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These are called brown turkey figs ... not quite as good as, say, black mission figs, but still lovely for November! There is another fig tree close by that has orange figs, but I only see the old orange ones on the ground and I don't know if the ones left will ripen ... but if they do, they'll be in hand... meanwhile, the starry red figs will be ripe again next month, weather permitting!
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Do they grow as a tree where you live? Here in Florida, they stay a bush.
The shortest fig tree growing within walking distance of me is 8-10 feet tall. The largest is at least 30 feet tall.
They will not grow like that here in Florida. My weather is not much different than yours.
I wonder if it is a variety issue, or a water issue ... many cultivated figs are from dry, sunny climates in the world around the Mediterranean Sea in general ... but one of the trees has a red spotted fig and is the tallest, and I think it is from India in origin ... meanwhile, there are also bush figs ... it's a big family of fruit ... https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/ficus_virens.htm
Brown turkey is what we grew. Maybe our weather is different, it might be too hot here.
Brown turkey is the shortest tree here too, and most of it is bending down to my height and is quite bushy ... so, maybe it is just a short cultivar. It is cool here -- averaging 55-70 all year -- and it is on the western side of a hill that gets quite a lot of fog, but maybe brown turkeys are just short.
No, we have had other figs, too. They only made a bush. I think they need cooler weather. Rose of Sharon makes a tree in Alabama but here is only a bush, I am wondering if they are both more cold-tolerant.