Chuck, that looks like a Ficus macrophylla;  such as the Moreton Bay fig in San Diego...

     

So it doesn't produce figs.... Awww

Not mine - but I spotted this one in someone's backyard last year...

For size reference, that's a standard 6'-8' tall high fence...

There's a very high probability that it's a Celeste.

OK - At the moment I think Greenville SC is in the lead with that massive street tree....But north Texas seems to be leading with girth and foliage and number of big trees....Seems a lot is bigger in Texas.....

Looking forward to some big fruit pics...

Thanks all...Great stuff

My Desert King

 

Joe -  I have never really counted.  It does vary from year to year, but a conservative  guess would be over three hundred.  Every couple to days throughout August, I pick no less that 3-5 dozen figs.

Wow! But does size really matter?!?
View the YouTube video done by the Canadien figster in B.C.
showing how he prunes his Desert King every year and gets 400-figs a year?
I've wondered if his technique would work as well for other cultivars.

If I had a tree produce 50 ripe figs this year I'd be over the moon.... 

Charles - That is an excellent pruning You Tube.  I have used it as a guide, as I have been reshaping it down to a more manageable size.

I really was being conservative .  I would  estimate that I get closer to 500 in a good year. I just didn't want to over state my harvest.

500?!?! Ahhhh!

Sad thing is,  last summer was the final harvest from my Desert King.  I am  going to miss this wonderful fig and the abundance, not just for myself,  but for all the people I shared them with.  I  introduced many to their first taste of  fresh figs.

When I joined f4f, it was because of my Desert King.  I knew that one day we would be moving and I wanted figs trees to go with me when that happened. 
I am so thankful I found this forum and great people here to help me do just that.  

It has taken a few years, but the business park across the street from us is nearly complete, our little two lane street was  expanded to 5 lanes a couple years ago.  Currently our road is being  extended to the light rail station and airport scheduled for completion later this year.  Developer have now turned their attention to properties on our side to the road.

I really,  was hoping for just one more harvest, but it is not going to happen.

I will miss my magic fig tree, but I have her daughters. 

OK. Wonderful pics of LARGE trees!
Now, let's see some LARGE potted plants.
Here's the BIGgest fig I've got to start things going.
100 gram LdA 

Charles, I'm drooling looking at that. How did it taste?

Got to get me some of that!

  These were from a Black Jack sport...  and tasted wonderful, rather like aged watermelon wine.  They averaged 135g to 140g (5 oz ea). 


     

   

Geeze! I've been served smaller steaks......

These are my inground Celeste from northern NJ! About 8 feet high. Just took a peek the other day and both are alive and well all the way to to the top!

hi I feel your pain I have 2 desert kings one I planted 40 years ago at my first house and one at my new house that's 20 years old the 20 year old is in a windy spot on an island it dosent grow like the older one the old one has a massive crop each year.      good luck with your new ones.

Here's the answer for that Desert King! Take it with you!

@TahomaGuy2 .... Awesome LDA, Charles.... Hope my cuttings of LDA eventually produce nice figs like that!

@BlueMalibu .... Beautiful Black Jack Figs! Are those the beauties that become part of that delicious fig and berry jam? Only the best I have ever tasted... I am hoping my Black Jack cuttings produce fruit resembling those....