The past two summers have been relatively mild here: 90's for a couple of weeks in July, then that's it. Wetter than usual both years as well.
This year, we had a 14" snow on the Spring Equinox followed by no more days below freezing. July saw 5 inches of rain a couple of days at the end & serious heat (mid-90's--I know COULD BE WORSE!) set in for the next 5 weeks.
Figs in my yard went into a kind of hibernation- fruit-wise- during the heat.
30+ trees 2 miles away in my HoopHouse (cheating, I know) were under shade cloth from June on and they have been fruiting since August, steadily.
My 5-year old P. Negri yard tree, I might get ONE ripe fruit depending on whether we get any heat before the 1st big freeze! (next week?)
Not what I would have expected (more heat the better, right?).
What have you all observed? (Thinking esp. of TusconKen here).
Thanks,

Stephen--

My inground Brown Turkey always takes a vacation when the really hot weather hits (and this sumnmer didn't seem any hotter to me than normal). Vegetative growth stops, although the fruit continues ripening. A few weeks later, once things cool off a bit, the branches start growing again, and it puts out a new crop of baby figs that won't amount to anything because they don't have time to ripen. This year has been a little different in that I'm seeing some ripening in the second main crop. Many of the figs look big enough to make it, although ripening is much slower now. It takes more than a week to achieve what would happen in a couple of days in mid summer.

My UCD cuttings, on the other hand, seemed to love the hot weather and grew quite nicely in full sun, once they were fully-acclimated and as long as I kept their pots in an inch or so of standing water--they really suck it up during the heat. The growth wasn't as impressive as many of the examples posted by other formum members, but I was pleased with how they did. We'll see how the summers affect them once they're in the ground.

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