Yes it can, esp. if it gets watered a lot or regularly.
However, in my experience, shriveled CH figs with “stretched marks” on the skin taste best. They are gooey, jammy and wonderfully sweet like what good figs should taste like.
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Ok cool thanks for the response. I like to let them go longer too but we have a lot of rain coming and birds attacking.
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I have chicago hardy in pots and in ground. Can’t do anything with in ground plant. I moved the potted plants in my garage knowing we had over 24 hours of rain.
If you ever have the opportunity, let your figs droop well before you pick them.
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Trust me I do.
Some figs from the hoop house.
Ischia Black UCD
Black Madeira UCD & LSU Purple
In ground Hative de Argentile
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Don’t know what variety this is. An Italian guy gave this potted tree to me. He said he took cuttings from his home town in Italy 50+ years ago.
The fruit is medium in size. I am not good at describing it but it was amazingly sweet with syrupy taste (in a good way) to it. I call it my Italian fig.
@SMC_zone6, @hoosierbanana want to guess?
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So many figs look similar to me. I can’t guess the name, but I’d say it looks like a winner.
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In different climates the figs of a same cultivar can look different and taste different, even as the weather changes in the same year they can look and taste different. The only way to get a good guess unless you have a cultivar with unusually unique figs and or leaves, is to grow all the similar looking cultivars on the same property, in the same amount of light, all grafted on to the same root stock is the very best way to compare.
Here are a bunch of Hardy Chicago and Malta Black I picked from my in ground trees. Some were picked earlier than I prefer but it’ll rain the next couple days, and I saw SWD among them. They’d surely be ruined if I waited any longer. I probably have 6 pounds in that basket.
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@ mamuang
I’d put it with the Mt. Etna family. Such as Malta Black, MBVS and a lot others. Bob’s “Reservoir” should be part of the Mt. Etna family too.
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I can have plump/overwatered figs on any year (and most of the time) because we usually have more rain than not. Even in this drought year, we still had a down pour last week when some figs started to ripen.
Today, it rained all day again. I moved some of my potted figs in the garage to avoid bloated figs with diluted taste. Some even turned mushy or rot.
I enjoy very ripe.figs on a less watered side as they have more intense flavor. I do not always have a dry condition for such a treat. Watered figs, get that too often.
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I get you there. I haven’t been growing them long enough clearly as I’m sure I’ll have a similar experience with all of mine being in ground
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It’s tricky to get figs at the right stage of ripeness since I don’t live at my orchard. But RLBV was great over the weekend. Nerino was very good too.
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Glad to see your figs did so well.
Mine started to suffer from too much rain these past 10days. I had to move some pots, esp Smith, in the garage.
Last year, Smith was all ruined by rain at the ripening time.
There are always lots that don’t do so well. I can take the pictures to prove it 
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How do you rate them compared to I-258 and Bourjasotte Grise?