I have this problem on one of my trees which is 3 years old. The little figs gets spongy and falls down. Water is adequate the tree is potted in big pot which is planted in the garden soil with lots of holes in the pot to allow the roots to spread in the garden. The branches are very healthy and vigorous. the branches are pinched and the figs are thinned. Some one is saying it needs pollination with fig WASP. How can I get the fig wasp es to pollinate my tree. By the way the tree is Brown Turkey and I  live in zone 6. Comments and advice are greatly appreciated.
Abe

Abe,

It does not sound like a Brown Turkey. Got any pictures of the tree, leaves, and fruit? The fig wasp does not survive in your area. It would be impractical to bring in a bag of wasps to fertilize every crop.

Brown Turkey does not need the wasp to produce figs. Pictures would help immensely. There are a couple varieties of common fig that will drop significant amounts of unripe figs, but without pics it's hard to tell what is going on. If you have a variety in need of the wasp in your zone that's not gonna happen, as noted above, that wasp does not live in your zone.

I'm having the same problem with my VdB and Abebereria. They each have a ton of figs, well maybe 40-50. I'm thinking they either have too many fruits for the size of the tree, may need more fert or could be root bound? They are getting enough water. I'm going to remove half the fruit and up the fert a bit. I'll check roots this winter. Any other ideas? Spongey is not good. :-(
Sue

Fruit drop is usually caused  by lack of pollination (for smyrna and San Pedro types) or environmental factors, which cause the tree to reduce the fruit load - temps, water, nutrition, etc.

I have never, ever seen fruit drop on VdB. I would be looking at a water issue (too little, too infrequent, not reaching the rootzone, etc.)

Fruit drop is usually caused  by lack of pollination (for smyrna and San Pedro types) or environmental factors, which cause the tree to reduce the fruit load - temps, water, nutrition, etc.

I have never, ever seen fruit drop on VdB. I would be looking at a water issue (too little, too infrequent, not reaching the rootzone, etc.)

Even forum moderator makes double posts.  ; )

Martin, you crack us all up!  double posts are sort of expected.  But this thing with VdB is not!  I just popped a sweet juicy VdB ripe one in my mouth, and it was raspberry jam at it's best! 

But there are some small ones that wrinkle and don't actually become figs!  OH, and there are others that are roundish, turning black, tasting great...but they don't have the neck!

This is a huge problem!

Suz

Jon, the VdB fruit is not dropping. They are about 1 1/2" and many are soft and spongy. I was going to remove about half to see what happens...unless the varmints beat me to it.
Sue

My LSU Purple and Kadota did that with the surfeit of rain. It might be a drainage problem especially as the holes in sunken pots get blocked by the roots.