I can't fig-ure this out.

[jackb]

The brown turkey fig trees have several figs that MAY be ripe. Does this look like it is ripe? If not, how can I tell when it is? I don't want to waste one to find out.
jackb

 

[aftermidnight]

I don't grow figs myself but I think I've heard when figs are ripe they will hang down, yours has a way to go yet if this is true.
Annette

 

[Nyboy]

Nope much darker, Mine get a deep purple yours at least a week to ripe

 

[Nyboy]

I just ate a ripe one yesterday, you have time.

 

[jackb]

I just ate a ripe one yesterday, you have time.

Thanks, these will be my first; the tree has had fruit before, but they dropped off before getting ripe. I recently met a grower in Bennington, VT who told me the tree would not produce a fig until it was four years old, so I have been expecting these to fall off. That said, they are larger and the skin looks far different than the first figs.

 

[Nyboy]

Wait till you taste your first RIPE fig

 

[baymule]

Good for you! Figs are so good. Here, they grow from a cutting stuck in the ground. I guess they are harder to grow in N.Y.

 

[jackb]

Good for you! Figs are so good. Here, they grow from a cutting stuck in the ground. I guess they are harder to grow in N.Y.

The guy I spoke to in Bennington was selling trees at the garlic fest. He was charging sixty five dollars each for trees little more than a foot tall. Also, I have seen them for sale at close to that price at other places. I just gave one to a friend who is moving to Florida, as I am running out of space. Somewhere I had read that figs are easy to propagate, but as I have more than enough I don't want to try propagating them.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i'd like to get a cutting or two sometime but need to have my projects done so i have a place to put them.

@jackb it's looking good! hope you get to try it soon!

 

[Nyboy]

Bay problem is border line hardy in NY.