I have a new kind of problem.  I have about a two dozen varieties all roughly the same age and its only happening to one type of fig for me.  A Lebanese Abyad I rooted last winter.

I spray my trees with neem oil/light soap solution to keep moths and aphids off.  This is an attack on heartwood.   I just sprayed it with a fungicide.

I don't have deer, but squirrels, possums or racoons aerate the soil in my pots every night.

Im looking for help from some google fig thugs.  What do I google?   Is this a bacteria?


 
 

Looks like rats to me.  They have almost ruined any progress my Verte would have had this year.  You can see scratch and bite marks on the bark.  They have systematically removed whole branches and nibbled off the growth tips of many.  Poor tree is working so hard to repair the damage it hasn't grown at all this year.
Voles will do the same thing.  Ground Squirrels same.

Get some snap traps and see if you can catch the varmint.

Suzi

I'm with DesertDance, looks like rodent damage, squirrels have done this to mine.  

Takes a long time to heal, on the bright side yours isn't so bad, and it will heal.

Hi,
Just clean the trunk, keep the trunk dry (if raining, try to protect the tree from the rain), and see if the trunk heals .
For the rats - by dry weather - put some gypsum (powder) around the pots. The idea is the rodents will walk on the gypsum and get that on their feet.
Because they like to be clean, they will lick it ... and more than likely, you won't see them again ... If you see their holes, put gypsum there too.
I wouldn't worry for those wounds . But, I would avoid to get new ones, so use gypsum and all traps you have.

Suzi, Don, JDS,

Thank you for the feedback!

Its bad enough the rodents are eating my apples, now they want the baby fig trunks.

I'm gonna armor my figs now.

Thanks again.