I am at 64 now. That should be enough. This will be my first year to taste most of them. Last year tried Celeste, green ischia, mbvs , hc, jh Adriatic. All were great.

I'm hoping to have maybe 10-12 varieties started this year. I miss my families/friends NY figs. Great forum and great to see some love of this fruit tree

Adolfo, from one former New Yorker to another, welcome to the forum. May you find that special fig that brings you back to your childhood.
Go on, start a new thread and introduce yourself. There are a lot of good people waiting to welcome you.

I made a garden bed today for the FEW I have.  And the survivors are: blk mission, brown turkey, LSU gold, genoa, Sal's, and Hardy Chicago. They are going in the ground on the east side.  I have only had one itty bitty brown turkey in my life so far.  but, It was fantastic!  That was in June 2013; I am waiting for the next one!  I'm beat from digging and tilling today.

I do not know... I don't know the number of varieties I have, nor the number of growing plants.

In the past year, not counting cuttings, I've given away over 60 in 1 or 5 gallon pots and destroyed a few that were so mediocre I didn't even want to give them away. I still have a great many left. Well over 100 in pots with many duplicates. This year I'm looking forward to tasting a great number of them and only keeping ones that I consider really good. I don't know what that magic number will be.

Problem is I love starting the cuttings. It's just plain fun. A rational person with this many trees would call it a day and be done. But I'm not sure I am...  either rational.. or done.

rational? what's that? after 50 th cuttting, i think that went out the window. after 200 th cuttings, i think other people can call us "certifiable" x)

I hear you Gina. I am close to my fig tree end-point(HA! but seriously...), but I love starting cuttings. I think even when I am done acquiring the varieties I think I need, I am still going to start a handful each winter just to give away. There's something about tinkering with and increasing the number of wonderful living things in this world really helps bring a little more light to the short winter days.

22, for now.

I just inventoried my collection last week...145 varieties/239 trees most of which are in 5 gal pots. I declared myself a hoarder...my sweet sis says I'm just 'enthusiastic'. ;-)

i was going to say i'm done rooting.. then noticed i already placed an order at USDA/UCD.. i don't even remember when i did that.. geesh.. 

I believe I have 3 in pots, 7 rooting, 2 pending trades, and 2 pending purchases.

Wow, this fig thing really does get bad fast, doesn't it? From 0 to 15 in several months.

My thought is to ultimately have a core collection of 5-10 tasty, hardy varieties in the ground and whatever I'm trialing will be extra. Have to keep from getting too big a collection to keep the peace at home. Unless I can get her into figs...then it's all downhill.

Great stories. I don't feel so bad about my many evictions now. All I am looking for is just one more!

Hi,
I have some 10 varieties but I'm short on space. I'll be removing a young cherry tree to make some place.
I see people from Turkey around here have some new strains. I at least saw three strains that I would like to give a try.
I would like to find some new dark figs as most of my last added strains are pale.
I'm thinking of "noire de caromb" or some other dark one. I'll think of a new spot for that one :) .
But for now, I'm already looking forward at tasting the strains I already have as I only started some 6 years ago and some winters and rodents helped me not having too much figs to taste :°°( .
Last weekend I visited the mother tree of my "unknown probably Brunswick" . The mother tree has brebas and mine does not !
It took the mother tree 8 years of growth to show the fruits - last year was the first year, and they all dropped ! Am I supposed to wait 5 years more ????? for mine to start fruiting ... That got me mad :°°°( .
I started another strain at the same time and the other tree has 5 brebas already ... Well, wait and see ! But selection is ongoing !

get figs that will taste good from the start. that way, you don't have to wait too long. i think there is a thread on that one somewhere... some figs do take 3-5 yr before true taste start to show. that's a long time to wait. 

Unless you have Martin's discipline, it is very hard for an addict to refrain from adding "just one more". 
At least, I am fortunate in having mine in the ground and acreage to play with! How do you northerners (and some Californians) handle so many pots, especially with the fig shuffle? Thank you for making me feel a little less crazy than some of you. Every little bit helps. :))

it's not an addiction.. it's an.. empowerment! one who dies with more fig trees win! i think jon won by default... 

1 Variety, 2 trees. Although I will be getting a second variety from a local fig fan in the near future. I found the forum while trying to figure out what variety I actually have and man did you guys open my eyes to world I didn't know existed. I do plan to add some varieties in the future, but I think I will stick to the sub 100 club :)

I wish i could resist adding varieties . made a promise to my self to keep me from growing other species, but i am not keeping it - started to grow more grapes, more loquats and jujubes.

Bump,
One year later...where are you at now?

I'm at 33 with a few more too early to truly count for sure. I thought I said I was done adding  ;)    This time for real, right? HA!

28 and a few more that I just rooted.  Still trying to slim down.  I need to taste more of my collection to weed out the weak ones.

too many to count!

Right now only 18. Then I have 78 cuttings that are rooting. I also have about 160-180 cuttings that are on deck and will hopfully have some of them started in the next couple weeks. Many are duplicates of course so maybe 80 varieties total if I have success in rooting this year. If not then at least 20 since I know a few have already started to root and sprout leaves. :).

246 with few dups...no comments, I already know I'm crazy. 8-/

I'm not even going to count.  I am so far behind already this year, knowing the number of trees and the number of new cuttings will make it that much more daunting.  I ended up with more cuttings to root this year than I was anticipating, but what is really going to kill me is are the pomegranates.  I placed a pomegranate cutting order with UCD for this year before I rooted the pomegranate cuttings I had received last year. I thought I would root them, but got around to it.  I have a buttload of pomegranates to root.

Calvin, perhaps we should form a Colorado fig collective.  Instead of us having duplicate collections, each would grow a unique set of varieties then share the spoils.