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This is Mavra Sika, my only Mt Etna. It's from the cuttings that the forum gave me. My rule about removing figs from small 1st year trees is if the tree is pushing out plenty of new green growth, I leave the figs on there. If there is not much growth, I pick them off. This little thing is growing great so I am leaving them on. This looks like it is going to be another one of those two for the price of one deals. Yay!

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Byadi purchased from OTBP a few years ago.

The branching further from the house and not pictured also has similar amount of figs. I wish I liked honey type figs more, however, they do offer a nice break from the berry types and are refreshing.
I am with you. Not a fan of sugar and honey figs but do enjoy them for a change every now and again. Going forward I think I will leave a few grafts just so I have some around.
 
Last year at this time these were all yellow and ready to be picked in a few days - probably going to be another couple weeks this year.

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Piggy bagging on our “other” discussion, did you not prune or lightly pruned this tree during dormancy? If so, I can definitely see what you’re talking about. I always wondered how to get so much figs on a short distance
 
Piggy bagging on our “other” discussion, did you not prune or lightly pruned this tree during dormancy? If so, I can definitely see what you’re talking about. I always wondered how to get so much figs on a short distance
I didn’t prune this tree at all before Winter. It was wrapped but still suffered some tip damage due to user error, so I only pruned off the dead tips. I’ll be chopping it down some this fall to clean it up a bit before wrapping.

Edit - my inground trees that are wrapped will be pruned only to fit better within the wrapping. I don’t wrap my Etnas and they are only pruned to remove dead/diseased branching in Spring. Per our other discussion, that process may change next year.
 
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