Any Fig Fanatics?

[Shawn T. W.]

Checked on my one fig "bush" ... It had 3 that looked ripe and felt soft, I picked another one that is still firm ... I'm not sure if it will ripen once picked ... I left the other few that were still very green ...

My first figs!

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Checked on my one fig "bush" ... It had 3 that looked ripe and felt soft, I picked another one that is still firm ... I'm not sure if it will ripen once picked ... I left the other few that were still very green ...

My first figs!

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Yay! Congrats! I have heard they do not ripen off the bush but I feel like they do get softer if left in the fridge for a couple of days.

 

[ponytug]

Yay! Congrats! I have heard they do not ripen off the bush but I feel like they do get softer if left in the fridge for a couple of days.

Our experience is similar as our kalamata figs don't ripen after picking.

All the best, Peter

 

[kenmbz]

This was a great year for figs, but the crop ran almost a month later than last year.
The birds that help clean off the last of the figs were gone for weeks before the last of the figs came in.
I dried quite a few pounds, froze some, we will see how the freezing works.
Still have some ripening.

If I pick them right when they start turning a light brown they seem to finish ripening. Too green and they just stay that way.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I ate the three soft ones, they were sweet and tasty, will take the other one with me when I go back on the road, at least the rotten raccoons didn't get any!

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Our brown turkey figs I often harvest them before they are real soft to eliminate competing with the critters and bugs. They get get/got sweeter and softer.
Congrats on the first of many harvests for you.

 

[Doofy]

I haven't had a fresh fig in 64 years. I sure enjoyed them when I was young though. Fig Newton's are my only source now.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I put that last hard one that I picked back on the 21st in my truck ... Dug it out today, and it seemed to have softened up, but also "shrank"!.

I took a bite, the skin was tough and leathery ...

Didn't have the sweet fig taste of the others, almost bitter and I spit it out into the trash ... !

Can you just let ripe figs sit on the counter? Or how do you "preserve" them?

 

[kenmbz]

I dehydrate or freeze them.
I will find out how regular freezing works as it's my first year doing it.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I got home today and went to check on the figs ... One was almost brown, and was softish ... I picked it and it had a little milky juice on the stem ... It wasn't sweet, but not bitter like the other one ... Nor sweet like the first three ...

We did have a bit of a frost, it had a bunch of shriveled up leaves, but also half a dozen more little green firm figs!