Hi I have a Celeste and brown turkey planted next to each other however up to now I have only have one fig which fell off. When I bought the two plants they were loaded with figs from the nursery. The figs I am dealing with mealy bugs this summer so I have been spraying with neem. The trees look pretty healthy. Today one of my friends had mentioned that you need a male and a female to produce. Is this true? Or it could be just that my tree is still adjusting since most fig trees here in Maryland around my area I have not seen too many crops this summer. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Celeste and Brown Turkey are "common" figs. This means they don't need another fig tree around to bear fruit. There are a lot of delicious common fig varieties. It can take a few years for a tree to hold its fruit to ripening. Search the forum for Celeste and Brown Turkey for leaf pics to see if yours look the same. Very often nursery and store-bought fig trees are mislabeled.

Hi Lovetogarden, figs do not need male and female. Both of your figs should in time produce good crops. You do not say if your figs are in the ground or a pot or how long you have had them. Your problem may be the neem oil. I have found that while it may kill bugs you have to be very careful with the dilution ratio.
The only time I tried it on figs it was at the lowest strength and of course that may not be fully effective against bugs.
I did use it stronger on some of my gooseberries which had sawfly caterpillar this year. It killed the bugs but I got no crop from those bushes.
Pyrethrum spray is a good bug killer and less toxic than others.

Thank you guys for answering my questions! I will wait and see what happens next summer. They are in the ground 🙂

Hi,
Do you water them? If you don't water them and you are in a zone with dry summer ... You may wait your life long.
You need to supply water to your trees for them to be healthy and hang on to their crop - at least one watering can (11 Liters/3gallons) per tree once or twice a week or even more if the weather is dry for a long period and your tree is loaded with leaves and figs.
A little less water and the fruit size will decrease; a little less, the fruits drop, and even less, the leaves will start to yellow and fall.