Pinching results.

[Moonlight]

I usually pinch apical buds as soon as I see breba figs are forming. It helps hold on to breba and also promotes branching.
This season I was late to do that. There was at last 3 leaves when I decided to pinch at last a few fig trees. I know I am opening this subject again as I know lots of members do argue that pinching doesn't help to speed up main crop forming. As one can see not one fig tree failed to form main crop after pinching.

 

[Figneer]

From my very beginner and very limited experience with fig growing , every time I pinched a branch it pushed figs on every node. I have been pinching my tree the past 4 years but decided to stop this year because I wanted larger branches. I still have a lot of figs this year but they formed much later so, in my experience I agree with you.

 

[Bofig]

For me pinching has mixed results. Zone 4b and last frost of may 5, if we don’t see figs by first week of July they won’t ripen before first frost usually. On some in ground trees I pinched and some responded with figs 2-3 weeks later while others just branched out many times and continued growing. I’ve had similar results on potted trees but my trees in containers usually have figs showing by end of June without help. Didn’t notice a change in brebas but I know my container figs need a bunch of new growth from lower down if I want to maintain size and have new growth for next year so I’ll cut or pinch once the brebas are close to ripening.

 

[Uncle Jessup]

I read an article that stated pinching help produce fruit embryo/growth, but for the NEXT season. So this years pinch is next year's fruit. This makes sense and is what I've found to occur. Pinch creates branching which in turn makes fruit (next year). Not trying to argue here

 

[Figneer]

I read an article that stated pinching help produce fruit embryo/growth, but for the NEXT season. So this years pinch is next year's fruit. This makes sense and is what I've found to occur. Pinch creates branching which in turn makes fruit (next year). Not trying to argue here

Also this year I heavily pruned which allowed more new growth and produced heavily this year but also increased water so these things combined seems to work for me for fruit production