[Arid_gardener] Fig tree setting fruit late

[Marcia Lincoln]

I live in Tucson and have a Black Mission fig that is doing very nicely, has
been in the ground for about 4 or 5 years and produces well, but the last 2
years the second crop has set so late in the fall that the fruit do not have
a chance to mature before frost (usually around Thanksgiving here, although
this year it was later). At that time the fruit are only about thumb-size,
they freeze and are ruined. Does anybody have any ideas why the tree is
setting a crop so late? Has anybody else experienced this with their fig? Is
it typical? I'm not sure when the first crop has been ripening, as I didn't
make a note of the date, but I think June or July. I get all geared up
anticipating more figs, then a frost comes along and they're gone. Thanks,
Marcia

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