Fig trees are amazing!
After planting some fig trees last year at my remote property, I just left them alone all summer long and was happy when I saw that some still had green at the end of summer, but in late fall it appeared to me that most were Dead. Today upon close examination, and after many months of being away from the property, due to an injury, I discovered that many were still alive.
This property floods after heavy rains, but within a few days the clay turns into concrete, but this has not prevented those trees from struggling or trying to adapt to stay alive especially that I did not fertilize or do anything over there for over a year.
I would have to review my file and check the names of the ones that have fought the elements best.
I know that there are a couple of Sicilian varieties and among them, one called Africana. Some had a lost tag and became unknowns to me.
I saw that approximately seven or eight varieties out of about fourteen were still alive.
Despite the hay field not been mowed for many months, I decided to take some photos that show how resilient these trees are. In most cases the original five or six foot tree was totally lost and most of the new growth is from root suckers. It should be interesting to see if these could develop into large shrubs or trees after a few years without any irrigation.
I will post more photos after I do some light work and when I get a chance.

Those plants look good. Hope they make it for you.

Hey Sas, good for you! You are right about our favorite fruit tree they are " Tuff as nails"...Good luck with these trees bud! : )

Yesterday my neighbor bailed the hay, so I had a chance to check on my trees and expose them as the brush had them totally covered. I had to really look hard to find them.
I also managed to kill a couple of them by accident using my brush mower.
I have'nt been on the property since June and did not do any work in this area since last year. So after two summers of no human interference and no irrigation, Here's the current condition of my trees.
I'm not going to count the tiny trees that never had a chance. I'm referring to two year old trees that were planted during the spring of the previous year, and spent two summers in that filed.
Those trees were originally about five foot long on average.

First of all most of them totally dried up when it came to the original trunk and the ones that are still alive are suckering around the base of the original tree.
From a total of 19 trees, 11 are still alive. Alive at this point means that I saw a few green leaves on the suckers.

The ones that made it so far are Tashkent, Lemon Fig, Magnolia, Africana(Scicily), Improved Celeste, Unknown, Black Mission, Beers Black, San Vincenzo (Scicily) and another two Sicilian trees. 7 trees out of 11 do not need caprification for sure while the other 4 are questionable at this time.

The best looking tree was the Tashkent. Against all odd it is the tallest today. The most aggressive is the Scicilian Africana with multiple suckers. My next move is to to do some more cleaning and add mulch this week. I will probably replace the dead ones soon and add some fertilizer next spring. There was no sign of fruit on any of them.

I intend to build some cages too as the deer managed to rub few of them trees too.

In another remote area of this hay patch I had planted two fig trees, a BT and a Kadota. After three summers one of them (not sure which one at this time) is still hanging on also without any interference, but it is only three foot long.

I'm unable to load pictures at this time, not sure why. Will try at a later date.