I had experience with Marseilles vs Black that had 5 figs on the first year rooted plant. The cuttings were rooted in February and fruits started in late May and stayed until late July and then dropped. The fun started the next year with ripe fruits.

Hi H2.

This one may not qualify in the strictest sense but I think it's worth mentioning.

This is one of the local fig varieties I found back in the summer. It dies back to the ground every winter but shoots back up very vigoruosly and produces fruit the same season.

I acquired a couple of small pieces that had a very small amount of roots on them. The larger piece had about four nodes on it so I laid it on its side on the ground just in front of my front porch. I then covered it with a little soil & some pine mulch leaving just one node above the soil line. By seasons end this thing had sent one shoot up to more than 5' with at least 3 more smaller shoots down lower. It put on about a dozen figs but only a couple of them ripened enough to enjoy.

The other piece I had of this one was about 3" long X about 3/4" diameter and only had a few bumps near the base that resembled roots beginning to form (it had been taken from right down at soil level). It only had one node on it so I put it directly in a pot with just the node above soil level. That one node shot up to about 18" & even put on a few figs but they never ripened before frost.

The parent tree gets plenty of ripe fruit each year but also loses many green ones to the frost.

So this one doesn't quite make it into the category you are talking about H2. But I was rather impressed with how fast it shot up with some fruits developing.

Here are some pics of it:

A few Latarolla ,1  Marseilles vs, 4 out of 10 sals (genes), 1 vdb, 1 jh adriatic, 1 hardy chicago.  Possibly more  but cant remember right now.    

That's a great pic Gorgi. I am motivated with what I see.  I could picture my coming LW plant laden with figs for the 2011 season. Thanks to a generous donor in Canada.

My UCD cuttings arrived fairly late in the spring, but nearly all of them started trying to develop fruit at some point during the growing season. I removed most of these but often left a single fig per plant to see what it would do. I was surprised yesterday to see that the lone fig on an otherwise bare Violette de Bordeaux actually looked ripe, so I picked it and cut it open, and then ate it. Not quite ripe after all, and too small to be worth the trouble, but still an edible fig in December!

Thanks, Noss--I'm looking forward to seeing how it does in 2011 with a full growing season.