On June 1 only 1 of my plants had any main crop figs forming, now a lot are starting to form.  At what size range are main crop common figs receptive to caprification?

Bob, in an email, Francisco mentioned that pollination would happen (in his climate) around the end of June, and he also mentioned that figs would be around the size of a marble at that time.
I hope he sheds a little light.

For me, it's too early I do anything beyond watching my Caprifigs grow this year, as they are still too small.
Hopefully next year I'll have something to work with, and I will try to start around the end of June, but will continue for a month, in 5 day intervals, since it is likely that our climate would have us a couple of weeks behind Mediterranean or California timelines.
Will you be trying the toothpick method for hand pollination, or acquiring Caprifigs with wasps?

It makes them taste better for starters.  Later, when I get my own persistent caprifigs fruiting I can grow the seeds from the common figs that were caprified and see if there are some good tasting common figs that are produced.

I would assume you have to have a common fig with an open eye..  Any recommendations for common figs that would be significantly improved with caprification?  Also if they were hardy to zone 7 that would be nice..

Hello,

This thread might also be interesting to you:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/common-figs-and-pollination-7492161

On it Francisco posted this link to a very interesting document about caprifigs where it discusses some of these questions:

https://archive.org/stream/caprifigscaprifi319cond#page/n0/mode/2up