"Oxymel of Squill" wrote in message
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: apols all round if this is a repeat, it didn't show in my browser, don't
: know if it didn't arrive or if Mr Microsoft is playing games again
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: gobsmacked to find a glut of figs for the first time ever, in the
: greenhouse!! Most of them are dark green and tight skinned, a few are
light
: green and look a bit weak, more wrinkley. Are they failed figs? Should
they
: be removed? Or will they catch up?
:
: thanks

This reply was to your original posting

Probably last season's '2nd' crop, which in this country doesn't ripen.
If so, they will fall off.

If they're this year's crop, they will continue to grow, then ripen to
become soft, and at that stage they will change colour (depending on
variety) and will start to droop as the neck becomes soft - they are
then ready for harvest.

Mine, on a sunny S facing terrace in Yorkshire, ripen late Aug to Sept -
you'd be earlier in a greenhouse, but this still sounds a bit too early.

IME the non-ripening second crop always seems larger that the ripening
first crop.
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Kay
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