First Fig to Shuffle 2017

[newnandawg]

Its been awake for several weeks now and has some breba. This fourth year Pastillere (Baud) has yet to give me
a fig to eat. It has produced many but has dropped them all. That appears to be the history of this variety based
on all the posts and readings I can find. With the temps predicted in the 70's for the next 10 days I decided to
move it out and do the shuffle when necessary. Its just Feb 16, so we will have some cold weather, maybe. Its
been a very mild winter so far in West Central Georgia.

[ross]

It's been very mild here. I'm a bit worried. This upcomming 5 day forecast is very much like spring weather.

[BrooklynMatty]

Ohhhhh yea. Its beginning to look a lot like the shuffle time!! I'm sure we will start seeing more people with similar issues.

[Taverna78]

Baby RUTH

[BrooklynMatty]

Hey you guys!!!!!!

[Dave]

ha ha ha lmao...........................

[DBJohnson]

I keep hoping that maybe it can last through March. I know...I'm an idiot for even entertaining such a thought.

[newnandawg]

I figure by the second week in March we usually start having spring temps anyway. So I am only four weeks early

[mountainfigs]

I can't believe I shuffled a fig out today too, mid-February: Cyprus, rooted last spring. It has held these figs at this size and state since last fall. Don't recall seeing this before. Don't know that they will ripen. Don't know that I should have brought it out. Don't know what to call these figs: brebas or delayed/extended main crop.

[newnandawg]

Interesting, Tony.

[mountainfigs]

Mike, my Pastiliere tree has never produced a fig either. I intend to keep trying it though, hoping it hits an age where it can kick in to gear.

[newnandawg]

Tony, I was going to send it to the burn pile (as in Martin) but trying to wait it out. Don't know how much longer.

[ako1974]

50s-60s this weekend by me. Holding in the 40s and 50s well into next week. I expect to see skunk cabbage coming up in the brook behind my house. Which is a good sign as it provides an early source of nectar for my honeybees.

And I'm the sure the figs in my garage will continue to respond as well...

[mountainfigs]

Some of my comfrey is trying to push through mulch now. It sort of tries to push through most of winter anytime there is a slight breather above freezing, so may really go a bit now, no matter mid-February. Might get a photo of it tomorrow. Garlic chives pushed through a bit a couple weeks or more ago, amazingly.

[Fygmalion]

April 1st... Trout season opener in NY... April 15tth/17th Tax Day and by then, hopefully, we will begin to get moderating temperatures in Zone 6A NY and the fig shuffle begins in earnest....Historically, still frost dangers by me until June 10th

[mountainfigs]

A week of freezing weather predicted now, so last shuffle for awhile. Only moving a few small pots anyway. The Cyprus figs that I first set outside in daytime 3 weeks ago, having held over a few figs all winter in storage, have begun to grow again. If the weather doesn't allow for putting this little tree outside again soon, then I assume these figs will drop:

[mountainfigs]

None of these figs dropped. The upper ones swelled the most. Maybe all are still moving to ripening. Except for the bottom one which turned cherry red a few weeks ago without having swelled much. Especially the top half was a beautiful shiny dark red. Then it started to collapse, maybe dry in the bottom half so I picked it and the top third was a juicy syrupy cherry syrup flavor, very flavorful but just that upper third. A third of a syrupy ripe small fig, May 2nd. The bottom was unripe vegetable tasting. Some of the brebas on most any variety that don't ripen and begin to dry before falling are quite edible as they have a mild chewy and crunchy cucumber flavor if picked at the right time. Nothing like a fruit but can have a good raw vegetable flavor and texture.

[Fygmalion]

Yesterday I emptied half the basement of figs for the sole purpose of giving the plants exactly 30 minutes of sunshine to begin the hardening off process.... I have been shuffling about 25 pots of select figs up from basement to kitchen every day for 2 weeks now so that those pots can get extra sun exposure via the sliding doors to the patio which present a southern exposure almost all day. Those figgies are loving it and are sprouting new growth as a result. Tomorrow we are projected to get 3-6 inches of snow with temps crashing and then Tuesday they are talking about a Nor'Easter hitting the area... Guess the shuffling is good exercise....

[Courtney]

Snow is in the forecast for tomorrow☹️

[lilfiggy]

Figs are youths still in pots on lanai It never got below 40 degrees (one night) Everbody has leaves and there is one fig ripening. listening to you guys talk about snow gives me the shakes. Dimos (my yard guy) put 6 in the ground. Ah a milestone. Have come a long way from some stick cuttings in cups 2 years ago.

[don_sanders]

Snow tonight and several days of 15-20F lows in my prediction.

[zone5figger]

I brought two of my later ripening plants up from the cellar yesterday. My plants in storage are still fully dormant. Now they have window seats inside and hope they reward me with some delicacies before winter. No driveway shuffle, weat her is back in winter mode with another cold blast and maybe a nor'easter style snowstorm next week!

[Hershell]

I almost got frostbite just reading this thread.

[Fygmalion]

I love the seasonal changes up my way on the one hand but am envious of Hershell, Will, Frank and our southern tier friends who don't have constant worries about freezing weather even though the occasional bout of cold can be a real head turner...

[mountainfigs]

Yesterday, shirt sleeve weather, potted cuttings outdoors. Today, 4 inches heavy wet snow overnight, school canceled, still snowing. From sunning figs to snowstorm in hours:

[Bluemalibu]

...my Pastiliere tree has never produced a fig either. I intend to keep trying it though, hoping it hits an age where it can kick in to gear.

Tony, the tree that I received from Gary has been great with fruiting, having been started from a cutting in March and the first-year tree held onto the fruit into December. Let me know if your's continues to balk, and mine should be large enough this upcoming fall to be able to share some cuttings with you.

[mountainfigs]

Thanks so much for your generous offer. Those are some beautiful figs in your photo. I wonder though if your tree is pollinated by the wasp allowing it to fruit whereas with no wasp here no fruit? I don't know, haven't figured out this tree yet. It has a couple breba figs on it now just starting. Don't know if those might have a chance or not.

[Bluemalibu]

They very easily could have been pollinated, as we were hit with the first wave of wasps just today... but it would have been a very late pollination, as these figs pictured didn't form until August or so, due to the spring rooting of the cutting.

[newnandawg]

Curious as to the origin of yours and Gary's tree. As I stated mine is from Baud via Marius but never produced ripe fruit due to dropping. Just wondering if this is what mine should look like.