Well you are both lucky that your figs can stay that long on the plant to ripen so much. I watch every fig in the ripening process but the squirrels beat me to it before it is completely ripen. I lost 4 big bifara fruit today, half eaten then shredded on the ground. I tried to beat the squirrels to one of the Bifara fat partially ripened fig and got stiff upper lip, visibly fat, most probably because of latex under the fig skin. I am thinking of paper and scotch tape to cover the ripening figs.