Can too much rain cause no figs.  I have a brown turkey - third year in ground.  Does not get winter kill.  Now 6+ feet tall.  Had a few figs on it last year, but squirrels/birds got them.  Earlier in year (before my trip), it had a few brebas, but during trip they dropped.  Now nothing.  Am I too anxious?.  The other tree in ground is a little Celeste.  It got winter kill, and hasn't sprouted from roots yet - might not!  We've gotten a lot of rain this year, and of course last year (big, big flood). 

how many hours of light is it getting? How much fertilizer (if any) are you giving it and how often? Any pics?

you need to pinch the leaders out every 6 leaves it will make the tree produce fruit instead of producing new growth. Just pinch out the main spade like tip. The embreyos will mature and the tree will branch out from the area you pinched at. This is considered active growth pruning for fruit production.

Squirrels got them - they saved you the disappointment.

Ah satellitehead, there you go blaming them innocent squirrels again!  And if it weren't probably true I'd probably be laughing.  Although they haven't gotten the apples yet - about the size of golf balls, but I know it's coming especially since the pear didn't set all that many pears this year. 

Here is a pic of the tree - right now getting about 7 hours of sun a day - mid morning to mid afternnon.  And a 16"-18" hackberry had to die to get that much.  Oh and a small willow oak (the trunk to the left of the fig trunk) had to bite the dust..  Only place in my yard that might get more sun is the middle of my driveway.  No fertilizer. 

It's a shapely looking tree. On the possitive side, it's good that you are not fertilizing it. For a 3-yr old BT tree, it is a little small and slender. The bare limbs and long internodal distances (except for the ends) leads me to believe that it is not getting enough sunlight. I have BT cuttings that were just rooted in late December that already have fruit forming the length of the cutting. Unfortunately, not much you can do about that but move it. In the pics below you will see a parent tree that was getting a few hours of sunlight each day. The other pic is of a cutting I took from it. The growth you see is from that same year since the cutting was killed back by winter freeze after it's first season.

Hackberries are weeds anyway.  We have them all around our house.  They are so prone to aphids which dump honeydew everywhere, leaving a cloud of sooty mold underneath all of them that are nearby.  It's such a joke.  I'd have killed the damn thing too.

I don't hate them that bad!  But I don't have many more on the property except one.  That one is huge and probably not long for the world.  It's 50' to the left of the fig tree.  It quite possibly saw the Battle of Nashville in the Civil War.  I live on the Confederate line or between the Union and Confederate lines of the second day of the Battle of Nashville (depends of what map you look at) before their retreat South. A huge limb fell 15 years ago during a big ice storm and the tree has been slowly hollowing ever since.  The limb when it fell took out a mulberry tree, barely missed a swing set and nicked the corner of the deck. 

I've got figs.  Very little ones albeit, but I have figs.  I know for those of ya'll with 8,000 trees, that isn't much, but I've got this one tree!  The other one hasn't sprouted yet - it may be DOA.  I did pinch out all the growing tips - maybe that did it, maybe I was just a little anxious - maybe just a little Breba Envy!  Yeh, yeh, I know it is just a Brown Turkey, but it is my only!

congratulation's caneyscud!

great looking tree hope you enjoy the figs it produces.

Caneyscud--Nothing at all wrong with a Brown Turkey and that's a pretty little tree, at that.  :)

What is your other tree that you said may be DOA?  I hope it isn't.

noss

The other was marked a Celeste when I got it from the 'Orange Big Box".  Did not know how cold hardy it was, so had it in a pot for 3 years, taking it inside in the winter, until my wife said - no more plants in the house.  Has borne figs, but squirrels did the harvesting before they were ripe.  Planted it outside 3 years ago.  Then the way my luck goes, that winter was the first in several years we had below ten deg temps.  Died to the ground and resprouted I believe in June.  The next winter same thing, but put up a small sprout again that grew to about 18".  This year died to ground again, and hasn't sprouted yet.  For some reason this tree has attracted mole's attention.  Maybe they have disturbed the roots too much.  Possibly like a rose I'm trying to keep alive.  It is from my MIL's (now deceased) yard.  My wife wants to keep it going.  Had two, both doing well for 10 years up till 2 years ago.  Then moles moved into that bed and the aftermath is that one rose died, the other barely hangs on and almost lost a tree peony.  Last year, I babied that rose and kept it alive.  This year the lone one old cane sprouted a few leaves, but then a new cane appeared and got to be about 2 foot tall until Sunday.  When walking and surveying my plants, noticed that that cane had been chewed/cut off near the bud union.  Whatever did that took the top foot off somewhere but left me two neat 6" cuttings.  I was going to take cuttings of that cane anyways, but I have no idea what animal did that!  It's almost enough to make me give up growing things and go to making BBQ all the time to console my bruised green thumb. 

Hackberries and non fruiting mulberries are nothing but overgrown weeds. Eliminate them, they serve no purpose.

Awww Canyscud,  Don't lose heart.  What a sweet thing to do, trying to keep the roses alive like that.

Could people in mole country possible plant their trees in a cage of fine wire to protect the basic plant from moles?  The roots would spread out beyond the wire.  Maybe that's a dumb idea.

Don't give up on your plants.  There are ways to get rid of moles--Go get 'em, Guy!  :)

noss

Yay, I don't think it is dead.  Here's a terrible iphone pic of a leaf sprout far down on last year's growth (you'd think with all the great cameras I have, I'd use a good camera!).  In poking around in the ground, I found out that it had been completely undermined by a mole.  Will have to baby it for a while.  Or maybe dig it up?