Some trees don't produce a breba crop or the breba crop does not ripen because it needs to be pollinated or just does not taste good. In such cases I have heard of people severely pruning their trees back while dormant. The next season they grow lots of new wood which produce main crop figs. However I have never heard of anyone who cuts them all the way to the ground. Remember; The breba crop is grown on last seasons wood. The main crop is grown on new wood thats grown the current year.

Thanks for all the tips. I checked out the pot and it had some really terrible drainage...2 tiny holes only. I added a bunch more drainage and we will see how that does. I think I am going to eventually yank this cherry tree I put in and stick the fig in the ground. I don't know what I was thinking with the cherry tree idea. I guess winter would be a good time to do this?

Looking at what i wrote down on paper and saved . Aha reading what i wrote last year in my notebook i started ,my unripe figs on my el sals tree were July 18 then 15 ripened the family ate between aug 13 - 24, 5 more aug25 5 more aug 26 then from aug 29 thru sep 30 we had eaten about 150 from this 1 tree. also i read about swatting and hoseing a lot of bee's from tree and some cracking cause there was a lot of rain during this time. Chicago Hardy i read did not say when first unripe fig appeared......hmmm.. but the family ate a total of 61 from Sept 6th thru sept 30 and it said the fig taste was very good better than the el sals. Maybe it tatsed better cause the other tree did not like so much rain when the figs were getting ripe a little earlier than the hc. Will see this year how they go. Martin

do you know what cultivar it is? I don't see why you couldn't plant right now inground. but if you're not comfortable with that, then in early spring would be fine for sure. Would be nice to know what cultivar it is as some of those little trees turn out to be huge and placement becomes an issue. I grow some in pots because on the first try they did not do well inground and I also grow a couple of cultivars inground. One is a monster (Celeste) another, not so much, Kadota, which is still small and young. Don't know if that is its nature or if placement wasn't best. Just know that research goes a long way towards happy planting AND happy plant.