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[Zeugitai <zeugitai@gmail.com>]

I put in a Cleleste Fig tree this spring and it has a good batch of
figs on it.  Today I went out and saw pin points of seepage coming
through the skin of the majority of fruits, some more and some less
mature.  My first thought was that our unbroken string of heat
indexes over one hundred degrees these past five days have made them
sweat, much as I am doing right now.  I'm in northeastern
Arkansas, near the bootheel of Missouri, and it has been extremely hot
and extremely humid this past week.  I had one fruit, purplish,
drop off in my hand when I tried to inspect it. It is very soft. 
Is this normal for a ripe fig?  I am completely inexperienced with
figs ( and most else!)  Do we have any fig growers out
there?  (Thanks)

Mark
Greenway, AR
Zone 6B