@Naeem …
I have never tried chia jam with no sugar… we are very happy with 4 tablespoons of maple syrup in ours… that is to 2.5 cups fruit.
Nice ripe figs are so sweet you might try less. Sometimes we use coconut palm sugar… or you can use honey… but need to wait until it cools to just warm to add it.
YouTube vid below shows how.
We ate 6 figs for desert tonight… so good.
Good luck.
Biggest single picking since I started growing figs. Mostly from in-ground Mt. Etna-types, about 1/3 of them from Hardy Chicago. They’ve been very good this year.
September figs usually start getting some issues here with unattractive and sometimes bad-tasting (think old, moldy leaves) fungal infection of their skins (and occasionally interiors, when the pathogen enters at the ostioles). I suspect penicillium or something like it, because you sometimes observe greenish sporulation on infected fig skins when it’s really wet out. This year, however, they are remaining mostly clean and the skins very palatable. Could be weather or happenstance, or it could be my weekly spray, which is a tank mix of potassium bicarbonate + bacillus amyloliquefaciens + spinosad. (The spinosad is for the SWDs, which became apparent in late August, when I observed them really partying on some later-ripening elderberries, which they wrecked, and also on poke weed berries; have, so far, lost a few figs to SWD, but not too many. I’ve also seen African fig flies in recent days.) Anyway, I hope it’s working.
Precious little luck with potted figs this year. Every time they start to ripen, here comes the rain. And Beer’s Black, my favorite potted fig to date, is a horrible splitter. Have had some big ones ripening on Longue d’Aout, too—the first time I’ve had any ripen in a timely manner, though I’ve had LdA for going on four years now—guess it’s not precocious!—but the rain popped and soured them every time but one, and I took that one a little early to beat the rain. It was decent, but not as good as an Etna fig. Did ripen a couple of pretty good Yellow Long Neck figs, but the plant is not productive at all—and seems to want to drop figs after the least little water stress. Also, the really big figs seem to take forever to ripen—in this climate, anyway; and the longer they hang there, the greater the chance of something happening to them. Might switch out YLN with something like LSU Champagne, because I would like to have a honey fig around.
I ripened one fig on my topkilled in-ground Ronde de Bordeaux about one week ago. Not too bad, timewise, for a winter topkill, but I could’ve done with more than one. I really don’t care for just ripe RdBs, but I kind of like them on those rare occasions when the weather cooperates and they remain unsplit and turn wrinkly ripe. The skin loses most of its greenish note then, and there’s a kind of subtle spiciness somewhere in the flavor that reminds me a little of sweet glazed beets. Really. Will try to bend this one to the earth and thoroughly cover it this winter.
My 3 yr old… in ground Chicago Hardy fig now has 4 shoots over 10 ft tall. The other 6 are not far behind. Last year we got figs until Dec 3 (first hard frost)…
If our first hard frost is that late again this year… I will have to use my step ladder to harvest.
Those look great!
Do you grow any of the Adriatic types in ground there and if you do when do they ripen. I have a lovely JH Adriatic and a similar unknown in pots that I’m really enjoying and would love to plant them out to get big and give me a bumper crop each year, but I’m worried they might not ripen early enough.
Yes, the AJH that I protected just started ripening, only about a week after the ones in containers. But they aren’t very cold hardy, and because they are so vigorous it can be hard to protect for consecutive years without heavy pruning.
Chicago Hardy Fig VS Celestial Fig PNW Gardening
9/5/2021
The Celestial is supposed to be earlier than the Chicago Hardy by a month but here they both are ripe to compare.
Chicago Hardy Fig ripen in fall for PNW
medium size fruit
sweet with a hint of berry acid
thin smooth skin
dark purple color fig
very productive
ratings 8/10
Celestial Fig
medium size fruit
very sweet no acid
thin rough skin ribbing texture
brown color fig
not as productive
dries well on the tree
ratings 7/10
today’s winner Chicago Hardy Fig!
Are they all that red inside? My Negretta is more amber colored.
I agree with you 100% , last and past year it was amber color but strange thing this year shown red color on three figs I ate rest I did not pay any attention. One of my red fig showed no color just like honey fig. Asked some friends they said it can happen rarely.
Craven’s craving one of the top tier fig considered to be same quality as Black Madeira or Figo Preto but early. I should have leave it one more day but still pretty good 
. My plant is very small second year rooted cutting not lot of growth but 25+ figs in three gallons pot.
What you guys think of the Atreano type figs? Or this is Lyndhurst White? The figs are so heavy on first year that they dropped. Wish they could have hanged on a little longer. Taste is sweet. The White Marseilles is probably sweeter, not sure it is the ripening time or not.
That CC fig looks like it is going to fig itself to death. Wow!
That look like Lyndhurst White to me.
I agree, it has way more figs then leaves.
My friend in Maryland has this Greek purple fig. Looks great. Just wonder what this could be. It is medium size about 40 grams.
It is very hard to tell , you can try matching leaves and inside, outside color with in fig data base .
@Naeem You live so close to me, and have a paradise of a garden with fruits, have you seen any of these new pests? Several months ago when I went to York, Pennsylvania I saw a large number of them. I was forwarded the attached poster by a friendly user of this forum, suggesting that the state is aware of their intrusion into Maryland
@Naeem, @kakasamo i found the full link. Maryland’s Most Wanted: Join the Hunt for the Spotted Lanternfly
I hope this means it’s just up in Harford and Cecil right now (boarding PA). Hopefully they are just warning that it’s coming and monitoring.
