Some pics of different stages of ripening. We have had a relatively warm dry summer, until a couple weeks ago we received a record amounts..luckily no flooding for me but others not so much. Anyway the rain totally ruined the remainder of my Peters Honey, and made a for a few tasteless Hardy Chicago, but all the Petite Negra have been unphased and delicous-sweet/fruity/some crunch.

In the pics of the figs on the plate there is a PN on the left and HC on the right. Both were great.
Thanks for looking.

The tree, 3yr old. Bought it last April.

OMG you've got me drooling. What is RT? Where did you get this?

they look amazing.
did you notice any difference in taste with the clay pots? 

Calvin: They are gorgous. Thank you for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Tami-  Thanks. RT=Raintree nursery, the tree has been very healthy. I think it may have a very weak strain of fmv, it will make 1 or 2 leaves with a hint of mottling which goes away, so by mid July you can't tell it was even there.

Eli- Thanks, I never tasted them any other way so I don't know. I am a fan of clay pots though.

Tam- Thank you.

 

What a great set of pictures! Thanks for sharing
Is it typical for this fig to have so many on it at once? It would be so hard for me to resist early harvesting, but I see you waiting until you got some drooping and slight wrinkles on the surface.

wow those look really tasty...

Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Some among the ripe ones in the pictures look very ripe. Consider yourself lucky that you can keep ripe figs on the tree for that long. Some are not that lucky and the figs disappear when making decision if ripe or wait another day. This happens even to the green ripening figs.

Yes to what Ottawan said. I have a still firm Gino's that has already been half eaten. I just felt it yesterday and it was nowhere near ready, and today it's half gone. Tonight I dragged inside two 5 gallon pots with almost ripe figs. Zidi and unk Pastilliere. I want these for myself.

Nice photos, nice figs. Thanks. :)

Calvin,
Thanks for posting pictures and commentary.
And thanks for posting pictures of the tree and leaves.

Very nice Calvin. Thanks for sharing

Mike,Pete,Gina,John- Thank you for looking, it's fun to have something to share.

Gina, Ottowan- I am lucky, and surprised. The wasps have hit the HC some, I was out of town for a bit and had one that the wasps were eating and then the fruit flies were able to lay some eggs and start some larva inside. So that was gross, didn't eat the remains of that one. Since then with my HC, I put an apple maggot bag over them for first few days of ripening to keep the bugs out, then they seem to leave them alone for the last few days so I am able to uncover them. The PN, they haven't bothered at all..so that's easy. I do have all the usual suspects around though..squirrels, raccoons, jays, I guess I'm lucky so far and I'm for sure OK with that! I think the wasps prefer my Goji berries and the squirrels prefer my blackberries, and I always scare the coons off because I water late at night with my headlamp on. I did buy the motion detection scarecrow sprinkler earlier this year but haven't had to use it yet.

Chrisware- I hope I get more and more every year until it plateaus at some point. I only have 3 trees this age. The other two are Peters Honey and Flanders. PH has 2x more figs on it, but as I said above, since the rain they have been worthless. Flanders is moderately hampered from FMV and not very productive at all, I'm torn what to do with it. It has put on more growth in the last month than all it's time combined though...so maybe next year, I don't know, maybe the axe. It will be a last minute decision.

they look absolutely amazing