Well; what a disappointment it is.  A fine tree, figs as big as eggs.

BUT; open eye, and even a little shower here sours the fig.  Further, it is just now ripening, almost the middle of October, and we have no more hot days to bring them on.  Once the begin to sour little wasps about the size of a honeybee attack them---may as well, the figs are of no use to me.  I hate losing this tree--paid $50 for it as I recall, but it is useless in this climate, 35 miles S. of Tulsa, OK.

This leaves me with nothing but a couple of no-name-from-cuttings whose identity I've lost, a really nice Celeste, a Hardy Chicago, a Pakistani Black and a Plattner Violetta.  The last four are all in the ground.

The Celeste makes a good fig here, small, about the size of a quarter, but sweet.  The Hardy Chicago has no taste worth mentioning, the Pak Black is not much larger than the Celeste and ripening so late that I may never taste one.  (I'm going to let it grow another year to see if it improves as the tree matures) 

The Violetta just went into the ground this year, has only a branch or two (it nearly froze in its pot last winter) but it has one nice fig on it, larger than the Celeste.  Since it is said to be a variant of Celeste I expect it to be sweet when picked in the next day or two.

When I sent my potted figs away my daughter took a Texas Everbearing that had made really nice, big figs in late summer.  I need to get that one back.