the middle of last month I pinched all my figs before leaving on a long trip. Now I am back and looking at my figs. Everyone one of them as baby figlets growing in abundance! I think every branch I pinched has little figs on it.

If you are not yet pinching you really might want to give it a try.

Really worked well for my LSU Gold. Did nothing for my Black Italian.  

Never pinched my figs before, are you positive it really makes a difference in numbers of figs developing or is it the rather them growing faster?
I noticed figlets on my col de dame, unpitched. In terms of branching, it makes a difference on my other trees and schrubs like apple trees and berries of all sorts. For instance when I pitch the blueberries end of may, resulting in more shoots appearing a few weeks later, I get more fruit the next year because fruit grows on one year old shoots.

I tried it 3 weeks ago after really understanding how to do it. Just pinch the end terminal bud. Worked awsome.

How is that, do you mean you get more, bigger or better figs in the end? I'm trying to understand why I should do it you see.

Most man domesticated plants benefit from pinching.
Even cucumber need to be pinched after seventh leaf first and again after forth leaf.

Works great especially if you want them to ripen earlier.

I went on a pinching spree myself.  Fig embryos appeared everywhere on the trees that are very active right now.  The slower growing trees still show figlets, but took a little longer for them to appear.  Pinching is key to speed up the process!

What's the difference between pinching and pruning?  Or are they the same?

I just did my pinching!

Some of my breba figs are getting quite advanced now.  Curious if pinching a terminal bud on a breba producing fig will affect the current breba figs? 
Will the brebas drop off or is there little shock to the branch by the pinching and should not affect the ripening breba figs?

Great info about pinching.  I'm going right out to pinch my Chicago Hardy's and Main crop figs.

My question is this true for all varieties of figs.   I assume it would be more relevant for the main crop figs.  Would it be helpful for Breba crops too?  When would you pinch to encourage more Breba figs?  
Thanks

It has been such a cool, wet Spring I just don't feel my figs are ready to be pinched yet.  Even though I'm in zone 7a my in-ground figs still haven't fully come out of dormancy yet. My impression with pinching is that you have to wait until a decent amount of new foliage has been generated before it is wise to pinch.  I think last year I pinched around the end of May or early June.

A word of warning.  I just dissolved my thumb nail pinching figs.  I guess nail cubical doesn't' like the Latex.  I was pinching away and noticed blood. . .OWEIE1
I'll use scissors for the rest of them.

Thanks that's helpful.  I pinched all the smaller trees that were in the basement.  They were in a small High tunnel Green house for April and then outside in a protected alcove so have been growing for a couple of months.  The big ones (in Whisky Barrels) stay in the garage and I was too busy to shuffle them this year so they just got out a couple of weeks ago.  They are happily leafing out but I'll wait for more new growth on them before pinching them.

Like the video, I bend the tip. It just snaps off. I'd rather call it snapping than pinching. I've done this for many years, really seems to promote fig formation. I stop by July because Figs that form after that usually dont ripen before cold season sets in, in my garden.
Daniel
SW Washington State
Zone 8a

I pinched all of the 2nd year trees, and a couple of the younger ones.  They did get figlets shortly after, but I wondered how many of them I'd have gotten anyway.  But I wouldn't have seen any branching without having done it.