I have a Blue Celeste that is growing in the ground. It has dropped figs for the past two seasons. I am assuming mine are dropping because the tree is still too young. My tree definitely gets enough water. The few figs that manage to ripen are very good.

Dan

Hi Wild_Forager
from my experience only - here are a few things that have caused fruit drop on my plants.

Stress ie: lack of water or too much prolonged high temps.

Root pruning without trimming of canopy - tree cannot support more than its root system can handle and will drop fruit as i have experienced the following season. Lesson painfully learned.

Genetics - i cant say this is absolute i just go by what i experience with fig plants . I had fig tree from Italy i propagated the scion and was 4 seasons old and took good care, tree was very healthy but produced 1 normal swelled dark type fig that i ate. All others would drop each season.
I got rid of it.
Martin

Any Celeste will drop some fruits if grown in pot.
If in ground,it will drop a few about half of fruits when Young as Dan explained,but when it get to be an adult (inground),I have many reports,that it does not.
I stopped looking for Celeste that do not drop any fruits,because I realised,it is my fault that I am not patient enough to wait till the inground Celeste become an adult 7 years old tree.

Thanks for the advice. There are now fruit ripening. It dropped maybe a dozen and a half figs. I seem to recall this happening the previous two years though I quickly forgot once I was eating fresh figs. I think prolonged high heat and lack of top pruning may be partially to blame as both of those have occured. But all looks good now. Thanks.