Concerning propagation: just slap an air-layer on there! As long as there is enough growing season left for the layer to build sufficient root mass for separation (usually around seven weeks, though depending on conditions, this can vary; you want a good number of circling roots before you attempt separation) and subsequent establishment in its own pot before winter (another several weeks), it doesn’t matter when you do it. This winter, I put four air-layers on a fig I really wanted backups of (it was under grow lights): all took and one fig became five! You can buy commecial air-layering pods—or simply make 'em out of water bottles. You can score the layering site to expose cambium and apply rooting hormone if you like, but it’s generally not necessary with figs. Usually, just contact with moist medium in warm conditions is enough to induce rooting on a branch.
EDIT: And btw, four layers ain’t diddley squat. Be sure to check out this pic of extreme air layering by @hoosierbanana in the above thread. That one always makes me smile. 
Aren’t figs amazing?