What's the second picture?

Esmerelda,

What variety is the tree? What zone are you?

Here's what I would do:

For additional pruning, I would wait and see until when the dormant buds have broken all over the tree, and the new green shoots have grown at least an inch. Then you will know which branches are alive and vigorous. The fig tree is currently in a state of transplant, root, and stem pruning shock. It may take a while for your fig to shake off the stress and start to grow. Be patient...no hurry.

Be careful not to overwater. There are no feeder roots there to take up water. If the soil gets waterlogged, roots will rot. Keep it barely moist, on the dry side, but not bone dry. When growth commences then water, but only sparingly, until a good root system of feeder roots developes.

I would let no more than 2 new shoots remain on the tree per gallon of soil in your barrel. Pinch off the rest. Pick the ones you let grow very carefully. Space them out evenly. Figure out how many gallons the barrel is, then multiply that number by 2. That is how many new green shoots you let grow. Pinch out the rest.

If the barrel is 25 gallons, then let 50 shoots grow. Even less is better while the tree recovers.

After growth starts in earnest, not before, fertilize with a liquid feed every two weeks. For the first couple feedings use half strength, 1/2 tablespoon per gallon of water, so you don't shock the tree. As you see the tree respond, up the feedings to 1 tablespoon of powder per gallon.

What you did is a drastic thing to your fig tree. It will take a lot of TLC to succeed. Fig trees are pretty resilient, so that's in your favor. I wish you success.

Moses

Dirtyguy50

the second pic is a shoot coming out.. I’m guess

Thanks Moses. I’m in Massachusetts zone 6B no idea what kind of fig. Just know my mom use to get many every year.

I'd get in there and clear out as much of the dry dead sticks as you can now before there are delicate shoots in the way, maybe see if any of the thinner suckers will pull out... After the tree has grown a little more, select around 7 new growths from soil and do your best to remove the rest until they stop growing later in summer, choose the best of those 7 next year to keep. When fig trees die back they respond by sending up lots of suckers and become weedy and unproductive. Just leave the larger dead trunks until rot weakens the wood enough to knock them off with something.