Hi,

If you are going to remove 3 trees and heavily prune other
fig trees, you can save those unwanted fig cuttings and
offer them on eBay!

Let me start by saying congratulations. Just some thoughts, and no real answers to your questions.

You might want to wait a year before removing any trees. That way you will have an opportunity to evaluate the trees you have. You can taste the fruit from each tree, it would be a real bummer if you remove a stellar tasting cultivar.

There may be some trees which do not produce many/any figs, or there may be some that just taste washed out and bland; these would all be good candidates for removal.

Lastly, could be a sick tree in the lot. You could infect more healthy trees by mulching and or trimming from one tree to the next without knowing you had a sick/infected tree.

After all that, I don't know how big each tree is. But you can always attempt to move a tree which has great fruit if it is in a location you want for something else.

Just my thoughts, hope they were of some help.

Thanks for the thoughts. The trees are all the same cultivar (we think Ventura, large green figs, very strawberry in taste and flesh color). The previous owner kept just planting cuttings from the original tree around the property! The 3 to remove didn't produce this year and are in a shady, steep, and wet part of the property - not a good microclimate for figs, although they thrive on the sunny areas of our property. Nothing appears to be diseased (leaves, fruit, bark all looked great this year). Anything specific I should look out for?

If it all looks good, chop away :)

Can I use Fallen figs as Campos to mix in with my vegetable Garden