Though not as complicated to prune as other fruit trees, it takes some practice to learn the art of pruning fig trees. First, Renquist strongly suggests growing your fig as a multi-trunked plant. The plant’s natural tendency is to branch, so why fight it?"

He writes, “The biggest thing people do is try to grow them with a single trunk,” he said. “You don’t need to. With two or three trunks, you can keep the tree lower and have the fruit easier to reach. There’s a lot of fruiting wood if you have multiple trunks.”

He offers other suggestions for pruning at this website: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/2016/08/don%E2%80%99t-be-fooled-figs-grow-fine-western-or...

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