Thanks Jason, I am getting low on perlite. Thank you for the info and advice.
@ Jason (satellitehead) I guess it's not a bad problem to have if your trees grow so well you need to up pot. I'm sure to with your longer season you have up pot more often. I went through most of my figs from last year and up potted or repotted, so hopefully I didn't kill anything, but I am glad I did it. It was good to see the growth and whats going on in the pot. Now I can't wait to see how they do this year.

My experience has been, "third year's a charm"

I hope that is just becuase you know that people seem to go nuts after the the first year and accumulate way to many fig trees in the second year. I need some results this year! My wife has been suprisingly quiet about how many trees I started. I know she is waiting for her fig tribute payment.

nah, it just seems like (with pot culture) first year is growth, no figs.  year two typically doesn't see a lot of breba, but a few main crop figs possible.  year three is usually more breba crop figs and a better main crop than year 2.  from there on out, i've had pretty steady increases year after year.

obviously, this is subjective and influenced by a number of things.

Yeah that seems to be how it's going for me too. I have a few trees I picked up last year that were two years old and a few that are older.