It can be frustrating. The biggest improvement you can make is to dehydrate them. You will probably be surprised how much it can help.
Getting them all the way ripe can be a problem, dehydrating won’t help much with them being underripe. If you can pick them at tree ripeness, where latex no longer leaks out of the stem, you can finish ripening them on the counter, with a fan pointed at them, or in the fridge. There is still latex inside the fig at tree ripe, but the enzymes will convert the starches into sugar.
Those 2 things help the most for me, and they work best in combo.
Thanks! Yep I was putting them in the sun and wishing for a dehydrator LOL
Though the rain and high humidity under the tree canopy seems to also be causing them to mold - you can taste it. Yuck.
Simth is my favorite fig and it is top tier fig. I am making more copies and please note it does not like too cold , too wet or too dry everything has to be in balance to get production out of it. Highly recommended in pots for our Zone 7A.
You are right . What I mean find an organic potting mix which contains everything like peat moss, compost , leaf mold, bark and all the good stuff etc not only peat moss.
To make the figs less watery, mix some sand in potting mix. Also withhold watering with in-ground fig during ripening season.
The native soil is more sandy and dry. This is how they grow very tasty figs in Mediterranean. Along the coasts, our soil is very rich and have plenty rainfall.
Same issue with growing grapes. We do not grow those tasty wine grapes here.
It is a Nesco dehydrator, I have 2 with extra trays. I try to dry them until they are not at all squishy, but not hard to chew, probably will be about 24 hours at 125f.
It very well is. I forgot that name too! Didn’t have any confidence on my fig grafting experience either! Panache took too and has fruited 10 or so figs.
