It's a BT....Not sure if I should let it hang for another day or 3. Opinions appreciated.

Try to keep the roots from getting soaked.  The neck looks a little too stiff.  When that neck goes completely limp, and the fig skin just starts to shrink, maybe even split slightly...then, that fig will be ripe.  This stage of ripeness may come anytime, depending on heat, sun, etc.  If you are afraid that birds will peck your prize...cover that fig.

Good things come to those who wait.   : ))))))))

Frank

Im just worried about the impending rain we're going to get. It's a big fig and im looking forward to some fig redemption after being let down with a rain soaked latarulla this morning

I just set up a mine field around it and got out my rocking chair and shotgun.  Bring it on squirrels and birds.

Yeah it's a quandry. I picked my Latarolla and it was in a similar state, seems I could've left it on one more day, but the birds scare me and I saw cracks in the skin and it was my first from that tree. How bout you leave it on til the rain comes. A few hours might make some difference.

slingha...

Is that tree in-ground...or, in a container?  Cover the container with a cheap, plastic drop-cloth in case it rains.  If planted in ground, cover the area around the roots with a cheap plastic drop-cloth, and make sure the water will drain away from the tree.  Water at the roots = split, insipid, figs.  Don't go wobbly now. : )))) Laughing!

Frank

IMO,your fig looks like it will need a week or more of ripening ....that is if you have the sun and heat to ripen it in your climate.

   Rain or pests could ruin it, but I hate to waste the potential of what a fig could taste like if I am patient versus a so-so fig unless I am desperate ;) for a fig at the start of the season.

I'd say it needs time, but with BT it can be a gamble as to whether it will get fully ripe before it spoils.

Ken...

Is that a trait of "Brown Turkey"....sometimes spoiling before it gets fully ripe?  Would growing "BT" in a container make any difference.  What, culturally speaking, would cause that condition?

I'm curious.

Frank

Great line from my prom days!

Fig is in-ground. The eye seems open to me.  We're due for rain tonight  I may grab this one for my fig fix. Let the other 15 stay on the vine until they almost fall off. 

Needs some more time to ripen. I would leave on thru the rain and see how it reacts so you get a idea.

Some rains that last can absorb thru skin of figs and or eye,yours appears to be in down position which helps somewhat, but other factors also like does soil drain good or hold water , all day rain brief rain etc.etc.

If my fig it would stay on tree till fully ripe but its not mine.  Plus i have other trees to depend on.  ; )

That is a California Brown Turkey.
It needs to get ripe to be  decent.
Install net,and if it rain a patio umbrella will do the trick of stopping the rain.
This fig is decent tasting only if it ripe properly,but on the east coast ,conditions are adverse to ideal ripening.
It will be a struggle getting high quality fruits,maybe you use some mirrors,to concentrate  more sun on the fruits,there is a way, where there is will!

Herman....

Very clever, using mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto the ripening figs, and to just open up a beach umbrella to deflect rain.

You are right...as usual.

Frank

Frank, it was the pattern on my tree where if I waited for the fruit to get fully ripe, it often had mold forming or had gone sour from insect activity. The open eye and interior void make it more vulnerable to spoiling.

Herman- is this a hardy type? It's 3-4 years old. First year Inground. 

Check how soft it is, too.  I agree - not ripe.  Protect from rain and critters.

Tim is that the BT you got from me? If so yes I would leave it on. I can see how anxious you must be to taste different figs, but give it a little more time. If Herman is correct about the ID I am a bit surprised as I have had no problems ripening figs from that tree and no problems with any going bad. Only thing I've noticed is a couple dropping, but only a couple. It is a good producer. It needs protection though in ground or it would die to the ground and not produce figs with all top growth gone It would sprout up again, but you would have to protect it and wait another year for fruit. It was sold to my source from a plant stand somewhere in central Jersey. He planted it in ground and that as his experience. Only when I propagated and protected the plant did it fruit.

Barry

Its the bonsai. Over 20 figs on it and a sentimental favorite

It's really a gom jabbar test of your self discipline! ;)

Ok Tim, you are about to discover that Brown Turkey can be a pretty tasty fig Enjoy!!

four words.. watch out for birds. most of my figs were at that stage yesterday. today all of 'em has peck mark on them... oy..

Well ,If it is Calif. Brn Turkey is not very hardy.
If when you harvest,you see a large cavity inside,it is Cal.B T, if it is solid,it can be something else,after all there are hundreds of unknown Cultivars,sold,but if it is solid is better in our conditions.

So here's the epilogue.  The fig I posted pictures of orginally may have been too good to pass up for my fig starved eyes.  The good news is turned out there was one I found ripening right behind it.

So..The one I picked WAY too early(when I cut it latex came out of it) It was still good to my extremely unrefined fig pallet.  The next one I let hang until I thought it was going to drop(which was today).

So....see the following photos

1: Unripe fig cut
2: The new one that appeared the same day as I picked the other one(A day after I posted)
3: The same fig 3 days later on the tree
4: The split eye from all of the rain we've been having
5: The ripe one cut. 

I learn as I go.

Noss-

It was very juicy which i'll attribute to lots of rain. Seeds added a nich crunch.  A little fig taste. Sweet. Again I think the excessive rain may have diluted things a little.

There was no souring whatsoever and no insects present.  The eye was dried out from splitting.

I dont understand why people hate BT. I like it more than Latarulla and less than Celeste.

In Atlanta environs, BT is everywhere, along with Celeste, but BT figs are simply not especially exciting fruit in a place where we can grow some rather spectacular fruits.  BT is why we only had one kind of fig (we planted a garden center Celeste in deep shade, which died), and never really paid all that much attention to it during the decade it wasn't productive.

BT is fine, but people who are used to it think of figs as a second rate fruit, when that might not be fair.