I am always amazed at the photos here of figs with honey ooozing out.  Today I discovered the honey drop.  Sorry I didn't take a photo of the cut fig, but it was perfectly ripe and perfectly delicious.  Very juicy.  Mary Lane Seedless with Honey:

 

Suzi

did you try the "honey" by itself?
I had my first one a couple weeks ago and did that, it was awesome!.  mine actually tasted and had the texture of honey

I wasn't thinking about that.  There is ONE more on the tree, and it has the drop, but it's not yet soft enough, so I'll check daily and THEN I'll try just the honey.  This is so much fun!  Can't wait to try just the honey!!

Did you lick it or slice it off?

Suzi

I'll move my rubber snake in closer to that last fig.

Suzi, the honey is awesome.

Would you please post a pic of the inside of the next one?

Mike, I just walked out to look at it, and saw ants!  OMG!  So now I have coated the area with cinnamon and sprayed with Tabasco.  My mission is to see if a local hardware has Tanglefoot.  That fig should be ripe in a day or two... The honey drip is a little bigger on that one.  I was surprised that it wasn't sticky on the pictured fig in this thread.  It actually had a hard seal on the outside, kinda like a water balloon.

I promise to take photos of the INSIDES of the last Mary Lane Seedless and post them in this thread.  Maybe tomorrow if it's ripe

Suzi

You are growing excellent cultivars, Suzi. I am envious!  Joe in Georgia

Suzi, the honey drop looks awesome.

Glad you enjoyed your Marylane Suzi. I like to taste that drop of ooze when i get a fig with honey.I am out of tanglefoot, so I tried cinnamon, it didn't work...They just went to the underside where the cinnamon was not covering the fig. My first three figs have been picked too early for my taste because of the tiny ants. Mostly they run out after a few thumps.

Mike in Hanover, VA

I just wish someone would tell me.  Do you lick?  Or do you cut it off?  I am not in the mood to share.  Jeeze!  JD is a night owl.  I get up early, so I get the fig.  It's his fav, so I wait to cut when he gets up around 10 AM.  That last fig is soft, and the honey is huge!  I'll cut it early morning, take photos and post. 

After my Tabasco/cinnamon treatment, I still see ants, but that drop of honey is huge!  See ya tomorrow AM.

Suzi

That looks delicious and the talk of honey around here every day is making me crazy haha!  

Look awesome!

Suzi, we harvested our first drop of honey on the same day!  Mine was on figo preto around 2pm today:

It didn't occur to me to eat the honey separately either. :-(

I think it looks so cool when the fig is dripping honey.

I have a lot of fig trees and most don't drop honey.  Just wait!  Tomorrow I will pluck the honey dripper from the tree.  She actually has two drips... they are encased like a balloon.  She is soft, but not dropping into my hand at a little tug.  tomorrow.

I am a tease, but YOU have teased me for years!  Deal with it!!

Suzi

Looking really nice Suzi! Can't wait to see a pix of the insides!

If you can find it, Niagara Black has an insane ammount of honey that drips before it's ready, it just keeps dripping and dripping.  Good lookings figs you guys have.

I have a couple Niagaras, sounds like I'll need a honey collector. I hope it's a good fig for Florida mine are still young.

This morning first thing, I went out to pick that fig.  To my dismay it had ants on it.  The cinnamon / Tabasco treatment didn't work.  Tanglefoot is on it's way for my other trees from Amazon.  I blew the ants off, and tried to pick it.  It didn't drop in my hand, but I didn't want to lose it to the ants, so I tugged.  It was really soft and I actually ripped the top of the fig a little.  The stem didn't want to come with it.

 

Notice two (not one) honey drips, and even some on the sides.  No wonder the ants were interested!  I licked, and one drop was harder than the other.  The flavor and texture were pure honey.  Tasted like orange blossom honey, which, if we had the wasp (we could, but I've never seen one), would make sense.  We are surrounded by citrus groves, and bees abound.  Now here is the tease:

 

The drip you see is the part that I couldn't lick off without destroying my fig.  The fig was really soft and I didn't want to mash it.   This fig is hands down the best I have ever had!  So juicy and sweet with a faint crunch.  Definitely a honey fig!  It tasted like honey with a hint of sweet melon.  Pure joy!  And here is a close up of one half.

 
 

Suzi

Okay, there's the honey, the rest looks nice, congrats.

I'm just bumping this to get us thinking about figs and not fighting.  The two don't mix! 

I would love to fight whatever critter robbed my entire Verte crop!  But that's probably a coon or possum........ 

So what do you night posters think about my breakfast?

Suzi