Looks like the pot has no drainage. Am i right? If so, the plant is suffering due to a build-up of salts and lack of oxygen to the roots. When you water liberally, the water runs through the pot and out the bottom, forcing oxygen through the soil, and forcing excess salts out the drainage hole. Without the drainage hole, you are forced to water small amounts at a time or risk drowning your plant. So it is a simple matter of repotting the plant into a new container with drainage, preferably switching out much of the potting mix at the same time. Then you can leach the soil. If there IS a drainage hole, leach the soil anyway. Also, it looks like the plant would appreciate a bit more light.

Fig trees are extremely resilient. Although it dropped it's leaves due to water stress, it will, no doubt, start sprouting leaves again with regular watering, although I wouldn't expect to see any figs this season. If an 8 year old tree dropped it's leaves after a week, I take it that it is in a pot(??). If so, get it out of the direct sun for a spell until it starts budding again. I left the watering of my yard in the charge of a friend, several years ago, for 10 days, which he, in turn, sent his girlfriend over to water , which ultimately lead to the total death and destruction of everything that was growing in my yard. I always say, If you want dead plants, put them in the charge of your friends when you go on vacation. Hang in there. Your tree will shine again. FF

Well originally I had them in my kitchen basically just above my sink on a shelf there. I just recently moved it into the hall area with a fair amount of light. Maybe it misses the fact of the humidity from the kitchen sink? for a little plant it lost about 5 leaves = which it had never done before so it made me a little worried. I hope I can at least save something from the 3 cuttings (which I had planted all together after they had all rooted nicely) Cause then it made a nicer sized plant. but at this moment I just want to be sure I can save something from it, if in fact its on its way out. The roots looked pretty good - I thought - no black or mushy stuff. Anyways I hope your right Mike and it was just loosing leaves because of the dryness. I try to water them just a little - cause I know people for the most part kill plants from over watering. so I normally just water a little at a time. I will try keeping it a little more moist and see how it goes. Thank you!

Mine that I have in the house under grow lights seem to hold their leaves pretty well, but the ones I have outside almost never seem to have leaves on them, or not many. They do flower like crazy though. I'm not sure if it's the heat (I'd assume they're subjected to worse where they naturally grow), but they're not in direct sun so that may also be part of it. As the others had mentioned, a picture would help a lot. Check to make sure the caudex (trunk) isn't squishy at all. if it's firm then it's fine and probably just hasn't decided to grow leaves yet.