That's a nice little oasis you have there in the city.  Two extremes only feet apart.  Concrete jungle on one side and paradise on the other.

My Madeira don't even have figlets yet this year.  They have new growth but it looks like not even a chance of hope for a fig. 

Are green figs safer from birds than black figs?  Has anyone noticed a difference?  I see that beall is very redish and would think that it is a bulls eye for birds.  I have grapes this year and the birds are not touching them yet, still green and hard.  As soon as my blueberries turned blue the birds tried to get them.  I'm hoping to have some redhaven peaches this year.  They have a very red blush to them and the bluejays attached them last year. 

Hi Martin, Yes it is from a UCD cutting I started last year.  I thought I had done my homework before ordering last year and was surprised to later see there was some controversy about this variety.  Hopefully the fig gods will look favorably on us humble fig growers and reward us.

That has to be the most productive tree I have seen a picture of.  There is a fig at every leaf node.  Is that in a pot?  I did notice on my tree that the FMV did not seem to show up in the skin of the fig at all.

I remember a B scifi movie where this guy had another head growing from his shoulder and I think it ended up being his evil twin.  I wouldn't eat that one you never know.  Keep an eye on your right shoulder.  Actually I think thats how it starts with an eye on you right shoulder.

The cooking shows are always showing the reduction of a balsamic vinegar over strawberries so I tried it once.  I prefer just sugar on it with those little sponge cakes.  I probably need to buy an expensive balsamic vinegar to try it again. 

I like the labeled figs pic.  It would be nice to have a poster, sort of like a family tree if the figs are related with pictures and labels for quick reference to hang on the wall.  I know there are a lot of figs but there seem to be about maybe 20 or so figs that are always being talked about.

I'm going to start potting more of my figs in the square pots.  I think they are a little more stable.  I was thinking of having some rebar with a hook at the end to push into the ground next to each pot and hooked onto the lip to keep it upright.

I was hoping to keep it on another day or two but noticed that the skin had rubbed off from rubbing up against the branch because of the high wind gusts we've been having lately during this heat wave.  I've been having to constantly pick up my fig trees from these periodic freak gusts as if a storm is approaching.

I purchased this from gorgi in August of 2009.  I think it dropped all its figs last summer but there were only 1 or 2 anyway if I remember correctly.

Almost confused this with my Ischia Black.  I should have known it would not be doing this good.  I recently started adding the metal labels because my other plastic ones are always fading.  It has around 50 figs on it.  Should I remove all the smaller ones?

Robbins are eating my blueberries so I'm building some more frames to hang the bird netting on.  My three year old grapevines are loaded with grapes this year too.  I'll need to cover them soon.  I took out a chipmunk today with my airmaster 77 bb gun.  Home depot had a new rat trap made of plastic thats like a foot pedal.  You use your foot to set it and no chance of getting your fingers caught.  I cut down my cherry trees.  Didn't get one cherry.  There was some kind of end rot and the birds and chipmunk got the rest.  They're too much work.  You have to prune them just right to get cherries.  I have redhaven peaches and golden delicious apples to replace them.

Nice looking fig.  I just realized I like the square pots too.  I have all of mine in the large round Home Depot pots like yours on the left.  I bet the square ones are more stable for tall figs in high wind and easier to keep stable on the two wheel hand cart when moving.

I used PVC pipe also last year to lay the net over it.  I didn't even have to glue it so you can dissassemble it if you need to.  I have it over one of my raised beds for blueberries.  I had it tie wrapped to the frame but something just tore right through it last year.  I think it was a racoon or skunk so I was thinking of replacing the net with rigid wire, maybe a chicken wire.

Hi had a friend at work that had an orange he had just forgotten about in his desk draw become hard as a baseball.  It just became a novelty to show people at work.  Who knew it was probably still edible.  I've been looking for an excuse get a satsuma.  I would like to try drying figs too.

Good to know.  I have a meyers lemon locally bought and a small meiwa kumquat from ediblelandscaping which is about 15in high bought late last year.

  The headlines coming out of Europe about the new strain of E Coli are a little scary.  It use to be most people knew what it took to successfully grow something to eat.  Now we just expect risk free products from the grocery store.  There was a Headline this week making a big deal of Mark Zukerberg vowing to only eat meat that he has personally killed.  It wasn't long ago that that was the norm.  I personally, only eat figs that I have hunted with my bare hands.   

It was the same here today.  I noticed the new growth drooping and the soil was wet from the rain yesterday.  At one point last night humidity actually went up before the cold front came thru.  It was 91% late yesterday and today it is 51% very windy and it just dried out the pots and just sapped the moisture out of the fig leaves.  I did notice figlets starting to appear on the HC and Marseilles vs blk.

I think before I even bought the first fig from willisorchard I was thinking, it would be interesting to grow an olive tree.  After reading up on them they seem to be more of a challenge than growing citrus in the Northeast.  I honestly thought olives were edible off of the tree.  I recently was reading somewhere?, maybe gardenweb? that the olives won't set right above 50 degrees but will be damaged at 32 if I remember correctly.  Anyways you need just the right temp when it has fruited.  Still is an interesting tree.  Oh and I guess the fallen olives can really stain cement or pavement.  Then comes the processing part which is pretty intense.  Oh and who knew they don't grow with the pimento already inside them.  I'll still probably by one. Who am I kidding.

Oh yeah,  The memories of last years figs are coming back.  I forgot why I'm putting all this energy into growing figs after a long winter.  But now they're coming back.  That looks real good. 

I think the picture looks like a tyty image with that strange purple hue you get from a can of spray paint?

I forgot about this, I love marinated artichoke hearts and I opened a jar of a major brand and thought they tasted funny, sort of like rubber.  On closer inspection I found two latex glove fingers in the jar.  I should have sent them in to the customer relations department but I left them in a cup and by the time a thought about it they had dryed up into something unrecognizable.  Maybe I could have received a couple of free cases or a  life time supply?  I hope what little I did eat were artichokes?

This is awkward, I just posted a story about china's exploding watermelons. When I started typing this post wasn't started yet. Welcome to this forum.

Years ago I was watching an episode of This Old House and there was a side story about a local guy selling fig trees.  I think they were in New York or Conneticut. Anyway it caught my attention and they were all in barrels and there was a thick layer of lime dressing on top of each barrel.  I mean that eash barrel was solid white on top from all the lime.  I've never caught a repeat of that episode since, but I clearly remember it.  Its funny, before there was climate change in the late 70's and 80's all you would hear was stories about acid rain here in the Northeast and all the lakes dying.  Now I never hear any mention of acid rain.  I guess it fell out of favor.