The attached picture is one of my HC figs. I had bought 3 of them in April as my first foray into the fig world. This one, while not growing all that much is putting out a lot of figs considering its small stature. Im sure its focused on figs rather than growth. The other 2 have taken off like weeds. One of those 2 will put out a small main crop and the third one will be fig-less. 

But this one seems to be putting out a breba and a main crop at the same time.  Seems strange to me. Or am I reading the plant wrong?

In regards to size of the figs, the biggest one has the circumference of a nickel, so they are not growing very large. They all appeared about a month ago.

PS: Its a high resolution photo so you can really zoom in on it if you wanted to

my VdB and Kathleen's Black did that this year. last year was first time that VdB put out the fig, i didn't see any breba. this year, VdB put out breba first and one ripened about two weeks ago. but breba and main are both on the tree.

Kathleen's Black, this is the first year it's putting out the fig. i had to pinch it this year. soon after pinching it, it put out the breba quickly followed by the main crop.

pete

Hi Slingha,
They all look like main crop to me.
If they are attatched to the plant above a leaf they are main.
If that bottom fig is growing below any of this years leaves, then it would be a breba, but can't see for certain from your pic

Grant
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All look main crop to me.

The bottom one(the one staring at you) is not growing from a leaf. 

There all main crop , zoom in below right below lowest fig and you can see the color difference in wood if you look carefully.
The limbs harden working there way up its already above that 4th fig and the speckles around the limb at the third fig will soon be all solid and its a good thing here in my climate to help the survival in winter storage.

Although no breba is there its otherwise normal to have both breba and main on tree in June .

Is that too many figs for a young tree?

I would take off at least the top 2 and leave the bottom 2.

That's main crop.  I would feed the tree weak liquid feed, weekly and enjoy the harvest.

Usually when you see main crop and breba on a tree at the same time the breba is larger and farther along in development

It's in MG soil and it gets a very small monthly shot of 5-10-5 granular on top of the mulch

The HC were from Easytogrowbulbs and they came potted in soil with full roots. I think that made a difference with these. They are growing wonderfully. The Celeste I ordered(see my post) came basically bare root. The leaves were thin and only kinda green. They are now green but still too fragile for full sun. I put them out this morning for an hour and they were already droopy. Back under the sugar maple they go.

I concur with most saying that the fruit shown; is all main crop.

The best explanation is in Grant's post #3.

By definition, the main crop is fruit on this-year (current) wood growth.
Leaves only grow on the current year wood.

Breba, by definition; is fruit on last-year wood.
Last year fig wood does NOT grow leaves from it.
It may only grow breba fruit and/or new shoot-tips (branches).


Wood color is a very iffy subject....



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a very strange post format for me .... maybe it just got fixed .... yes?!