Our breba crop started ripening June 30 and is still ripening.  I was only able to start picking today, so many of the figs were dried on the tree but all are still very tasty so this will be my first attempt at making fig preserves.  It is so hot and dry here in east TN that many crops are really stressed, but this still looks like a banner year for figs. The main crop is setting now.

My Patrick Super Giant brebas have been ripening for the past few days and I have been eating 2 each day.  This morning I checked and birds, and bugs have sampled several.  Disappointed, I started to leave and saw a nice one on the ground, undamaged.  It was excellent tasting and not watery.  I ate the other half on the saucer before the pic.The main crop figs are growing great.  My trees are too big to net, so hope there is enough for me after the birds and bugs eat their share.

C.H. thanks for posting this . A cutting of Patrick's is growing strong for me
and I'm happy to see the the size of the figs and good to know they are excellent tasting!

You need those organza bags from ebay !! They do protect the figs !

Wow!  Nice fig.  I have one trying to root but the gnats love to love it.  That one is definitely going to be on my list for the winter rooting.

Is Patrick Super Giant hardy in KY/TN zone 6b?

CH, what does it taste like? The one you sent me is a monster but of course I won't get figs this year, I can't wait though.

Pattee, I just ordered 100 moss green 4x6 Organza bags, because birds are not bad on my Green Italian.  Thanks for the information.  

Tim let me know  by personal message this Autumn, say late Nov and I will fix you up with some PSG cuttings. As for zone 6B the only outside planting advice I can give is plant in near a building preferably on the south side, so it can see the sun all day East to West and protected from the harsh North Weather.  I worked in Paducah, Ky. years ago and also Paradise, Ky, and the winters are KKKKold!!!  

Tami, the PSG brebas have been good, not great.  I eat all the fig and my wife, eats the inside and pulls off the skin, but hey, I eat a peach with the skin.  The color has been tan to light brown with amber to light pink inside.  The taste has been subtle figgy, not intense other flavors and not real sweet. I cut them up and put on my morning cereal.  I pruned the trees heavy in late winter so my breba crop was what I left untrimmed for that purpose and not many at that.  IMHO, Patrick Super Giant is excellent for preserves due to its large size and ability to get a good sweet preserves without adding a lot of sugar.

Glad you ordered the bags C.H. 
The main reason I got my PSG was after reading your description on it . I wanted a big fig to make preserves and that was what you suggested and I believe you also said big enough to stuff ! I can get creative with that size fig .

Thanks CH for the offer I will definately take you up on it this fall. I see from your profile utilities, I assume Shawnee steam plant or possibly Joppa? I know several of the TVA guys at Shawnee. Everyone around here worried about USEC plant closing this fall.

I enjoy reading about your figs.

Thanks again.

TVA Shawnee 1969 and 70.  TVA Paradise Fossil Plant  1983-84 after "Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away"  There was a song that went," Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River where Paradise lay,  I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking,  Mr, Peabody's coal train done hauled it away".

Know that song well. We go by Paradise pretty regularly from W KY to Russell Springs and always reminds me of the song when we cross the Green River and see the plant.

Small world.

Tim