So the trunk on this guy starts off straight(ish), but then veers off to the side.  Should I replant it deeper (maybe in the ground) and cover up the first part with soil so that the (currently) tilted trunk becomes straight?  Or should I just treat it like a side branch and it will all even out as it grows bigger?  That was originally my plan, but I'm rethinking it because it looks so "off", and I know that you're supposed to have a straight base trunk for maximum nutrient flow.  Or so I"ve heard. I've got a few trees with this issue.  Suggestions?  

 

Personally I like the shape. Notice  that the side branches should fill in and balance out the tree but that's only my opinion. That said you could prune down to just above your first tall leader (the one that reaches up that doesn't have leaves yet) on the left, to get a straighter look. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

If you don't like it I'd air layer the part you don't like and plant that so it's straight.  You can keep, sell or give away the plant you like least.  There are lots of youtube videos on how to a/l and there are instructions here as well.

I think it has a nice shape overall, I would replant just a bit straighter though, not much straighter... in another year or so that fig tree will look amazing.
I have never heard of the angle of the tree trunk having an impact on nutrients, lots of people train their trees to split low (18") to promote sideways branching, I think yours will be fine.

Thanks for the advice!  I think I"m too lazy to do anything about it right now, but I'll watch the growth and decide when I repot them in the fall. :)

My five year old Brown Turkey is at a jaunty angle too, so once the season is over I'm pruning it to go in a different direction (I have several branches with lots of figs on them so this season I actually may get to taste one).

Kelo, yeah, that's partly why I don't want to do anything immediately...I hate to interfere with branches that already have figs growing on them! :)

I got a fig from France just over a week ago and it had one nice big breba fig on it. Yesterday, as I was changing connections on a hose in the greenhouse, I saw a large green object rocket passed me....it gave me the exact same feeling as snapping an orchid spike that was about to produce its flowers since the last time a year ago...

Sadness.  :(

To say the least LOL. At least you might get a second crop of figs but you may have longer than a year for the orchid to bloom again. Only twenty of my orchids flowered this year and they all got the same treatment but my house, in another week or so, will be astonishingly colourful! lol

Nice, you are clearly a more accomplished gardener than I am! :)

Steady LOL I'll post some pics of my tiny back garden that was nothing but grass thirteen years ago when I moved in. It's only twenty yards by twenty yards but I have two bee hives, fifteen fruit trees, hostas, tulips, a gunnera, foxtail lilies, lilies, roses, black currants, red currants, rhubarb, wasabi, jasmine, vitis cog., kiwis, bamboos, eucalyptus trees, buddleias, horseradish, gooseberries, peonies and hydrangeas. I think that's it. :D

I have my own "leaning tower of fig". Recently I asked a very wise, experienced grower about how to deal with this very same issue.... His advice was a question. "Why do you care?"

Is the tree producing for you? Is it healthy? Does it matter that it's leaning?  .... Even if it leans a little to the right ;-)   

TorontoJoe:  Ha, that is a good thing to keep in mind!
Kelo:  Awesome!  Sounds amazing!  I have a large back yard, but way more grass than anything else, sadly.  I do, however, have 12 young fig trees, 10 of them in pots.  I've counted over 60 breba figs so far (which is what I need in my cooler climate), a HUGE improvement from last year! My strawberry patch is looking good this year, and I"ve just planted some raspberries.  Have some young paw paws, seaberries, and a persimmon that have not produced yet either.  It's coming along slowly.  I did plant a bamboo hedge on two sides of the yard.  Love it, but man, it's a lot of work.

This is my back garden at the moment. I've been burning a LOT of highly flammable eucalyptus branches to let more light into the garden hence the incinerator. Everything is greening up nicely but in another few weeks I'll post a few more to let yo see it in full flood as it were.
 

Nice, that looks very productive!

Thank you. It can be. I'm not getting why some trees are covered in blossom and there are others with not one single flower on them. They all get fed and treated the same but I get a feast or a famine. This year I'll be sleeping under the cherries to get them before the birds do - I may dress like a cat.

Ha...good luck!