I live on a Southwest suburb of Chicago and about 20 years ago a friend gave me a fig tree but did not know the type, it was given to him. I tried to post a picture and tried all I read on help tips but was unable to, I was hoping someone looking at the picture would know the type. The leaves have 3 sections and a little curve toward the stem. Since I got this tree I propagated into 2 more by just cutting the base suckers with a good amount of roots, planted in light soil and kept it moist and in 3 years they started fruiting.I root prune them every 3 years cutting about half of the roots from bottom and sides and replacing the soil with Light Soil that comes in bags. The big tree is in a half wooden barrel and the other 2 are in large pots. I fertilize them weekly with a weak solution of Miracle-Gro and water them daily with 2 gallon water each and so far I never had a problem. They are loaded now and usually ripe in September.In winter I store them in my attached garage after they loose all leaves and go dormant.

I love this website and I wanted to post one myself,I hope soon I will be able to post the picture.

Thanks to all for the educative comments

franco