A bunch of figs are ripening now, I will post pics of them as they ripen. Most of these are 1st year fig trees, so they might not be as good as they will be in the future.  

LSU Gold 
 
MBVS and Conadria 
 
Conadria fig  
 
  MBVS 
 

Fantastic pictures.  Enjoy the harvests!

wow! delicious!

Why does your lsu gold fig look so much better then mine. Congrats on that. Must be in that Hawaii air. Grate pics.

Wow. Thats crazy. Yours look awsome.

Must be awesome to enjoy such early figs and tropical fruits too. What tropical fruits ripen around this time for you?

@binbin9:  Not to much tropical atm, right now, strawberries, black berries, raspberries and apples.  

Next up is Figo Preto.  Unfortunately this one is not completely ripe and had a crack near the eye that let the syrup/honey pour out into a pool on the ground. :(  I weighed it, but its a little lighter than it should have been, if only the crack did not let out the honey.. Oh well, it was still very good. :)  Since its closer to the size of a tennis ball than a quarter, thought I would use one for scale. :P 

 
 
 

That's off the hook,a mutant Preto on the loose.Do the others still hanging look like they're going to size
up that large?

These pretos must be on steroids. Nice pictures.

wow...pots? what size?
please post your soil, watering routine, and fertilizer....

@tyro: I don't think the rest will be this size, they look like they will be bigger...

I am growing it in a 20 gal pot. Soil mix is 1/1/1 promix bx, coco coir and #4 perlite. Water none for the last 10 days. I wanted to concentrate the sugars. Usually 1 gallon a day.

Fertilizer, dolomite lime, azomite 1 half teaspoon each every 2 weeks.
Also nitrogen and phosphorous, but no potassium. I think it was 10-0-20. Same half teaspoon every 2 weeks.

I will let your preto trees fruit and do a side by side comparison of the fruits. Under as close to identical growing conditions as I can. If they are much smaller than these, I will look into whether it could be a sport mutation, or possibly a mislabeled cutting.

The fruit size on this tree so far is 80-99 grams. I have 40 more figs left on the tree. The tree was started as a 2 node cutting received on 7/4/15 it rooted in September 2015.

Thank you for posting. I never thought that these preto figs could get this large. Are these getting rain water on top of your one gallon per day?

This fig is under a covered area of my greenhouse. Since the fruits started ripening the tree stopped putting on new growth. I'm trying to be very carful not to over water. It only needs a small amount of water to ripen the figs. I will start watering again, just 1 cup per day, to keep the leaves from drooping.

You are so lucky to have ripe figs already. 
Here the season won't start until 4-6 weeks for my potted figs and September for In ground.

Your figs look so good and great sizes!   How did they taste?

Figo Preto taste like concentrated strawberry jam, with tropical fruit notes.  I tasted soft, chewy, semi-dried banana and creamy, smooth mango flavors.  Here are a few pictures of ones that I got after restricting all water for the last 2 weeks.  Plus my 1st Grise Olivette fig.

 
 
    

Looks meaty and yummy with the deep red pulp and honey. Do they still maintain their large size?

A few more varieties ripening. 

Sal's/EL:   Sweet berry fig, sweeter than MBVS, but also less sharp/tart berry flavor. 
 

LSU Golden Celeste:  A unexpectedly giant fig, all twenty have been 80+ grams.  Sweet fig, drips honey when ripe.  
 

My largest LSU gold, most were between 60-80 grams. 
 

LSU Hollier: The best tasting fig after Figo Preto.  Very ugly green fig, red interior, gap in center filled with syrup. Has lots of brown sugar spots and honey dripping out of the eye, as well as any skin cracks.  Strong berry flavor with lots of complexity. 
 

Possibly a Hollier breba
 

Wuhan: A slow growing heavy producing fig tree.  Interesting serrated leaves, bright yellow interior, purple exterior, seedless figs.  Produces large main crop and breba crop.  Brebas are larger and contain seeds.  Both tasted the same otherwise.  Mildly sweet, no complexity.  Would only recommend for the collectors, not the connoisseurs.

   

Wow nice pics, thanks for sharing I hope that you enjoyed your harvest dinner!

Some good looking figs there Sid, thanks for sharing.

LSU Hollier rating after Figo Preto is a surprise, but if it tastes like that ugliness is a small thing. Thanks for the update.

Nice photo's Sid.Looks like the fruit is coming in much larger there as opposed to the mainland.
Most of my Preto's are coming in at 37-45 grams.

@figinfever:  I was surprised as well, in a good way.  I think there are 2 varieties sold as LSU Hollier,  one looks just like Italian Honey.

https://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/JFE/olympus-digital-camera-46/

https://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/JFE/product/hollier-fig/

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1285415307&postcount=7&forum=0

Then the other one from the Fig4Fun database.  The one I have, long neck, red interior.  

http://figs4fun.com/fpix/FP998-65.jpg

A picture of LSU gold (left), two "Ugly" Holliers (center), LSU golden Celeste (Right). 

 


@tyro:  I can't get any anywhere near that small, even restricting water.  Here is a picture of the two smallest so far, 61 and 63 grams.  They are on my hand for scale, i'm 6'3, so above average hand size.  

 

Interior Shot of a Preto, 80 grams. 

 
The hardest part is leaving them on the tree long enough to be perfectly ripe. 

Simply Gorgeous!!!!!!  Well done, figgysid1, well done! 

I don't think the large figs are mutations. Figs are big across cultivars. It is likely the growing condition and your care of them that makes them fruit that size. If the flavor remains high, I for one would love to have the problem of giant figs. : ) Congratulations.