Hi turbo,
Well, lets face it, a figtree can't change from "common fig" to smyrna or to caprifig.
It is born as a "common fig" or a "caprifig" or a "smyrna" or a "San Pedro" and it will always stay like that forever ...
So I would imagine, that the tree was grafted, and that you cut under the graft causing the original root-stock - the caprifig - to surface again .
Perhaps, two stems were grafted and two were not ...
That is a bad problem with grafted trees . If one doesn't know that the tree was grafted and cut under the graft ... The grafted strain is lost ...