How do you know when figs are ripe to pick from a tree?
Question:I have a fig tree, but I have no idea of how to tell when they're ripe.
Answers:
There ready to pick when there a dark red or purple and soft. But you need to keep an eye on them because ants LOVE them,If they get one they will get them all.I am just a little ray of sunshine arnt I. LOL
There is an old Spanish proverb: A fig is ripe when it has a hangman's neck (droops), a mourner's eye (oozes honeydew from the eye) and a penitent's robe (skin tears). In practice, a drooping fig is a ripe fig.
I start eating as soon as they turn purple...or at least when their not green.
Purple and semi soft...not squishy.
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