Had a couple of Nero 600m,and Longue D'out,ripe,and  they tasted just as delicious as the ones we had from the start this year. Like all others except Malta Black,trees in ground died to soil line and grew back

No pixies,this time

Today after the rain,I harvested these Adriatic JH fruits.
Even with the rain,still delicious taste.

This thread has been very informative, thanks again for sharing.

From your posts I've gathered that Nero 600m, LdA, Adriatic JH, RdB, Improved Celeste, MvsB, St Anthony, and Takoma Violet all fruited and ripened from ground kill (assuming mature, healthy plants). I didn't see if it was specified, but did Dalmatie, Ischia Black, CddG, and Battaglia also fruit from ground kill? Are there any others you have had success with after last winter?

This is great information to have.

Yes Dalmatie Col de Dame Battaglia,Ischia Black,all started from soil line and all started ripening fruits,at this point Longue D,Out too but I have a hard time getting the fruits because the squirrels are very hungry this year and are going under the net taking more than half of the harvest.
They are going at the soil line push out the net and getting inside stealing the ripe fruits.
They manage to get out too, but yesterday I had one inside ,a very large one,and I raised the net and let it go!!!!.
I figured out that the only way to win against the squirrels is to install nets on my best tasting figs and ,leave open the average tasting cultivars for them to feed on.
This will only work if I have large trees that have hundreds of fruits,so they have constant feed.
Yet this year the fig trees died to soil line and they produced a small number of fruits each,not enough to keep them busy and leave my under nets plants alone.
Note:I did not pinch my trees this Year because I was out of the country for 2 month so that is another reason,they have a small number of fruits each.
I am sure if I pinched it as I should I could have a much better harvest now.

Here are pixies of Longue D'Out,taken now:
I just had a ripe one I wanted to take out today,and is gone,to the squirrel.
You can see the peduncle cut off by the creature in one of the pixies:
Note:See Peduncle ,left,on third pix!
Edit note again:I had 2 Negretta,first ripe fruits on new tree,both got stolen by the same creatures(had net over) this Morning!

Great, thanks!

I'd suggest getting a cat or two. We have a pair of strays in the neighborhood and I only ever see 1 or 2 squirrels despite there being loads of nut trees in the surrounding yards.

I have to look into getting an LdA now...I had one earlier in the week at another forum member's house. Delicious and hardy, definitely has my interest!

Man those look delicious on that cutting board, had to stop my self from drooling.

 I also appreciate the information that all those varieties will still fruit after dying to the ground, very good to know, Thanks. 

I agree with Kelby about getting a couple of cats. Unfortunatly a nearby tree will make it possible for squirrels to steal figs and escape safely. We have cats and lots of hawks with enough open ground that they don't chance it. I do see them at the woods line though.

Mike in Hanover, VA

Great to hear that your col de dama can die to the soil and still produce a few figs, I have put blanc in the ground as well as noir, noir died to a few inches but didn't put our figs early enough to ripen, but gives me hope for coming years.

I had heard that the birds (and extrapolating, the SQUIRRELS!) were less attracted to the green figs. I have learned first hand that this is a wrongheaded notion.

But how do the squirrels know? Can they smell the figs?

dogs keep squirrels away, they were eying my figs dogs chased them out of the nieghbours yards too.

Thanks for the info Greenfig. That dastardly tree rat smelled a Black Madeira the minute it started to ripen! But then I spritzed around with the Plantskydd. Magic! The one tree I didn't treat (Owensboro) got raided, one foot away from the ripening Madeiras, Rockaway Green and VdB. And Black Zadar. So far so good, but who knows if he cleaned me out by now (I'm not at home).

WOW!! Herman those are Beautiful, but that Adriatic's red center is Gorgeous! Can't wait until next year for mine! Thanks for posting all those Beauties..:)

Here are more figs harvested today and a better look at Longue D'Out,now that is ripe.
Same delicious taste on all.
They are in order:
Improved Celeste
Ischia Black
Adriatic JH
Longue D'out

Herman, is the first plate mostly Improved Celeste?

First Plate= All Improved Celeste

I have another question for you Herman, hopefully not too off topic (I can start a new thread if you wish).

Do you think the varieties that have died back and fruited successfully can do this repeatedly (every year), never requiring winter protection (once established, of course)? Or would this be detrimental to the long term health/productivity of the plant?

Thanks!

Kelby:
First,I do not have experience ,to answer your question.
Second:If the Summer would have been like 2012 Summer(cold rainy ),most trees that got ripe this year ,would have not.
Summer 2014 was satisfactory,warm,and dry,here in Central,and south Jersey,with normal precipitations,and sunny days.
It was not an ideal,long hot, Summer,but ,otherwise satisfactory.

That makes sense on all accounts. Thanks for the information, I really do appreciate it. You're posts have given me a lot of great info for starting out my collection.

I also had other cultivars ripe such as,Nero 600m,Marseilles black vs,Gino,Violette de Bordeaux,but ,did not have a chance to take pix because Squierrels stole fruits one day before me.
The only cultivars that did not ripe yet are the Madeira black type,as Preto,and Italian 258.
Italian 258 is close to ripe,and is one and a half larger fruits compare to Madeira ,otherwise,similar in many ways.

My Black Madiera is also not ripening, mine is in pot though, the inside have changed colour but they are not swelling so I think that I miss these figs this year, same with Panachee, just not enough heat units.

The three cultivars,i started this topic about performed as such.
Malta black finished ripening OCt 1.
Improved Celeste produced ripe fruits up to Nov 1.
Ronde De Bordeaux,produced ripe fruits up to Nov 10,and it has more ,half ripe now.
I had a super delicious fruit of Vasilika Syka this Morning,super dark inside.
I was harvesting a couple of Adriatic JH every day and more are coming.
Italian 258,had one ripe fruit yesterday,and it has one more to go and it was ripening all of them to the last.
Tacoma Violet got ripe all of them ,last one November 15.
Mount Etna Type fifs (ALL),were late to grow from winter kill and got ripe fruits but late,and only a third of the harvest.
So here you have it,if you know an exotic exquisite cultivar,that is not mentioned here,it means it was growing back from roots late,and it did not ripe till this point and there is a good reason:
The Winter in 2013 was very cold and retarded many otherwise superior cultivars.
2014 Summer season here in my locale was not ideal for fig trees,with cold Spring cool Summer and Cold Autumn nights starting September 1.
All in all, the cultivars that got ripe this year,here,deserve praise ,and  the ones that did not deserve understanding and even better care this coming Winter.
All my figs are in ground with about 8 hours of Sun during Summer and less than that late in the Fall when the Earth tilt ,and this is not enough for late ripening cultivars.
Edit Note:I am writing this from top of my head so I missed, Col de Dame Grise, Dalmatie,Atreano,Saint Anthony,Nero 600M,Ischia Black,Longue D'Aout,Violette de Bordeaux,etc.
All these produced a small harvest(under 15 fruits),ripe ,only good enough, after being killed to ground by 2013 Winter!

Thank you for the update, great information.

Vasile, is the Vasilika Sika you mentioned the Dalmatie-type or the fig that is called Vasilika Sika in Greece (i.e. the true one)? 

What is your experience with how unprotected in-ground figs do when the weather in the Fall goes from relatively mild to lows of around 19-23 deg. F in a short period of time like we have had?  Thanks!