As season winds down how was your weather and your fig crop this season and please mention your state if not in your signature . Thanks in advance

I can start by saying its been my worst year since i have been growing. Not counting the very first season of course when plant were too young to produce. Cold spring and not much of a summer as it was too cool here.

Martin,

We have had a terrible year around here as far as figs go!

Last year Mom put up 52 pints of Fig preserves, this year, only 8 pints.....That is quite a drop!


As I have learned to say, maybe next year.

Martin, somewhat dismal here too. Every fig fell off from heat/drought this year except

my unknown green fig that was delicious(It likes it dry). Thank heaven my Mother in laws' old Celeste held all it's figs. Most of my figs are young. Hoping for next year too.

Dismal is the word (at least with my crowded fig jungle here
in the NE). Also, we had no real (hot) Summer, and lots,lots
of rain...

My brown turkey, celeste and black mission figs are all loaded with figs.  I expect that they should ripen since central Florida usually doesn't get cold until after Thanksgiving.   We are still in the high 90's most days.

 I can't compare anything to last year since that was my 1st year for the brown turkey.  The black mission and celeste were planted this year and have tripled in size.  Each one has between 50 and 100 figs on them.  They are all in pots because of the potential for neamtodes.

Our summer was hot and once it started raining we had a lot.    When it stopped it sometimes went a week in between and I had to water.

I had a blessed summer & spring was warmer too. Lots of figs & still coming inspite of the colder nights now. Every variant seems to have done better than last year especially Vicenzo & Tony's Greek where I am getting loads of figs.. It seems if the East is not doing well, the West is going great. I got to try a few new variants like Slocan, Brooklyn White, MVS, Dark Portugueseetc.  Also I am so glad that my son has turned into a fig muncher. He used to detest them but this year he had a voracious appetite for them.

It is my third year of growing figs and, in relative terms, it is my best year because I got a few ripe figs. I didn't have bowls full of ripe figs but at least I had one or two ripe figs a day for the last week or more which I never experienced the two previous years before when the trees were small.
This means the frustration years are gone and I will be getting some fruit when the trees get matured by one year each year.
My best for giving me a few main crop ripe figs were Natalina, Celeste, Sal, and Marseilles VS Black (but really not very black). The Hardy Chicago is showing sign of fattening. The Capelas are big but hard like rocks even though they look like close to ripening.
I call it a good year because I got some more ripe figs than other years and now I have permission to store my plants in the family cold room in winter in exchange for more than 50% of the ripe figs. So, I can continue my enthusiasm for growing figs.

Weather-wise, it was a great year for my two figs (brown Turkey & black mission), with heavy production on both. Most of the BT crop was ruined by beetles, but we ate nearly all of the mission figs. Next year I'll be starting a bunch of different varieties--the list of "must haves" just keeps growing. At first I thought maybe a total of 5 would be more than enough, but now I'm closer to 20, thanks to everyone's raving about this or that sumptuous variety that I'd never heard of. So much for moderation!

South Louisiana weather wasn't much better than the rest of the country. Spring and early summer was hot and dry and then came the oh too abundant rains of late summer. I did manage to get a few figs off of my 2 golden unknowns. I was hoping to suppliment that with some celeste off of a friends tree but that wasn't to be. One large tree died overwinter and the other dropped about half of its figs in the drought and the rest soured in the the heavy rains during the ripeing season. Looking forward to next year. Just thankfully we haven't seen any hurricanes yet and pray that everyone is spared this year and many more to come.