I was very happy to see my fig tree with figs on it the  being of
august,I've had it for three years and this the first time it has
figs,they just came out all over about 40 of them,about five are the
size of a quarter,the rest are dine size. the problem is I,m in northeast
ohio and the nights are getting down to the 40s. It's in a container.
what should i do? 

I doubt you will get ripe figs this season which is basically over for you and me in our area's. With cold nights like that and colder to come even your way next week perhaps and day time highs struggling to hit just 60 its not weather to ripen figs and if by chance a few do they will be bland tasting at best.
I also grow in containers and in early spring when temps near 50 i wheel them onto the driveway and back in at night every chance i get weather permitting . I do this to help waken them from dormancy even if i only gain 1 to 3 weeks it helps a great deal toward the end of the season.
Also growing the right type helps a great deal as well.
This is just what i do and others may do differently. One more thing i also do is i keep them containers in full sun .
Hope you get some idea's from this.

Carman
Many of us are in the same situation. I am in the north NE and have fat fig fruits on plants. Some have changed colours a bit but hard like rock. Only the 3 years old plants got me some ripe figs. The next year will be better, we hope. I don't expect any more ripening this year.

I still have figs forming on my plants.  Do I need to be pulling them off?   There is also a lot of new growth starting.   Should I be trying to slow their growth and if so how do I do that?  I am in central Florida and we are still in the 90's during the day and the low 80's/high 70's at night. 

Lisa
zone 9a

I force my in-ground figs into dormancy by cutting off their irrigation. I don't know if that's a good idea or not, but I've always done it to try to minimize frost damage, so they're not actively growing when it gets cold. When the leaves on the brown Turkey drop off, there are always numerous partially-developed figs left hanging on the branches. I usually pluck them off once they dry out, although I know of no real reason to do so.

This year, since the BT seems to have insurmountable souring problems due to a beetle infestation, I'm going to let it keep growing and see what happens. I'm curious to find out whether the figs will have time to ripen, and if they do, whether they will even be any good since the days won't be very hot. I figure I'll lose the current year's growth to frost damage, but I was planning to prune it back anyway--so that's okay.

1. I usually remove the new forming figs that have no chance of ripening so more energy is directed to the plant so there will be more more stored energy during dormancy.
2. The other reason to remove figs before dormancy storage is to ensure no rotting of fruit takes place thus avoiding rot to other parts of the plants when stored away out of sight.

demondmh

As a follow-up to my previous post about not forcing my tree into dormancy, I picked a ripe Brown Turkey fig today. It looked a little weird (some greenish areas) but tasted good. No beetles this time of year, but I still bagged the fruit to discourage birds. Two other figs are almost ripe, and are a bit larger, with more starting to swell. The tree got a little cold damage a couple of weeks ago on some of the newer leaves, even though we didn't quite reach freezing.

Ken,

I see why you have problems with the beetles getting in the BT figs. The eyes on the ones in the pics are pretty big!

Good Luck,
Little John

Yes, Little John, I'm really looking forward to trying some closed-eye varieties.