6. Allow the figs to stay in the oven for up 8 to 24 hours. The figs are dry when the outsides are leathery and no juice can be seen on the inside when you split one open. Store your dried figs in air-tight containers or freezer bags and keep them in the refrigerator or the freezer. To add sweetness to your figs before drying, dissolve 1 cup (236 ml) of sugar into 3 cups (709 ml) of water and bring it to a boil. 2  Add the figs to the water and sugar mixture and allow them simmer for approximately 10 minutes. 3  Remove the figs from the water and then follow the steps for sun or oven drying.
The Conifers are cone-bearing seed plants. Most are trees; some are shrubs. They are formally the Division Pinochet or Coniferous. Conifers are Gymnosperms. They are cone-bearing seed plants with vascular tissue; all living conifers are woody plants, the great majority being trees. Living conifers are all in the order Pinales.
A pine cone is an organ of the pine tree containing its reproductive structures. Pine trees are only one of the conifer, or cone-bearing, plants; others include cedars, firs, cypresses, and redwoods.Pine cones, like the reproductive organs of other conifers, come in male and female varieties.In most species of pine, male and female cones grow on the same tree. The trees of some species have cones predominantly of only one sex, with a few of the opposite sex. Pinus is a genus of trees with about 115 species.ale cones are smaller, more herbaceous, and shorter lived. The male cone is usually no more than 2 inches (5 cm) long and lives for only a few months in the spring or the autumn, depending on the species of pine. It is covered with microsporangia, or pollen sacs. After it releases its pollen, it falls off the tree.