My HCs have been producing main crop since the end of August. Three trees (2nd year from cuttings)
have over a hundred main crop figs.
Figs are moderately sweet, mixed berry flavor, some seed crunch.
Trees are in ground for the season.

Looks like you are getting quite a few nice figs. You said for the season...Are you going to uproot them when it gets cold to store them?

Very nice figs

Very nice.

Don, you got it. Since  I always seems to be somewhere else, keeping the fig trees in pots and worrying about watering all season doesn't work. I find it much easier to just plant the trees and forget them until harvest. They also seem to do much better in ground than ones that I have left in pots in prior years. Come first frost I dig up the plants and bring them down the cellar and repot. In spring I reverse the process.

Nice harvest!  
I'm also in Zone 5 and haven't gotten my first figs yet (although they are ordered), and I do the same thing with my tender perennials...planting them in the ground each spring, then lifting and potting up come fall.   

 I wanted to have HC because of his hardiness ... but it's surprise me with some great taste.

A nice producer in Seattle. Great taste and meaty compared to some of the other black figs I've tasted!

Great Photos!! I love HC....Thanks for Posting!!

Pako, yes Hardy Chicago is a great tasting fig and the best part is that's it's easy to grow and gives good yields.

Ben, good to hear that it's a good producer in Seattle, especially with your relatively cool summers. Do you get both breba and main figs in Seattle

Looks like it does better in ground and when you dig it up in the fall it gets a root pruning too.  I'll have to try that next year.  I think production does drop off when the fig fills every nook and cranny with roots in the pot.