Can anyone help with how to prune this fig to encourage leaves/branches?

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I got this little miss figgy last year and other than repotting it over the winter I haven't done anything else. I feel I should have pruned it in the spring but I left it to see what it would do. The answer is - it's grown tall stems with leaves only at the ends! Should I pinch the garden growing tips out or should I wait until next spring and prune the stems down low? Thanks.

I've pruned mine to the base several times and it comes back better every time. Usually early spring.

Yours might benefit from a bigger pot.

I thought they liked smaller pots to restrict the roots? The pot looks smaller than it actually is in the photo, it's bigger than the one I got it in last autumn.

But I'm not massively keen on the pot so I think I'll repot it again this winter and will make it a bigger one.

It's finding a balance really, when it gets more bushy (as yours will if you hard prune it) it will benefit from a weighty pot to stop it catching the wind and blowing over.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/figs/grow-your-own

We've had fig trees in every garden we've had. I think its the pot. We always started them in a pot but once they grew we always transferred it to the ground. We've hacked ours down to a stump before as the wasps were really into the figs and it came straight back in the summer, bigger even.

Don’t take out the growing tips, they fruit on young wood.

what I’d do with that one is air layer it before pruning and end up with 5 trees

Mine looks exactly the same as that and I'm not sure what to do either (unhelpful) I have a very old one in the garden that isn't looking great anymore and thought I should replace. I didn't even know you could hard prune them.

If you prune it, don't you lose all the fruit as they start the year before.

I grow mine for the foliage not the fruit.

In Portugal they take a saw to them when the branch reaches about 6inches wide.