Sid,

Can you please provide photos of your trees, shots from differing angles, close up and long shots (full bush shots)?

Full sun, as much heat as you can give, and good, consistent care (especially proper yearly pruning), plus adequate watering is critical.

Growing early ripening varieties are extremely critical for us short-season fig growers.

Try this:

My Little Ruby, a super dwarf fig tree, pot grown in a 5 gallon pot, approx. 19 liters, only in its third year, and about 2' x 2', 60cm x 60cm, has about 20_figs left to ripen on it. There were about 60 figs total. The earliest ripening figs on Little Ruby started ripening on July 28. They are about 40mm, rather small, but extremely sweet and strong fig flavored.

It dropped all its 12 figs last year, its second.

None of my other 20+ pot cultured figs are this early.

If you try Little Ruby, and it ripens figs for you, that's a starting point for you.

Your fig trees may just be too young. Given time their habits often transform remarkably. They do crazy, young tree things until then: drop figs, grow no or few figs, ripen none before frosts, produce undersized figs, and poor quality and lousy flavored figs. It may be just a wait and see success, kind of situation.

Moses

Fig tree has 2 crops, First one is breba, it appears before leave out at early spring on old last year branch, and fig on new branch(wood) is main crop.

I live at Pacific north west, near Vancouver BC, Canada, where summer is cool, Our climate is quite close to UK. In our area, only breba crop is reliable, main crop is waste of time.

In my area, Lots of people grow " Desert king", green fig in ground, it has a big breba crop, fig is medium/large, about 5 figs = 1 pound, High production, 7-8 figs on one branch, and it can ripened its fig in first year young age with enough sweetness, There are few Italian green , and brown Turkey , latturula grow well here, However, Their tree need 2+ years old for reasonable sweetness figs.

My point here is that, pick varieties with big breba crop.

I has tried main crop varieties without early start, most of them fail to ripen their figs, Only varieties with smaller figs, like Florea, RDB, Improved Celeste, Hardy chicago ( Mt Mtna figs). I tried Hardy Chicago in ground, it ripened few figs last year, This year, It is earlier, I should get more ripened figs before winter, Florea, RDB, Improved Celeste figs should be 2 weeks earlier and they should be better.

People do not know how hard to get ripened main crop in cool summer area, I tried main crop for 3 years now, Do not waste your time on fig tree with main crop with big fig, they are eye candy, waste of your time. Some might ripened few figs, However, They taste bland at low heat fall.

Oh my gosh ! that would be a feast for me.

Beautiful !

You can always try to prune away the smaller figs and leave a few of the bigger ones. The tree can then concentrate on ripening the remaining figs. You get less, but at least you get some.