Pruning Figs for Size, Shape and Production!

We've been successfully growing figs here in the desert for over 10 years and we've learned a thing or two when it comes to pruning them. Today we're showing you several ways to prune them for size, shape and production!

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[darylpas]

After watching you guys for many years, I am no longer afraid to heavy prune any of my trees. I have about fifty fruit trees. I inherited two massive fig trees about 15 feet wide by 15 feet tall. I have started pruning them back. Also, there is a fig farm about 5 miles away with over a hundred fig trees.

[adamschaafsma]

Yeeesss!!! Fig pruning! Really well done with the before and after shots, perfect execution!

[janetspiritofthelivinggod]

Thanks, guess I'd better get fig tree pruning! I wrapped them all for the winter in southern Utah but I still have some die back, but none to the ground as far as I can tell. All are still quite dormant and fingers crossed we won't have a late spring freeze like a few years ago. Thanks for the nudge.

[nekoDan]

Informative as always! The before and after images with the varietal name was helpful. Hopefully you guys will have a fig tasting after the fruit!

[MWinklerBooks]

Thanks for the informative video as always. :)
I was gifted an old fig tree in a huge pot last year. It has a massive trunk that was cut off about 3 feet tall. When we got it there were a bunch of "suckers" growing out of the soil. It's got a few leaves on each of those suckers now, so I missed my pruning window for this year. Looking forward to removing that dead wood and get started training it properly

[mctechies]

Looking forward to your next update this year on your moringa trees once they are out of dormancy.

[AbidAli-bvgl]

Excelelnt video. Good teacher best pruning figs trees. I bought fig cutting from FIGAHOLICS . From cuttings I grew couples of fig tree . I will put in ground this year

[charlieboring]

In northern VA I have a Black Mission and a Celeste. The Black Mission figs taste great and the Celeste, not so much. I had a Brown Turkey that had a great flavor, but it was killed back to the ground each year, so I took it out. I have to use the six and pinch method to get fruit to set early in order to get a lot of production.

[kevincharles]

I used a term "secondary scaffolds" to a neighbor when describing the pruning strategy. Prune the trunk to get 4 scaffolds, then next year (or 2), prune each scaffold to get secondary scaffolds. Essentially, you're getting 4 NSEW branches at the end of each of your NSEW initial scaffolds. I keep those secondaries about eye level, and try to do the entire tree that way ... gives it uniform shape and all the production is in the same vertical area.
I remember you catching a lot of grief, back in year 1 or 2, from people telling you that your pruning style will kill your fig trees. Guess you showed them. You have a forest!

[michaldurana]

I have no many experience with fig pruning and therefore is very interesting and inspirative to see pruning such big fig trees. Here is too cold to have so nice and big fig trees, we use to have them in pots during winter time and after three years is possible transplant them in the ground, but with heavy cover, maybe like your Moringas 😊😊😊. Main crop will never get ripe, because of short vegetation period 😢

[desertdanblacksmith]

Howdy Folks! this will be the 3rd season on our farm for the inground figs on the farm....I trimmed them back to that chest high and tried keepin the branches to for stemmed goblets of new growth....I have one fig still in a bucket for 5 yrs....it is my attempt at "Fig Bonsai"....😅

[jesurunblends]

awesome video! do you have a video on trimming a Key lime tree properly to bring it down some? or do you already have a video already?

[gtl]

Hi, Thanks for all the great videos, love your channel. Following it for 5 years now.
Is it possible to purchase fig cutting from you please? how can i contact you?

[lyndeer]

In Louisiana my Me Maw had a giant Celeste fig when I was young. The family took cuttings when they moved and kept them in the family for 50 years now. I planted two 15 years ago (AND HAVE NEVER PRUNED THE HEIGHT). Needless to say they are at least 15 ft tall and have very large trunks. I eat what’s at the bottom and the crows and other birds get the tops for me. How would I go about pruning these trees to reduce the height without killing them? Your video’s are by far the best out their. Thank y’all for sharing your journey.

[margaretmarshall]

Love your very clear and instructive pruning videos! Very helpful. BUT…you two sure are sacrificing a lot to fight that Olympian fig tree’s clear preference for a bush shape! Not quite sure why you are so determined to show that tree you’re the boss. Is it the rattlesnake thing? Anyway, it does look like you will get there yet, and it’s your decision to make. I enjoy Lazy Dog Farm’s fig videos too, and he lets most of his figs bush out. He’s in the southeast, so it may just be his personal preference or it may be the different soil and climate parameters in his part of the country.

[pumelo]

It is worth mentioning that such a "deep" cut is only good for varieties that do not have "breba" and have a very long growing season
so that the figs ripen on this year's branches.
I understand that you are in very good climatic conditions there, but people who lived in hard zones 7-8
do not have this option. Although there are very early varieties, but even these do not ripen well outdoors in these zones, so it is better for them to have varieties that have "breba".😉

[wildcat]

I have a question. I’m in Tucson, AZ. How far I can grown my semi-dwarf citrus from the concrete wall (from the root trunk to the wall)? And how far from each other?? Google says 6-8 feet from wall to root trunk and 6-8 feet from each other. Can I do 3-4 feet from wall to the rổ trunk and 5 feet from each other? I have multiple varieties

[katherinegray]

We're in Florence Az zone 9 and our figs are starting to break bud. Can we still prune them?