Why Your Fig Tree Grows Only Vertical Shoots and How to Encourage Fruiting Branches

Q: I planted a Brown Turkey fig 4 years ago—never a single fruit. It's a giant shrub, 10 ft tall and wide, beautiful foliage. How to prune? So many "trunks" from ground!

Let it grow as it wants, perhaps larger. Plants have an urge to reproduce... your fig will do whatever it takes to put on fruit (for you) and seeds (for itself).

Eventually it will produce horizontal branches giving figs.

If you prune continuously it will never fruit because pruning shocks it into unproductive juvenile growth.