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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

They’re behaving just like figs!  For fresh eating, I like them just before they split, when they’re soft but not too soft, and have a little acidity to balance the sweetness.  Dried, too, I like.  in between those stages, I’ll cook with them.  Others like different ripeness stages.  You should have figs now on your try at all stages of ripeness, so you can try and see what you like. 

 

Stephen

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Zeugitai
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:21 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Celeste Figs

 

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: 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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