No- it can girdle a tree; don’t ask how I know.
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not sure which is which from which plants as my partner picked them. all were delicious
on the right is a store bought fig, much bigger, tastes like styrofoam.
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LOL – I saw the picture and was about to write “That’s not ripe!!!”
Yours look great.
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Here’s another one of my mystery figs. The stems are 1” long. Not sure what it is, so not sure if it will have time to ripen this season. It was supposed to be a Bourjassotte Grise. Cuttings didn’t root easily, only one of five made it. I’ve read that BG is supposed to have purple terminal buds and 3 and 5 lobes leafs. I have all green buds and all 5 lobes leafs. The middle lobe is asymmetrical with a bump on either side, about the only abnormal trait I can see. Ostiole is red/pink. I’ve tried contacting the seller, no luck.
Any ideas?
Edit: Did some digging and right now, my best guess is Flanders/KTJ.
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The Birds! The Birds! are eating all the figs before they get fully ripe 
. Next season I I’ll be bird netting and spraying for rust after a large amount of pruning.
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black Bethlehem, vdb, and “Michelle’s fig” (probably a desert King or the like, a branch i rooted from a friend’s tree)
the vdb and white genoa are finally ripe, the rest are finishing for the year. these are the last Michelle and BB. bb get VERY dark and the inside is jam, juicy and dark red. they’re small but really good. I’ll be repotting it this year and cutting it back some for shape, will try again to root the sticks. i want to trial it outdoors in a warm corner.
my outdoor plants both produced a few ripe figs, they did not put on much new growth at all but also showed very little winter damage. CH and florea were the two i put out in ground along my south facing wall, near a basement window casing.
i may plant another of each up against the greenhouse between it and the tall raised bed. testing the limits of outdoor planting with minimal protection (just threw a pile of pine straw on top of the base of each tree)
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Does anyone know differences between longue d’aout or Constantine de Algere? They seem to be pretty similar looking and taste wise from what I’ve read. I’d love whichever one is earlier so hoping someone can chime in
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These dont look similar to me. Cda looks similar to yellow long neck though. Lda is a red fleshed berry fig and cda is yellow fleshed and honey. Different shapes too
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Sorry you’re right, I meant yellow long neck as well. I’m open to opinions on any of the 3 though
Basically just after an early “big” fig
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beautiful!
Getting into the 40s here.
I think I’m going to try to take green cuttings of my in-ground presumed chicago hardy and my potted teramo unknown as backups ahead of my first winter. Any advice from anyone would be welcome.
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I thought my Chicago hardy might be able to ripen this year (after a late start). However, a sudden drop into fall weather has me a worried that cold weather is going to win the figs vs winter race.
I think I’m a couple weeks away from ripening and predicted highs are mostly in the low 70s (though today’s high was 56!)… so I’m less optimistic.
Here is the tree 5 days ago (I think this it is about 50 days after the figs appeared- but i wasn’t looking every day- I’m probably around day 55 now):
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I’m debating trying to move my potted teramo unk I got from @jrd51 to my basement this year under ample artificial light.
It would have to be under light because my basement ranges from 45F-65F from October-April, so not dormancy.
I’ve seen a lot of stuff about how to prepare for winter otherwise, but not with this.
Any suggestions/thoughts/drawbacks/benefits?
(I’d have to make sure I can actually fit the beautiful branches @jrd51 created into my basement door, which is a normal sized door, not a bulkhead).
My backup is bringing it to my folks’ place after it goes dormant and putting it in their outdoor shed, which would probably be fine based on prior convos, but I can’t keep as close an eye on it.
I also want to take some cuttings from both before the winter as backup. My in-ground chicago hardy has a ton of new green growth (perhaps too much), so I think I can just follow instructions for rooting in water. The teramo barely has any new green growth though — it’s almost like the new wood has already lignified/barely came out. So not sure how to propagate that.
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St Rita
2nd year tree, first year in ground.
I put three trees in the ground this spring and this one is by far the happiest, which is strange because it probably gets less sun exposure than the others. It’s on the northeast corner of my house.
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The open centre pruning point is interesting because I had the same situation with Smith in a cooler climate, where you really do need to maximise light penetration or you just get nothing. It seems like a lot of the variance in people’s Smith results comes down to that more than climate.
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Picked a few Chicago hardy figs from my in-ground tree.
The earlier ones I picked all had a very distinct watermelon flavor, now these ones all taste very peachy. Very good tasting fruit.
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Those are lighter in color than I expected! Are figs like peaches that need light to color up?
How did you decide they were ready?
On green figs, I’ve been poking the neck with a finger to see if it’s soft - but I’m not sure this is the right measure.
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They had a darker blush side not facing the camera, but yeah, the lighter ones were all in deep shade.
I just feel them daily as soon as they swell up and once they turn extra soft I pick them. Also when ants start getting at them
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