I've only bought figs once and they charged 8 dollars for a gallon bucket of self picked figs and 10 dollars if they picked them for you. I have no idea of how much a gallon of figs weigh.
"gene"

I would say 6.50 a pound was very high. I do not know what a gallon of fig weigh. If I was to guess I would say at least three pounds or more. Gene the figs are a little cheaper here, pick your own is 6 dollars and they pick it is 8.00 per gallon. All they have is Celeste or Alma. Maybe if they had different figs they may be higher priced.

Mission figs from California go for $4 per clam box at the supermarket....approximately 1 pound. Maybe the u-pick-it operations charge a bit more to compensate for some of the free samples some customers take while picking their pound of figs. I know I would have to sample a few. I've heard a local say he would need to weigh some of his customers before and after they went into his fruit orchard to really make any money with them. They love eating his Asian pears family style right under the tree. They leave with a small bucket. Too funny......

I am wondering how they eat the fruit without being washed. I even soak my own produced fruit in water for 15 minutes then wash it. I laugh when I my Gf washes the fruit we buy from the store she almost to skin it.

It's probably not out of line. Some supermarkets are charging nearly $3 a pound for apples and more exotic fruits are a lot more.

A lot of the farmer's market vendors are charging $3 a pound for tomatoes.

The price of food just keeps going up and up.

I won't sell U-pick. I don't want to deal with the destructive customers and I can't even imagine how much the liability insurance would cost you.

in the prime of the season, there are many Craiglist ads in Austin area for 2-3 dollars / pound for self-pick figs. I remember one for as little as a buck.

~james

In season, figs in the HEB groceries here in Austin, Texas sell for $4.99/lb. I have seen figs in the grocery store at $6.00 - $7.00/lb. However, we virtually never buy figs in the grocery store because they are often "mushy" and tasteless compared to the fresh figs from our orchard. Fresh figs are not very good when more than a week or so old.

Price of fig?

Those blessed by living in some fig-heaven place e.g., CA,
they should be quite available and (relatively) cheap?

For us up-north-people,(true ripe)figs are usually rare
to find and much more expensive... That is one
reason for we going through that (sometimes) nightmare
(think winter-protection) of growing our own figs.

Early Sept, I did find some very-good figs in pint
containers @ ~$5 each, they were Mission figs from CA.
The big surprise was that they freshly ripe, unlike
others that I had tried before (tasting like latex).

Well gorgi, you'd think they'd be cheap here but it surprises me how much groceries will charge for a jewel case of figs,many of which are already starting to show mold if you look on the bottoms. At a small market nearby there were 4 packs of missions and kadotas going for 4 dollars each. Other times I've seen brown turkeys for sale for 6 dollars per 8 ounce package. At a Trader Joe's on the other hand I saw a huge plastic case of about 24 Missions for only 12.99. That was 2 weeks ago, and so far the best price that's ever come to my attention.

I live in Delaware County, Near Philadelphia Pennsylvania
and the Produce Junctions here sell figs in a pint
container for 2.00 each. I have been buying 2 a day for
weeks they are tree ripened and ooooo sooo good....
They have had three kinds, 1 large green then "something"
and then black mission for the last 3 weeks...
YUMMMMM!!! I LOVE TO EAT FIGS !!! And Grow Fig Trees...

You think $6.50 per lb is crazy. I just saw an advert on Amazon selling organic smyrna figs for $156.72 for 40oz or 2.5lbs which in turn is a little over a kilo. If it wasn't for the 72 cents I'd have pegged it for a typo for sure. Now that's crazy unless they come with Nigella Bites stark naked and wanting to re-enact 9 and a half weeks with me using the figs in place of the strawberries. If that's the case then I'll take 200kg please.

Waw that is an old thread.

Here in Canada fresh fig's are a dollar each fig, try of 12 $ 16 95.

Figs xon't taste good either.

There are about 2.5 pounds in a quart jar of figs, at $6.50 a pound, a gallon would be 2.5 poundsX 4 quarts = 10 pound a gallonX $6.50 a pound= $65.00 a gallon. That not counting profit from selling cutting on line or rooting cuttings & selling 1 or 2 year old potted plants.

I have 70 fig cutting in bed now & will sale organic fig on half, you pick & you keep half & I keep half to process. Maybe I am going to cheap, but all the homesteads I know, here in S.C., have a grape vine & at least one fig tree.

Im from sc too,and my fig tree is LOADED!! They are the sweetest little bulges,and I am the only one in my family that will pick,or eat them!! Im trying to sell to a close produce stand,and Im wondering whats a reasonable price considering all the labor,chiggers,spiders,and delivery? Any suggestions? Ps, my figs are slightly bigger than golf balls.

Are you selling and what part of South Carolina?

Well, if you are selling in North Alabama, $25 a gallon. If you are related or a friend, $0. Huge fig tree. Enough for everyone and the birds, squirrels, and probably a raccoon, lol