Second, It depends the the fig type as well. For a breba (fruit on last years wood) type fig, like Desert King, even up here in Canada, the breba figs are already "mature" in size but not ripe. That won't happen for me until August some time. Main crop (fruits growing from this years fresh wood) won't ripen until late September-October if we get enough sun.

You can also push your figs to crop earlier by piching the growing tips after 5 or 6 leaves as well. Up here, if we left the figs to grow on their own, our summers are not long enough for the figs to mature. So we pinch the tips around mid June to make the tree put out figs earlier (but you get fewer fruit). Check out herman2's threads on this subject.

Hope this helps.

Once they start leafing out I mulch them with composted leaves and composted de-smelled steer manure and they just take off from there.

In 2-3 more weeks the Breba crop will have been harvested. At that point I will mulch them again to try to jump start the Main crop. With a little luck I will have a nice Main crop harvest this year.

Paradiso Brebas

Wow, already got a ripe fig? How are you growing your figs? I'm only 30-40 min drive from Oakville and my main crop figs are just starting to show for me. Are you using a greenhouse of sort to get them started early?