Hopefully it is a common fig. If it is then it can take that long if you are fertilizing and taking good care of the plant. Cut back or eliminate fertilizing this year. It helps to have a good mulch and that will provide all the nutrients the tree will need. Keep the tree well watered, but not wet. Taking too good care of a fig can make it go vegetative and delays fruiting.

There are figs that need to be fertilized by wasp that only exist in some areas of California. But if you got the tree in Texas then it should be a common fig.

Thank you! I have never fertilized it I think except maybe when I first planted the tree with a little of the Miracle Grow soil mixed with regular soil. Should I fertilize it this year or add mulch?

if it is growing well, just add the compost. I get more rain than you and have to add a little fertilizer. And the fruit will come on latter in the year. They are not like peaches and plums that bloom out before they get leaf out. FYI, what you eat is actually the bloom. Figs are a really interesting plant. Sometimes you will not see the fruit buds until June are even later.

Hello when your fig tree starts to grow again pinch the ends after 4 leaves that will encourage the figs to start forming hope this helps you.

Guys I will ask again I am sorry. My LSU purple fig tree is really big and green on its 3-4rth year or so but no fruits whatsoever. It is frustrating. Any ideas why?

I have a Brown Turkey fig in North Alabama, zone 7a and there enough figs for us, everyone else, the birds, the squirrels, the chipmunks, and probably any ET's. Plant a Brown Turkey and stand back. The first few years, there weren't many, but now......

ETA: I don't do anything at all to it.

Do fig trees need full sunlight?

Yes, the more the better.

If the tree is growing big and green and not producing fruit, is getting too much fertilizer. I can get a fig to fruit in a one gallon pot because it is slightly stressed. Without a little stress the fig will not produce well. I gave someone an LSU fig about 5 years ago and it is now big and producing a lot of fruit. Sometimes it takes a little while to produce. If it was a cutting, it will produce faster than one that was tissue cultured.

If I remember correctly when I planted the tree around 3-4 years ago I used some Miracle Grow mixed in the natural soil but still that was many years ago to keep it from bearing figs now.

You are correct, what you applied years ago would not affect what is happening now. I do have a question. Do you fertilizer your lawn. Sometimes that can affect them also. even if it is a little ways away. Fig roots can go a long way. But if it was tissue cultured. it can take about this long for them to start fruiting.

I fertilized the lawn last fall but no even close to the LSU. I went ahead and asked a nursery place and they said likely it has not matured yet and could happen any day now since I've had it for 3-4 years could take up to 7 years for maturity.

THXDTS11 is it possible to post a few pictures of the plant in question so all can see the node spacing on your plant.

Sound like this plant is aggressive in its vegetative state and needs tip pruning to help push it into the fruiting stage.

But if that is the case once tips are pruned one should prune any new growth in that area otherwise it will keep elongating its branching with said new growth.

Six hours or more of sun is good for a fig plant .

Martin

Here is a photo.

Rycooder posted good advice about pinching the very end tip off you can do so with your tallest branches shown in 2nd picture in corner of that fence and a few others.

Anything that sprouts at the pinch area afterwards rub those off as well when they first emerge.

Keep an eye out looking where the fig leaf meets the stem for little bumps to emerge sometimes 1 bump sometimes 2 bumps .

The bumps then turn into into leaf or fig sometimes double figs sometimes 1 fig 1 leaf.

Your plant looks healthy although you have quite a few young juvenile growth you should consider taking out all but say 5 of you thickest branches this dormant season .

Please let us know in time what your plant does after you pinch a few branches paying attention to those particular ones to see if they start to produce in a few weeks.

Martin

I went ahead and pinched some of the branches at the top and on some it oozed a little white milky stuff. Did I do it correctly?

The tree has full to partial all day.