This fig is on my Tiger tree, another for the odd ball file.

Looks pretty cool Barry. You have to show us what it looks like split open when it gets ripe.

Hi BLB,
I took this a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe our different type of figs knew each other in distant past.  ; ) 

Basically you have one fig forming through the eye of the first fig. Not real common, but it does happen. You will usually see a fine line on the skin where the eye of the one fig defines the boundary between the two.

This is a Yellow Neeches that did this, making for a fig that looks a bit like a guitar, in shape.

Yes Jon I can see the line on my fig too. I will take a pic of the fruit when I pick it, that is if I get it before the birds. Noss, the plant in the background is not a fruit, it's Thalictrum, Lavender Mist. It is a perennial flower that has grown to over 6 feet tall.

Barry is that your castle Kennedy?

No Celt, it is my Tiger, LSU Tiger to be specific since we have a couple of other figs with tiger in the name. Castle Kennedy has only produced one breba fig this year. Too much FMV on that one.

Quick and dirty way to protect one fig: newspaper and a couple clothes pins.

Thanks Jon, I will take a look at the fig today and if it is still whole I will protect it like that.

This is happening with my FDR and Kadota too.

Some varieties are a little more prone to it, but have seen it occasionally on many different varieties.

Jon, I was about to agree with you about the paper wrapping before I left for the week end but decided to wait until I returned. It had worked in the past for me. I just got home and found only the clothes pin left, the paper and fig were gone. But worst than that, I also wrapped one Paradiso with aluminum foil to make sure that if it rained the paper wouldn't melt away. Well them dirty birds peeled the aluminum back and got to the fig. You can see where they pecked at the aluminum until they got it open. I was so mad I forgot to take a picture of the shredded aluminum. So much for that theory, at least for South La. Man those birds are something. I told Linda that I'm gonna put out some rat traps baited with figs to see what I catch.
"gene"

my kadota has about 3 or 4 figs that look like siamese twins!

Maybe we can find a way of baiting the trap right on the tree. Or we need thick metal fig protectors. The birds are relentless around me and of course my neighbor likes to feed them. I feed them only reluctantly...with figs   

What about aluminum window screen, anyone tried?