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[Zeugitai <zeugitai@gmail.com>]

The skin on some of the fruits is splitting. The immature fruits seem
to be seeping milky fluid through the skin -- pores or splits -- looks
like white glubules on the skin, like something on the fruit, until I
touched them and found them to be sticky fluid droplets.  We have
not had much rain -- one good rain in over seven weeks -- but I water
the fig tree by hand.  Leaves are beautiful and plentiful, and I
haven't seen any kind of damage from insects, unlike every other tree
I've got! 

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From: "Hal Love" <lovehd@comcast.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:56:12 -0500
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Help with Celeste Figs

Mark,

 

That is normal for a ripe fig. They will droop and come off easily when you lift them up at a 90 degree angle. The skin will tend to split as they become fully ripe, although they can split somewhat prematurely if you get a lot of rain after a prolonged dry spell.

 

Hal

zn 6b TN

 

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From: Zeugitai

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:52 AM

Subject: [NAFEX] Help with Celeste Figs

I put in a Celeste 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

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