Climate and soil.
Fig tree is a deciduous, and subtropical. It favours area having arid or semi arid environment, high summer temperature, plenty of sunshine and moderate winter. The plant has better threshold limit for temperature than for the lower. Although plants can survive temperature as high as 45`C, the fruit quality deteriorates beyond 39`C. Mature trees can withstand temperature up to 4`C, but young ones need protection. However, deciduous nature of fig allows the plant to resist temperature as low as- 10`C, when in dormancy. In mild climate, plants remain evergreen, lack well defined flowering and fruiting season, and sometimes produce long barren limbs.