After moving >900 miles (from Zone 6a to 8a, where the figs can grow in the ground with little fear), the one fig on my little Black Mission survived and was almost ripe when my daughter came in to tell me she bumped it and it fell off.  I sliced it open anyway and tasted it.  The ripe, inner portion was quite good and I can definitely see the promise.  Hopefully, next year, in its new climate, it will be more productive and I'll get to taste fully ripe ones.
 
On a related note, if anyone has suggestions on how and when I should trim up the suckers at the base (especially if I want to propagate a few new trees), I'm all ears.
 

My Royal Vineyard that I started from a cutting back in March also survived the trip, but it's young enough to have avoided any fruit-based drama.
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Hi dahlt,
Welcome to our forum.
When do you plan to put the tree in the ground ?
I would put the tree in the ground a an inch deeper than the actual height of the rim of the pot.
If the tree is to stay a bit more in this pot, I would add dirt up to the rim of this pot. That pot looks a bit small for the size of the tree, and I would at least consider potting the tree up.
By next June, those stems would be rooted and that is when I would separate them from the mother tree .

Well, I probably won't have access to a patch of ground for planting until at least December, so it will probably stay in a pot until next spring.  Maybe I'll trying moving it to a bigger pot this coming weekend (and check on how viable some of those suckers might be on their own).

dahlt,
Welcome to the forum!

Are you sure that was a Black Mission? :)
If you got it from a nursery, it could be mislabeled.

Try to get a Mt. Etna fig, they will produce something edible much quicker than a BM.
Like a Gino's Black, MBVS, Chicago Hardy, Sal's EL etc., you do not need all of them, just one is enough for a starter.
They are not rare.