Figs

[Childhoodnostalgia]

Anyone else got a bumper crop this year? I’ve got a 10 year old fig in a pot which is growing the most amazing fruit.

It normally produces hard bullets that never ripen and fall off the following year. Last year was the first year that they actually ripened due to the intense long summer, so I’m surprised with July being such a washout that it’s doing the same again this year.

Excuse half eaten fig pic - couldnt hold off!

Mine’s looking OK but in Yorkshire we’re still a few weeks from picking.

Hopfully yours will continue to crop reliably now it’s got the hang of it.

They do look beautiful inside, don’t they?

My plant has grown exponentially this year but no fruit

Mine has lots of fruit, but I fear that they will not ripen because of this dismal summer.😔

We lost the first crop in May because it was too dry. The second crop came good last year so I'm hopeful, but we need August to be warm.

Mine, 7 years in the soil, has loads of fruit, still quite hard.

This has made me smile OP because my Granny grew figs and sometimes spent YEARS waiting for a good crop. I will never forget the times she had a bumper haul, and how happy she was about it!

So good to hear from fellow fig growers 😊.

I’m in the south east and the garden is an absolute sun trap so even with the cooler temps recently, I guess it had a good start.

Thats lovely @headcheffer and made me smile too reading about your Granny.

I feel very lucky that I’m the only one in the family that like figs- more for me!

Plenty of time yet. My main picking is September.

I’ll probably regret saying this, but I’ve got used to a reliable crop of 200 figs every year. Yorkshire, 400ft above sea level, so not a particularly warm part of the country.

Ours is massive and overproducing this year too, which is deeply unfortunate as I can’t get past them being carnivorous so I don’t eat them!

You’ve nothing to worry about in the UK, we don’t get the fig wasp. So I can guarantee that if you’re in the UK, your fig is not “carnivorous”.

i’m not sure whether benefitting from the remains of your pollinator qualifies you as a carnivore.