Record Ripening Success!

[Michael]

Okay. Some of you might say big deal, but I picked 20 varieties today! Anywhere from one to eight figs per variety. That's about four times as many as any other day in my fig growing career so far.

Now, my trees are mostly two years old. Interestingly enough, I have 25 trees in ground, and most of them spent most of their energy this year growing, and not fruiting. Of the 20 varieties, about 16 were from six gallon pots. I would have had a few more varieties if it wasn't for ants.

I have a neighbor who put a few in the ground about five years ago, and is now getting HUNDREDS of figs per tree. Hopefully mine will follow suit.

[RosyPosy]

Nice! That’s way more than me this year

[FigFiend]

That's awesome.. anyone who says big deal to that is probably a joyless SOB lol

[Otis]

Nice. A day like that would get my dehydrator humming

[RandyK]

Nice! Wow. I can’t even imagine.

[Ktrain]

You must resist the temptation to eat them all!

[Michael]

I ate about half of them yesterday. It's the first chance to try some of them, and I'm building a spreadsheet of fig characteristics for my trees to help me eventually cull the herd.