This is a really cool UK nursery that specializes in exceptional container trees and plants. I had to show everyone these fig trees

30 gallon
 

65 gallon
 

They use drip irrigation with ferilizer, a coco coir based mix and mycorrihizae. 
  

http://www.spanishplants.co.uk/photos.aspx?img=fruit&d=fruit&p=fruit

Oh, my, gosh, they look weird that way!

Do those produce fruit?

Thanks for posting these.  I wondered if very large trees could be maintained in relatively small containers, now I see the proof.

Thanks Palazzo, now the bar is set much higher.

Buy the way, how much?

Hi Justin.
Thanks for posting this,very interesting.
Vito

Amazing, who would have thought.
It must be a full time job feeding and watering them.

Thanks for posting these pictures, and for the link that shows a few more photos of containerized, standard, single-stem, fruit trees.

I can only speculate that these fig trees with the very fat trunks, were first field-grown, extensively pruned back - including the roots - and then shoe-horned into those containers.  I would also guess that those trees are just temporarily planted into those containers, for shipping purposes, and the trees will subsequently be replanted and grown in the ground, after being sold. 

In my opinion, there's just too much tree for that size container.   Imagine trying to lift one of those trees when it's root-pruning time!  Double hernias, at a minimum, and probably some back surgery, thrown in for good measure....

Good fun to see what can be done.  Sort of reminds me of a very large-scale, bonsai.

Frank

Gives new meaning to the dreaded fig shuttle.

Tought this picture would be fitting in this tread
It looks like it's in the pot but it is not, it's in ground behind pot. What I found interesting about this tree is the pruning

cool! Why there are wood posts in on top of the pots?

hi pallazzophoto,    great pictures

hi mario 1       also great picture,  and heres me thinking
my 1000 litre, (250 gal.)  pots were not going to be big enough long term.

Hi aaa , I took a fig tree out of a 25 gallon pot that it had outgrown , trimmed the roots and branches drastically like the pictures in this post and repotted in a 10 gallon , yes a 10 gallon pot, it produced about 90 delicious figs

Hi,
+1 for the comments of Bronxfigs.
Those trees were raised in the dirt, removed and potted. One should be careful with the roots as some are lifted with a crane, axed , and what comes with, goes with.
It is my belief that those trees are too big to be effective in production, so you'll be better starting with a new young tree.
What is the strain ?
Those potted trees are cool in landscaping, to make believe that your garden is older than it really is.
I wonder where they were raised ? Did they get shipped ? Well why not, I saw a reportage on olive trees sent from southern Spain to France.
Once the truck is loaded, sure enough, it could drive further to the UK.
Do they sell well ?
Here, I've seen some, and they are hardly sold... Sure enough the price doesn't help...

The "pollarding" (a pruning technique) of trees in European countries seems to be a very common practice.  There have been a few threads posted on this forum regarding "rejuvenation pruning" of older fig trees -for better production and controlling tree size. 

I guess if done correctly, and with keeping the final scale-size in mind, it might an be effective technique to use if/when a very large fig tree has been neglected for decades.  To my eye, it looks terrible and very unnatural.  I have also seen photos of large fig trees being pruned back to just a few main branches and then the remaining thick branches were top worked and grafted with younger scions.  The new scions would then become the "new" fruiting, branches...producing different variety figs, all on one tree....sort of like the idea behind the famous, now "Frankenfig". 

Photo #10 shows what seems to be an older, very neglected, fig tree that's been drastically hacked back to the just the main trunk, and a few side branches....some of which are seen rotting, just above the roots....a perfect entry point for rot and disease.  I see just a few suckering branches sprouting from the cut ends, and the tree doesn't look very productive.  Perhaps the owners inherited this neglected, overgrown fig tree when they bought the house....maybe the branches were freeze-damaged or killed back.  It's gonna need a lot of careful, and some selective pruning work to bring a tree like this back into health, and full production.

Interesting photos.  In this country pollarding is commonly done to prune back Crepe Myrtle.  It's known as "Crepe-Murder"....and, it's ugly.  Who ever does this kind of "pruning", should not be allowed anywhere near trees, a saw, and pruning shears.....IMO.  It's mutilation.

Frank