Pruning a fig tree is really a personal thing—everyone approaches it differently. Some people prune to shape the tree, some to keep the height manageable, and others to make harvesting easier and more enjoyable. It also helps to understand whether your variety is bifera, meaning it can produce two crops (a breba crop on last year’s wood and a main crop on new growth), or unifera, which produces only a main crop on the current year’s growth. Knowing this can really guide where—and how much—you ch