Smith Main 2021

[MJFIGS]

The ugliest most delicious fig in my collection.

The nicest thing about it, is no one in my family or visiting us picks these, so I get to enjoy them all by myself 😁

I dont want hype this and its fairly available, but this is a must have. Delicious and split resistant and unique ( Ugly) fig.

[Ktrain]

How old?

Mine is a no go this year, but it is on it's 1st year....good growth...no fruits.

[Ktrain]

Well nothing wrong with figs every where....lol

I hope mine does that well next year!

[cvarcher]

ha ha --hint hint---- but then I neglected it and figs start setting fruit

[JMF75]

Yes mine too. I thought it was just my tree. It has grown thick and strong but no evidence of double bumps.

[doubleblue]

Looks great, Michael!
I hope my Smith will set the main crop soon.

[Forrest]

Maybe ugly but I bet it’s delicious

[cvarcher]

My 2 Smiths are in year 3 and 4 with no figs yet! YEs,its from a reliable source.

[claret]

Bummer! Maybe they feel homesick. Play some Cajun music for them? Zydeco?

[MJFIGS]

My 4 year old Smith ( mother tree), have 0 figs too, I pruned it really hard last year, and all its doing now is just getting taller.

[Vitooch1]

Play some mariachi music it’s faster pace music and tell it to wake up!!! Lol 😂 but 3 years Geesh!! I guess the patients has to kick in.

[cvarcher]

I think homesick music would be more Montenegro orchestra--ha ha ..

[Vitooch1]

Very nice 👍 hope you eat lots. I was fortunate to have one this year and it was amazing.

[Bellefleurs]

I suppose the sugar spots are what make Smith figs unattractive. Mine don’t last on the tree long enough to look like yours and a few of mine were pretty!
Quite honestly, the most “unfortunate looking@ figs I’ve ever seen are Alma.
My children call them gross 😂

[DrDraconian]

Smith is actually a beautiful looking fig in a dry climate. It doesn't get the brown "sugar" spots on it at all. A green fig with a purple haze, and wonderful bull's eye pattern of cracking on it when ripe, often with a drop of honey in the eye.

[Bellefleurs]

Richard, it’s horribly hot and humid here but last year when my Smith fruited it was exactly as you described. Green with a beautiful purple haze. At first I worried that I had the wrong tree because the figs were so pretty.

[great08]

Noted. Thanks!

[Otis]

I don't find sugar spots ugly at all since I know what's going on inside 🤣

[great08]

I will be the same. Seeing sugar spots will get me excited... not disappointed. Unless, the fig is spoiled or something. lol

[Otis]

These 2nd year Smith fruits are better than all we got last year.

[Forbiddenfruit.garden]

Nice! Gotta leave them till their dripping

[Otis]

Yes, it's taken me 2 seasons to learn not to pick them till they start to shrivel a bit. I'm also finding that if you have some self control (which come and goes with me 😜), a day or so on the counter does them more good than harm.