When can you cut fig tree back?

Leola Zakos
by Leola Zakos
When can you cut fig tree back?
  2 answers
  • Sharon Guzman Sharon Guzman on May 03, 2015
    Yes after it blooms trim cross branches and top
  • Dianne Ward Dianne Ward on May 03, 2015
    I've cut my mother's fig trees down all the way to about 3 feet high one autumn. They were taller than the garage and we'd have to have a ladder to pick the figs. They immediately put out new growth the following spring and had just a few fruit. The second year they were loaded with fruit.