I live in south Arkansas. I planted 6 che trees grafted onto Osage Orange about 14 years ago. One male and 5 female. After about 3 years, I wanted to see if I could cross a che with an osage orange so I cut down the male tree. The female still produce fruit, but not quite as many and seedless. The trees are planted in poor soil - heavy clay with poor drainage. Not good for any trees. They all are healthy and large about 8 to 10 inch bases and over 20 feet tall and wide each. I tried to prune them back for the first few years, they just grew to fast and big so I gave up. Many of the trees produced over 20 limbs over 8 feet long in one growing season straight up. I just keep them cut so I can ride my riding lawn mower under them without hitting any limbs. They are attractive trees. I planted them far too close (I thought they were bushes), about 10 feet apart, they are all intertwined. They should have been 25 feet apart and not pruned. I have over 100 different types of fruit trees from around the world (just a hobby)and would consider the fruit a 5 on a scale from 1 to 10. They are very juicy, sticky and medium sweetness. I have made preserves from them and they taste like fig preserves. The preserves are dark red and if you want you can carry the process futher and candy them. They are also good that way. My osage/che crosses are only about 6 foot tall with a 1" base and have not produced fruit yet. My desire is to have a fruit the size of Osage Orange (grapefruit size) but the sweetness of the che. The Osage is a more distint male and female. Both male and female of the che produce fruit that is the same. The Osage male only produces pollen and no fruit. The female produces only fruit. I went through quite a trial and error period of years before sucessfully making the cross. I am not a horticulturist or speller as you can see, so don't have great knowledge on how to make crosses. I am an engineer with limited time to play with the fruit trees, but I dearly love doing it.

I'm glad that ffff mentioned Glendora, because it's my favorite of the class. Virtually identical in habit to Sydonie, with darker pink flowers. Arthur de Sansal is a dog in my garden. Even with fungicide, he blackspots and has been growing backward since I planted him in 2009. I haven't looked, so I don't know if he made it through this winter ... I'm kind of hoping that he didn't. In my garden, Indigo is short and it suckers with wild abandon. I have it in a place where this is welcome. It's a consideration for you.

You should see some figs even if you pruned all the new wood. You may have a dud tree or some critter nibbled off your figs when they were forming.

I live and have my at-home figtree nursery in Northern California but I have 5 acres on the coast above Corpus Christi (Aransas Pass) Texas. I keep thinking that maybe I'll retire to south Texas and grow figs and tomatoes ( and maybe local palms) but there is always that looming threat of hurricanes. We get spoiled in California (at least I am) with all the near perfect weather and growing conditions. I have a Celeste growing happily down there now. I bought it at lowes two years ago. The roots are feeding on the high water table. No one to water it while I'm up here in California but neighbor says it is doing fine. I'd like to bring a couple thousand cuttings down there and start up a nursery. Maybe in two years. FF