Talk:Fig/Archive 1

Green and yet ripe
just a small correction. there are some species of figs that remain green even when they are ripe --Daydreamer302000 (talk) 23:13, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

An awesome tasting fruit

 * The fig fruit is actually a false fruit. See fruit for more details. This should be related to in the article. More information would also be appreciated.
 * I don't think the "green" kind actually ripens green. It turns yellowish..

Yhager 05:55, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


 * With regard to the fig being a false fruit, interestingly it is the flower of the ficus turned inward on itself.

User:Debrajmac 06:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Drdavis2 (talk) 04:58, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Why I reworded the statement that figs are "higher in fiber than any other dried or fresh fruit": USDA data show the following are higher per 100 grams--Persimmon, Japanese, dried; apple, dehydrated; passion fruit, purple, raw; banana powder.

After Calcium: Copper 0.29 mg After Magnesium: Manganese 0.51 mg  After Vitamin C: Vitamin K 15.6 μg Also: Nutrient content averages are not known to 3 or 4 significant figures, so I would round at least these numbers in this table: 63.87 to 63.9, 47.92 to 47.9, 0.619 to 0.62, 0.434 to 0.43. (See USDA's standard errors for these means.) (I am unfamiliar with editing this table.) Drdavis2 (talk) 06:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * USDA data I hope someone will add to the table, Nutritional Value per 100 g:

I Haven't seen any reference to the actual flavor of the "false/multi" fruit anywhere. I would enter a description of the taste, but I am not that good at describing flavors...Dreammaker182 (talk) 18:32, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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Extending the Fig season??
Good articals on everything that I've read in Wikipedia! Just a question or two on what I didn't see.. How can you extend the Fig growing season? I a BIG Fig bush and every year (except for one, 2005), the Figs never get ripe enough to pick because the season here dosen't seem to be long enough (by the way, HERE is Buffalo ny)! I was thinking about putting a solar blanket over the top of the plant and stringing a light bulb under the blanket, during the cold evening hours, hoping to keep the plant warm enough just to continue growth so as to eventually pick the fruit (green house effect). What do you think?? Also can anyone tell me what fertilizer to use on new and older plants. What should the soil be like (PH value? Acidic? etc.)--71.243.150.42 (talk) 16:08, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Is "thrice" an english word??
My english teacher (University level) reprimended me a few times (twice in fact) for suggesting that thrice would mean 3-times, based on the word twice, meaning 2-times. So, the position of my teacher was that "thrice" is not officially an english word ... (yet)... but this article is relying on the intuition of english-as-second-languagers and uses thrice in the phrase:  "Figs can also be found in continental climate with hot summer, as far north as Hungary, and can be picked twice or thrice per year."

Please advice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.74.68.40 (talk) 19:53, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Look it up in any dictionary. It's a word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.127.134.132 (talk) 00:42, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Removed "maggots" comment
I just edited out this sentence: "figs are good fruits. maggots live in them and lay eggs inside. so remember next time you eat a fig you are eating little fuitflies."

It seemed unnecessary. InquisitiveLurker (talk) 04:08, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Anjeer?
I discovered by chance that there is a redirect to this article for something called "Anjeer". Can somebody explain where this comes from or what language it means "fig" in? --Svartalf (talk) 23:19, 20 March 2010 (UTC) Anjeer is the Persian and Urdu word for fig. The link was set up to redirect South Asians who search it under this name. Curryfranke *who-keeps-misspelling-his-password* — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.114.195.74 (talk) 21:46, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Ficain and lignan
Maybe we should include a note about the ficain and lignan in figs, in the Nutrition section. Marcipangris (talk) 10:31, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Is ficain (ficin) the substance in the latex present in unripe figs that causes so-called 'fig burn'? Just got a nasty case myself after consuming a pint of black mission figs. Oww! It was a bit like stinging nettles on the tongue at the end there. But it's gone now, mostly... 70.102.117.22 (talk) 22:48, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

"Metres"
In the article, meters is spelled wrong. The functions "m" and "cm" automatically display the label through "convert". How do you fix it? Can somebody please figure it out and explain? Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.42.4 (talk) 03:39, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That would be because that is how it is spelled. -- Nashville Monkey  talk  --  03:42, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

estacional
I think that the word "estacional" in the article could simply be replaced with "seasonal". I have never seen that word before reading it in this article and Merriam-Webster didn't have a clue what it meant. I only found a definition in two places; wiktionairy and some online english-spanish dictionairy (thank you google translate). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.102.205.219 (talk) 13:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Why does "Sicon" link to "Scion"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.138.31.15 (talk) 15:56, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Mountain Fig section
Needs cleaning up or deleting. Looks awful, bad spelling everywhere. 94.11.50.20 (talk) 07:47, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Monoecious???
This article needs detail/clarification of pollination & reproduction. According to the Ficus article, Ficus carica is gynodioecious, not monoecious. 98.218.23.114 (talk) 02:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Cultivation
The second fruiting of San Pedro always requires pollenizing, in every site. If not pollenized drops. It Scalin2. The previous line refers to one cultivar of Ficus carica, then it should be not include in the general text for this species with the exception of a general description of the cultivars and their cultivation differences. Moreover, the correct spelling is pollination and pollinated. Daegil (talk) 06:11, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Hebrew term
Barakb32 (talk) 12:26, 20 February 2016 (UTC) The Hebrew term is not "feg" but "paga". See Hebrew wikipedia. F is never a first letter in Hebrew