No pruning this year

[Figneer]

I am basically leaving the branches as is except that I took few cuttings from certain branches, my goal is to see if the figs will form earlier than with pruning, my goal is for earlier production and not necessarily more production to ripen the figs earlier before the brutal summer heat dries them up, will see how it will work out

 

[bushdoctor82]

They look ready to go. Please update us on your findings at harvest time.

 

[MI.FIGS313]

An interesting hypothesis, I am in a cold zone, but would love to hear if there is a correlation between not pruning and early production. I remember Carlos Rivera does not prune his trees and have an amazing production, he always attributed that to his microclimate location between buildings, but wouldn't that be a find if it turned out to be the pruning and not the climate that enhance early production.
You have really beautiful inground trees

 

[TorontoJoe]

No pruning.... even minimal pruning would be a dream to me. Just no way to overwinter big trees here.

 

[TorontoJoe]

I'll be very curious to see how big those trees are at the end of the season.