Somewhere around 18 months ago a friend gifted us what looked like two dead twigs. They were in fact sticks cut from her fig tree. We stuck both in soil. One had a bud that looked hopeful. The other just looked like a dead stick.
After a few months the bud that looked hopeful slowly faded away, and the associated stick died. The other stick had looked like a dead stick since we got it, but after a few months grew a bud, then a twig, then a small tree.
Today it has one single fig on it. Hoping to get our first fig ever, and trying to discourage small furry criminals from stealing the one fig, we have covered the plant with one of our largest cages (just taken from a blueberry bush now that blueberry season is over).
We are hopeful that we will get a fig. The small tree spent last winter in our garage which seemed to work out okay.