Ok will do. Is this the time of year to do it or wait til spring?

In your zone 9 I don't think it would make much difference. I have pruned limbs off of mine throughout the growing season with no ill affects.

Ut oh!! I was reading through this tree forum and I think I might have a paper mulberry! I will have to get up there and grab a leaf to take a real close look. The leaves are very similar. Can you tell in the pics I posted?? The Paper Mulberry has 3 segments and most figs have 5 segments.

We would need a better photo. I can't quite make out the tree from all the other things growing.
This is what my fig tree looks like.

That is a beeeeautiful tree, indeed, Lynn! Woweeee! Much prettier than my neighbor's. Theirs doesn't get much sun any more with all the oak trees maturing. I will get a good close up of the leaf in the forest tomorrow in daylight. The leaves are similar in shape.

Look forward to see the leaves. Something else, fig leaves have a very distinctive scent. I love the smell of them.

Darnit. Not a fig! I had fig bar dreams last night. It is a paper mulberry. Seeing the young leaves confirmed it. They leaves are also fuzzy and rough and do not smell at all. The good news is if you click on the last pix and look closely, there is a muscadine vine growing on it, or was growing. Muscadine Jelly?

Here's a picture of my Brown Turkey Fig " Figburt" LOL Unfortunatly its to large to move with us so Ive
been taking cuttings. Do you want a couple to root ?

I'm going to really miss this tree I raised it from a
cutting it's 12 yrs old

How kind of your to offer, Shannon. That is, if you were speaking to me. I don't have a sunny enough spot in my yard for a fruit tree and in the forest, it would just be fighting for sunlight. I am glad you get to take part of your tree with you in your move. Get lots of cuttings, just in case. What other part of your landscape are you taking with you?

Oh, a muscadine vine, I love muscadine jelly. I haven't had any since I left Miss. in the late 60's. I can almost taste and smell them. Drooling now.

Beautiful fig tree Shannon. We have a difficult time getting ripe figs here and cherish each one that makes it.

Lynn gave me cuttings from her figs. I have several little ones growing in 6 inch pots now. They are about to graduate to larger pots. ? How long does it take them to produce some fruit?

Time will tell Mary. I think mine were about 5 years old. If weather is right, I would think they can produce quite young. They have to get a nice, big root system going first.
What are your summer night time temps like?

Lynn, we have lots of 80 and 90's from June through September, with nights in the 60's sometimes, and now we are having 40's and upper to mid 30's. I know you lived near Yakima, it's just a bit cooler than that. Same dry climate, annual precipitation is less than 10 inches. Wind dries things out all the time.

Yes, that would be similar to the Yakima Valley, with about 8" of annual rainfall.

I had a friend tell me that someone at the local nursery told her that if we took a cutting from her old fig tree, it would never have figs. According to you folks, that doesn't too true. or is it a certain variety? thx ahead for the info

My neighbor took cuttings 4 years ago from mine two fig trees. Last year she got her first figs.
Vern's Brown Turkey and Lattarula.

Does anybody know of a place that sells figs that would ship a box or two to Canada?

Hello, came looking for Ficus being grown in Epi form but it seems no. Lynn here these trees grow on trees, buildings, you name it and they grow on them. As to what happens to the tree on which the seed landed, no it is not parasitic but it smothers and kills the tree once the roots have reached the soil. Cheryl, it would be best if you eradicate that paper mulberry. Highly invasive and once established, impossible to kill. If a root enters any crack in a structure, that will be the end. Any way humans here normally don't eat the fruit of paper mulberry only the birds.
Regards,
Arif.

It has been a long time since anyone posted in this thread. I hope we can revive it as there has been some interest expressed lately.

Good morning Tee.
I found out something interesting last week, on the P. Allen Smith gardening program. Now is a good time to prune your fig trees/bushes back drastically. All the new growth that will come on with spring is what will produce fruit. I am going to give it a try this weekend. My fig trees have become so tall I can't even reach to fruit at the top. Think I will take them back to about 3 feet.