2025 Season still has a couple of weeks to go

One of the benefits I appreciate most about growing figs in ground is the fact that the soil stays warm long after air temperature drops to unpleasant levels. While growing fig trees in pots come with a few pros, they don’t get any of the benefits of this particular luxury.
Weather forecast calls for three days of continuous rain, with about 2.5 inches in total. Picked the ripe figs earlier today, and our in-ground trees (specially Hollier) are still loaded with a few hundred figs remaining. Many will ripen and the rest will be soft enough for “whole fig” jam.
Meanwhile, our potted trees will continue to ripen in the grow room. Those include Martinenca Rimada, CDD Noire, Paratjal Rimada, Black Madeira, Bourjassotte Noire, JH Adriatic, and a few other of our preferred figs.

Great harvest and I agree 100%.

Nice looking harvest.

I am finding that I'm needing to be extra vigilant with bagging figs that are near ripe. I think as other sources of food disappear, pests are getting more aggressive. Lots of wasps and asian lady beetles here. Ants haven't been bad yet.

Those are beautiful! I just noticed my un-celeste ( the ones that might be alma, and I'm waiting till next year to see what it does and send in pictures) has babies on a couple branches I had nipped off - they are the size of my thumbnail up to a dime so I might try a green house cover like what you did just in case they might ripen all the way into December. Do you still water at the same rate until you've gotten all the ripe figs you are going to get and then back off on the water to your winter watering rate?

These trees are in ground; they don’t need any water this late into the season.
Having said that, I did something very unusual and unpopular for the first time ever:

* I gave them two extra doses of 4-18-38 MasterBlend + Epsom Salt mid and end of September, along with generous amounts of water.

This is what my wife & I are doing right now
We made 4 jars (3 kg) last week, and 3 jars today (2 kg).

Finished

betdempster said:

Those are beautiful! I just noticed my un-celeste ( the ones that might be alma, and I'm waiting till next year to see what it does and send in pictures) has babies on a couple branches I had nipped off - they are the size of my thumbnail up to a dime so I might try a green house cover like what you did just in case they might ripen all the way into December. Do you still water at the same rate until you've gotten all the ripe figs you are going to get and then back off on the water to your winter watering rate?

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I don't know if this is the right answer, but I am going to continue watering like normal until the trees go dormant. I will be watering less in the fall than I did in the summer, just because it's not as hot, and I don't know what the winter watering schedule should be after they go dormant. Last winter I only had one Celeste that was 2 years old. When it went dormant, I put it under the covered patio up against our house and did not water it all winter. It did fine and woke up in March. I don't know if people give them any water when they are dormant. I would like to know if I should water them at all.