I thought I'd post a quick update on my Black Mission Fig Tree.  It was one of my first two figs trees I purchased in 2012 when it was already about a year old and about 5' tall.  Here's a pic from one of my first F4F posts back in February of 2013 after it had been recently topped:

 

Even after that topping, the growth of the side branching was very slow and I was getting pretty frustrated that in spite of being one of my oldest fig trees, and a good 3+ years old, it hadn't put out any fruit yet.

I had even commented that if it didn't start fruiting soon, it would be the first variety I would have actually "culled" entirely from the collection.

A couple of months ago, I chopped another two feet off of the top of the tree, pulled it out of its pot and "re-freshed" the soil mix and re-planted.

It immediately started putting out side shoots at the lower part of the tree (the existing branches still haven't grown much) and on the new growth, finally put out a fig.

It looked perfectly ripe today, so, after many years of waiting, I finally got to try my first home-grown black mission:

 


When I took my first bite of the Black Mission, my first thought was, "well, it's pretty good, but nothing special".  But, it was the after-taste that really "hooked" me.  The only way I can describe it is somewhat like a caramel after-taste that make this a very nice fig.

I won't give it a 1-10 rating since I haven't tried enough varieties to give a fair/accurate score, but I will say I'm glad I kept it!  

Looks nice, agreed glad you kept it. Hopefully you'll get plenty more in coming years.

Sometimes you have to put some fear in them to get them to produce for ya ;)

Very nice!

 Congrats! It looks amazing. "Good things come to he who waits"   I was ready to execute a few of my plants that looked like space aliens, when almost over night  they started putting out decent looking leaves.

I am glad you posted this... before I joined this forum, I was told that Black Mission was a good fig, so I found a person in Spokane who sold me a small one. it grew, slowly, and it is still very slow and small on its 2nd year. Smaller than many I rooted this year. Many people warned me that they are huge trees and take a lot of space... if that is the case, do they continue creeping in size, until one day you have a monster tree?  I have got no figs yet.  By your data, I should have one to try next year.