[quote="jadeforrest":2vn7hq8t]Oooooh, I cannot wait!
I do have three little tiny figs forming. Are they next year's?[/quote:2vn7hq8t]
Those are probably the main crop and are unlikely to ripen this year. If they haven't ripened by the time it gets rainy and cool, apparently you are supposed to remove them so they don't rot.
Last year on my mature tree about half of the main crop ripened, but we had a much hotter season also.
The early (breba) crop is born on last years wood. Tiny nubs at the leaf axils will overwinter and become the breba crop for next year.
The second (main) crop forms on new growth in the current season.
Some varieties reliably bear both, others only one.
[quote="John S":2m76p5i1]Looks great. Thanks again Jafar.
I did an experiment with my Desert king figs. I think they are just a bit too sweet, so I cut them in disks, and put a couple of drops of chile or just a tad of plain yogurt on them. Doubled my love of them. Yum!
John S
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In my limited experience I also thought Desert King was too sweet. Adding plain yogurt sounds like a great idea.
I picked five 5 gallon buckets of unripe figs off our unknown variety fig tree last year, after the leaves had fallen off. Learned my lesson from the year before, when they all eventually fell off and rotted on the grass under the tree; it was a lot easier to pick them still green than clean up the mess later on!!
Wish our tree was a bit earlier, but we've at least gotten several dozen ripe figs from it the 2 years we've had the place - probably better than the hundreds we'd have gotten if they all ripened anyway:)
Dave
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