A friend returned from a trip to Afghanistan.
He brought me some dried figs, says they are from a small tree that grows in the desert.
they are tasty, even my 18 year old daughter, who thinks fresh figs taste like sweet dirt, likes them.
sweet, a lot more flavour than the dried ones available from Turkey, kind of minty.
Any way. i thought i  would play around with growing some of the seeds and am wondering
what is easiest /best way to get the seeds out?
just soak in water and separate?

Thanks

only fertilized figs would sprout...so, unless that wasp got in there with male polen, there is no fertility- and if it sprouts, it will likely be a male tree and will not fruit.  I tried hard and read a lot about it, seems like in laboratory some caprifigs sprout. Well,  mine never sprouted-girl flower cannot sprout. 

Normally when saving vegetable seeds,the good seeds sink and the bad ones that you discard float.

Scrape some of the 'gluey' seeds into a cup with some water.

Let them 'ferment' 2-3 days and then wash them up.

Usually 'viable' seeds sink to the bottom
which also helps in cleaning-off other floating fluff stuff...

With fresh figs, I spread the fleshy part on a paper towel, like jelly, only very this. When the moisture dries out, most of the seed can re rubbed off easily. Rehydrating your figs might allow the same approach.

I got seedlings from Turkish dried figs I did like Gorgy. Bit half fig soaked in warm water for 24 hours then played with the gooey paste with my fingers and separated the seeds, maybe soak them an extra day

In a 3 gallon container, I sprinkled fig seeds (using the fermenting method to sort out the viable ones) combined with fireplace ashes onto potting soil.  I kept it damp and watched for a month.  Nothing, so I gave up and put 3 rooted hardy Chicago cuttings in there, stuck it on the drip system in the warm summer shade of the vineyard, and I noticed a fourth fig in there.  It's leaves look nothing like Hardy Chicago.  I do not know what it is.  It's a seedling and it came from some store-bought Black Mission. 

It's definitely a seedling.  It has the first two leaves that all seeds have, but they are huge, so definitely figs.  I may bring that entire pot in the house and not let those go dormant.  Not sure what to do.  Never hatched a fig seed before!

Suzi

I did what gorgi suggested before and I still have those seedlings growing (calimynra)

how long does it take from seed to tress that's big enough to put on figs? i know there is no way to tell if that seed will even put on figs, but seems like something interesting.

Thanks to all for the ideas,
so into the water for a day or so of soaking a few of those figs will go.