We have a few fig plants that have been in current location less than one year. Pretty good full day sun, in amended clay soil. This year the very tips on most of the trees are necrotic, dried up and break off leaving a white, dead-looking stem interior. Also they (even the healthy stems) seem to have become bulbous about four inches from the ends. This has been a dry year and we have not watered over the winter. Lower parts of plants look good and have buds that will probably produce fruit. Fruit last year was very dry and not very palatable.