Hi,
A friend swapped some cuttings with another gardener some ten years ago.
The root-shoot was planted at 30 km from my garden. That location/town has a shorter tomato grow season.
Eventually one year I could spot a fig that looked somehow ripe - but so dry ... I though ok just not enough watering here.
In the Fall of 2011, I decided to get some root-shoots and they survived the harsh 2012 winter and grew.
Last year, around the date of 1st September appeared some maincrops figs on my tree -none ripened last year.
The tree is now at two meters of height. To be precise they are three trees - from the 4 root-shoots I had taken.
This year the tree exposed some three brebas and some three old maincrops survived the winter.

This is what they look like now :

 

 

The fence is two meters tall ...
 


Some drinks hidden in the kitchen
 

Hum... Dead for sure, but unfortunately not "dead ripe" and never will :
 

Showing violet layer around ... But no wasp here !
 


Those brebas look like full of viable seeds ...
 

Taken from the tree - some fell in my hand ... But unfortunately not edible
 

So yes, you can have a figtree and be hungry ! And ANGRY !
Now, a thought came to me: what if the first tree was a grafted one (without the owner knowing about) and thus that strain of root-shoots that apparently will not produce any edible... because the first root-stock
was a caprifig perhaps ...
Well the 2014 maincrop has showed up on the tree, so  I'll see later this year f the maincrop is edible ... else, I'll be burning that tree !
I like to propagate the trees via root-shoots ... So grafted trees are a pain for me !

Of course if that figtree had been better described by the former owner... but once again, if it came from a grafted tree ...
My friend is sure that the mother tree was making "such big figs" ...
Well, I'll wait until end of this or end next year before removing it - just to be sure ... and really sure ...

Wow, too bad the figs aren't edible. Beautiful leaves, and it looks very healthy.

Does it happen very often that fig trees purchased from nurseries in Europe are grafted?  It would be unheard of from nurseries here as far as I know.  Grafting seems to only be attempted in rare cases by a few hobbyists and possibly fig researchers.  I was just curious why you think the tree might have been grafted.

Hi Rewton,
In production zones, lots of trees are grafted even figtrees - and that tree coming from a Mediterranean gardener and the resulting strain showing those ugly fruits, leads me to think of a grafted tree.
Of course, taking a cutting works ... But taking a root-shoot leads you to ugly results ... When I think that I could/should have a productive tree instead ... 3 years lost ...
A friend reported to me seeing grafted trees for sale in Portugal ... I already saw videos about grafted trees in Turkey ... so I'm sure that this could happen.
Of course, perhaps the swap was just nor fair ... but let's say the gardener didn't do it on purpose .