Encouraging fruit on a fig tree

[Zjho]

My fig and its cutting clone sibling are of unknown variety but don't do the breba overwintering fruit bud thing over here in Cornwall, everthing drops off the stems.
Most years they fruit quite well if left to their own devices, leafing March / April and ripe fruiting August / September with some fruit dropping off unripe either side of that time.
Last Autumn a neighbour recommended removing ealier fruit buds in Spring which hasn't paid off with noticably better fruit now but to be fair the super hot dry summer may have skewed results and will try removing again next Spring. Ripe fruit are very sweet.

[ameno]

Since removing all of the main crop fruits back in late August the tree has now put on some new growth and appears to have some tiny embryo figs growing (about the size of those tiny red lentils at the moment), which should hopefully be next year's breba crop.

[mrsbusy]

I met someone on Saturday from Oxford who said they had a huge old fig tree which produces prolifically every year - they never remove the figlets!!

[ChingfordHarry]

I have a Marseille Blanc in a pot which only produces ripe figs when I move it inside over winter, then put it outside again once all chance of frost is over - so towards the end of May at the earliest. Marseille Blanc is one of those varieties that "is supposed" to produce in our climate (though less reliable than Brown Turkey).

On GQT Bob Flowerdew has often said you should remove anything larger than a pea in the Autumn in order to get a crop.

The figs on my outdoor figs (on the allotment) are all in the process of mummifying and falling off anyway - these are another Marseille Blanc, a Brown Turkey and an unknown Italian variety (the parent of which produces well for the donors) - so I probably don't need to worry about picking off the figlets now...