Hello,
I am curious as to how warm the weather has to be so figs can ripen I have my Chicago hardy figs for over a little over year put it in the ground last year about may.
have over 20 figs this year there are green and big as a ping pong ball or a bit smaller. I read that they plump up the last 5 days before they are ready. just read here that the tempurture can effect them also. its been about mid 70 - low 90 here in nj so far. very mild summer.
thank you
Stephen

Hello,
I am curious as to how warm the weather has to be so figs can ripen I have my Chicago hardy figs for over a little over year put it in the ground last year about may.
have over 20 figs this year there are green and big as a ping pong ball or a bit smaller. I read that they plump up the last 5 days before they are ready. just read here that the tempurture can effect them also. its been about mid 70 - low 90 here in nj so far. very mild summer.
thank you
Stephen

90F should do it....fig trees take time to mature. One thing most of us here take notice of: as the tree matures, it bears earlier, up to a certian point. So a later ripening on a young fig is to be expected...

Love the necropost BTW...I have 2 HC inground, but they are young so I pinch those figs...I hope your HC ripen nice for you.

MY HC starts to ripen between 9/1 and 9/15. Last year I ate every fig on the tree.

Thanks,
how long do the figs go on growing with these HC?
thanks again
Stephen
zone 7A New Jersey

I have two hardy Chicago in containers that I garage each winter. One is loaded with figs and the other did not have as many, and about half have dropped.
They are just starting to engage in size. None are ripe yet. I am going to put the low producer in the ground on the south side of the house and see how it fares the northern Indiana winters. I will give it some cover. The producer will go back in the garage about November.

Thanks were are you located Fong? what zone.
Stephen
zone7a nj

I am EJ Nifong. I am in zone 5 b, Elkhart, IN
You are about 2 growing zones warmer.
The figs are just starting to swell up. I. may have a bumper criop on one of the trees. They have 3 inch trunks and are a little over 3 feet tall and at least as wide.