I was out and about this morning feeding the chickens and transplanting a couple of small trees from cups to pots and decided to check out my orchard for ripe figs. As I walked through them I begin to realize how pretty and green the trees are with their new leaves and I have as many figs on my trees as I did in the spring. Now that the weather is dry, perhaps I'll get to sample more of them. Summer temps usually last late into October and some years even beyond, so there is a good chance that many of them will ripen. Here are a few pictures taken this morning. Some seems to be breba but they're not, just leaves that have fallen because of rust.
Enjoy,
"gene"

China White


Paradiso "Gene's" in foreground and Cajun Gold in background.


J.H. Adriatic


Strawberry (local heirloom)


Hollier


LSU Tiger


O'Rourke


Cajun Gold


Tena

They look great Gene:)  

Fabulous looking Gene!

That looks great.

Gene thats a nice extended season you have there, may you enjoy many a ripe fig this year and mostly rain free .

Wow, those are looking great!  Gives me hopes for some of my own to continue and ripen up this season.

Dadgum, Gene, you have no dearth of fruit there. I am curious, though, whether the loss of leaves affects the ripening of figs.

Thanks everyone for looking. Dale I can't answer that question yet. The only one that is ripening now is Mead. It is mild in flavor and not very sweet, but then again those or lower on the branch without leaves. It shouldn't be long before the one with leaves ripen and I'll be able to judge the difference. The best so far are the O'Rourkes, boy I like the flavor of that fig. Also I have one named Ventura that is putting out green figs with deep red interior. It is ugly but sure is great tasting. I only have a couple left but I'll try to get a picture of a ripe one.

I also wanted to put up a picture of my fig tree guards. Hopefully they will help me have better figs next year.

 hey Gene..............the chicks are looking great

Gene, looks similar to my my yard, minus the chickens.

The trees get a second wind once they shed their rusted leaves.

Nice pics and very heavy fruit set!

Barry let's just hope and pray we get to eat some. Good luck to you Frank. Brian I starting to look for that first egg. It shouldn't be long.
"gene"

Looking really good.

Thats alot of figs! I like the bird netting aswell. I net off half of my back yard every spring too. Its amazing how much more fruit you get!

Thanks Ryan, if you're ever in Houma drop in and say hello. Yes the netting makes a big difference.
"gene"

   As far as that question on stripping the leaves off the branches, I started doing it last season in order to hasten the ripening of the figs...I found that it does quicken the process(something like putting tomatos in a sunny spot to turn them red), except in this case I leave the figs still attached to the tree and remove any shade, by stripping most of the leaves off...this year instead of stripping most of the branch, I wait to see which figs are starting the ripening cycle(just starting to turn color), and then I only remove the leaf or two that is blocking the sun from that fig...seems to work just as well, as all of the figs on the tree don't ripen at the same time...so as I'm checking out the trees each day, I strip off the necessary leaves and bag the fig with the organza gift bags and wait for full ripening...seems to work Ok for me.

Great harvest of a diversified lot of figs
Nice orchard
Congratulations

Francisco