figs. I have 5 varieties that have not yet given a single fruit yet. Mr Smith at the fig orchard near-by said his trees were all 2+ weeks late ripening this year. I think some varieties here will be pushed back to last Sept.

My Colar Brebas are just starting to swell now, if we had more heat, I think 2 weeks ago they would start to swell.  The bad thing is, just as it started to swell we are getting a lot of rain, it should dry up for when they are ripening but we will see.  Main crops, should be coming in 2-3 weeks I am hoping.

Thank you all for your comments.
When I said that they are late ripeners it's because the majority has already produced lots of figs, many drying on the trees and the country markets started selling the dry figs from the season side by side with the same varieties but..still fresh!

Ottawan,
Normally they break dormancy around mid March.

Those 'late' ones are all from EU Med places.

 
 
 
 
 

Francisco

Those dried figs look very delicious, like candy.  How is the Euxario?  It looks like a very big fig but is it also a tasty variety?

Yes James, they are, both fresh and dried.
Those black Euxarios go from 2 to 4 euros per Kilogram/fresh depending on size and freshness
--the whites, no more than 2 euros/Kg

When dried, Euxarios of good size and quality may go as high as 10/12 euro/Kg
The white figs (Pingo de Mel or Côtios), maximum 5 or 6 euros.

Francisco