Neil hope this helps
Typically, a fig tree tree takes several seasons before it produces figs. It may produce two fruit crops per year. Figs ripen at different times of the growing season, depending on the tree variety and the growing environment
planting a black fig tree in the spring of 2011 and it did well last summer and produced a lot of fruit. To our surprise this spring, it has developed small figs all over the tree, but no leaves. Is this normal behaviour
Thats probably the breba crop on plant this spring .
Some plants get 2 crops.
A breba is a fig that develops on a common fig tree in the spring on the previous year's shoot growth. In contrast, the main fig crop develops on the current year's shoot growth and ripens in late summer or fall