bigboard wrote or quoted:
Tim Tyler wrote:

I bought a new fig tree :-)

It's about 80 cm tall - and has got 13 green figs on it.

Photo:
http://timtyler.freeshell.org/sprout.../pot/fig_1.jpg

My question is: Should I remove the green figs?

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The figs are about 3cm in length, and don't look very close to being ripe.

So:

Should I hope for an "indian" summer. Or is it too late for these figs?

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On Gardener's World on Friday, Monty Don advised removing them.

Yes - it figgures ;-)

I removed the 13th biggest one and munched on it. Despite not being
remotely ripe it was mild - and still obviously full of figgy goodness.

Now that I know that I can still eat the unripe figs, I expect I'll
pick about half the smallest ones - and sees if that helps the remaining
ones ripen at all.

If they show signs of going downhill, I can always eat them too ;-)
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