Oh gee, I am having Fig Frustration here! My little Celeste fig set a pretty nice crop of about 40 figs this year. They sit there, rock hard and about an inch across until every once in a while one will suddenly plump up to twice the size, and ripen up. I go out and carefully feel it to catch it when it begins to soften up.
Trouble is, the birds, squirrels or other rodents at night also have their eye on my figs. Needless to say, I've only tasted two figs so far.
Now, with the wet, wet summer weather we're having, the rusty fungus is among us again, too. I anticipate in a week or two the tree will have lost all its leaves. Not much I can do about this, having tried all the benign anti-fungal sprays I am allowed to spray on a tree with edible fruit, to no avail. Once the tree loses its leaves, no more fruit will ripen. Sometimes I get a new flush of leaves and a late summer/fall crop of a few more figs, but they never ripen up before the weather gets cold either.
Anybody got ideas here?
@ediblelandscapingsc ?
