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Figs not ripening

Posted on 7/31/25 at 4:53 am
Posted by NyCaLa
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2014
1132 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 4:53 am
Anyone else with this problem? I've tried everything to push them to ripen to no avail. A friend said that it happens.

But why?
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
19351 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 7:08 am to
It does happen from time to time. Almost every year I get a bumper crop of figs and then they slow down after a couple weeks but the tree has hundreds of smaller green figs in various stages of growth.

Those figs hardly ever ripen, and the few that do are stunted and nowhere near like the ones that already came off the tree.

How old is your tree? Maybe it's just too young to fully produce good figs at this point.
Posted by TigerB8
End Communism
Member since Oct 2003
10849 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 10:52 am to
I've got 2 peach trees. One of them produces too much and the other the peaches stop in the middle of the ripening process for the 3rd year in a row. Then the squirrels run off with the green peaches. Based on what I can tell, the tree simply doesn't get the needed sunlight. I've got a pomegranate tree in my back yard that has never produced fruit. It produced the flowers a few times but never any fruit. I planted it when I had all these trees and weed/brush cut down. But since then, poplars and other weed tress have grown back so fast and have blocked out the sun. I had 4 leyland cypress I planted to block out the neighbor behind me. Now 2 of them are dead and the other 2 will die soon due to lack of sun. I'd check to confirm you are getting enough sun.

I also had a brown turkey fig tree that split in half due to a fungus. Had to remove it after that.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
46517 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 11:01 am to
same

I got a huge crop early July, picked all I could and now the ripe ones are gone but the tree is still covered in green figs. Sometimes they ripen again and sometimes they don’t

My trees are Celeste
Posted by NyCaLa
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2014
1132 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 11:35 am to
Mine's a brown turkey.

I've heard having a companion tree nearby might help.

It's only 3yrs. old so I'll reserve judgment for now.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
46517 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 11:41 am to
quote:

It's only 3yrs. old
you got a couple more years before you’ll get a consistent crop. Also that freeze after everything budded out this spring didn’t help

I have a bunch of rooted Celeste cuttings in pots if you’d like to plant one of those, it’s a great tasting fig and the trees are bionic
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
60538 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 12:56 pm to
quote:

Figs not ripening


I have had this happen from time to time. Got a good variety of trees and it happens to all of them. There seems to be no rhyme or reason, but I have read that is]t hapoens when the tree is stressed at a certain point in fig development.

As your buddy says…it just happens!
Posted by NyCaLa
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2014
1132 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:19 am to
Thanks for the offer, Cgrand!

I can't figure out how to PM on this board, but you could message my email at evanpyleATatt.net
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