I'm not sure if I'm going to.

This is good thread thanks for posting it.
Just maybe there will be of more interest in this subject than in past when i mention it with pictures.

Your questions followed by what i see in my yard and not by reading online or in books.

Thanks for the reply.

Hi Alan, you type this part below
Dieseler - Yes my figs had spots like that on them yet my tree's leaves have never shown any signs of FMV if anything my other tree may have FMV. 
 
Mine that have the FMV display on figs are infected in leaves as well exactly like the turkish site that Bass posted last season.
To date i not seen FmV on a fig in my yard that did not display in the leaves .
 
I have yet to see it on my plants though that do not show it on the leaves.
Its only several plants that display fmv on the figs in my yard.
 
I do understand that bugs can bite and even sting the fruit as well i have seen that on pears that a friend used to bring to work and said "look what them darn bugs did and there was black spotting on his fruit.
 
But on mine its not bugs doing this its in the plants cells and getting into the fruit.
There are vegtables  
Here are some examples of when it first starts faintly and hardly noticeable looks like the sun is making a reflection on the figs but no.
 
Also another different example of fig turning color before its time without swelling and dropping you can see the spot in this particular fig it never darkend .
 
On another subject.
 
Another strain of Mosaic virus displays on the fruits of melon , cucumbers, squash to name a few when infected. Google it and you may be surprised.
There are many strains of Mosaic virus in different plants and vegtables.

Five feet apart?

Here is example of bleach look turning dark which all of mine eventually do with the exception of pastiliere fig.

That particular tree is a problem tree and drops its figs before the spotting can turn dark and has nothing to do with the spotting .

What im saying is the spotting on my figs from FMV on them eventually turns dark and fig will not ripen.

That turkish sie also shows necrotic spotting on figs as well.

Ooldghost i faintly see something .
In your first picture that big leaf right under those 2 figs can you take a topside picture of that particular leaf ?

Its pointed outwards in picture and hard to see good view of top but i do see what "may" be fmv spotting in that leaf unless its the suns ray reflecting something on to it ?

Ive seen fmv i can spot it easily.
Here is another few leaf pictures i showed in 2009.

In 1 picture shown underside of leaf with light shinning through and deformed also.

In other picture the faintest slightest mark showing a form of FMV underside and that same spot topside next to my thumb. It eventually gave the leaves on plant that fmv bubbling effect on the leaves that ive seen on the black ischia. - that leaf from Madeira a ucdavis special.

wanted to add that some of the best fig types have it and its not a big deal at all.

Good information Martin

Nick,

Here are pictures of FMV on figs. From a reference titled "Putative agents of fig mosaic disease in Turkey". Looks like the cuprit. Good luck.

Thanks for the great info folks, lots to learn here


David     Bowling Green

From the pics, I see a very slight form of FMV. I only say that based on my own observations of my own trees plus reading up on the subject.

If we all start to turn splotchy and deformed then we'll know. (Just kidding) I have had several of these deformed FMV figs and most of them do not ripen very well. The one fig that did try to ripen had a very poor flavor.

Usually fruits like in the above pixies will ripe only partially,half ripe and juicy half dry,and so forth.
Yet the fig tree as a plant will also produce healthy fruits that get ripe just fine.
I have no visible mosaic virus on my Stella but this year in July a couple of fruits in stagnant stage dried out,from the excessive heat and fell off.
The rest of them(a lots),are growing just fine with no spots ,no deformed leaves nothing like that.

Herman have you noticed a thicker skin on some of the first fruits this year?? the first few ripe figs had thick hard skins i this from the heat we got in our are this year?? I have been picking main crop for about a week now I do start my trees earlier in a green house them move them outside. Let me know your findings this year from the heat waves.. Thanks

Al ,You are right the heat is not helping,and that is why i think Stella dropped a couple of fruits.
Mine is not ripe yet because it is in ground so it is later than normal.
I think by the time Stella will ripe on my tree the heat will be gone so I will have better tasting fruits,than you who got your fruits getting ripe during the heat wave.