So I am talking with a few of my co workers about growing fig trees.  I gave out a few because at that time I had started so many cuttings and was successful last year.  This year not so much.. Anyway, other co-workers heard and said "You didn't give me one!" 
Oh, my!!! What have I started? LOL!   So, I do have some in the fridge waiting to be started.. But  my track record for rooting this year has not been great (that's why they are still in the fridge) What do I do?! 

We are in the same boat...LOL My rooting success went downhill. My family was tired about me talking about figs all the time. Now that they are in season they bug me for figs...???

Life is about sharing. So, if you can share, please do. Your co-workers will always remember you for those cuttings you've given them.

Wait til they kill the tree you gave them and ask for a replacement

Yeah I want to share little plants with lots of people but I find that everyone has a problem, no one wants to fertilize or prune containerized figs or doesnt have a garage for protection, no one wants to wrap an in ground tree during our suddenly harsh winters. It would be a shame to nurse a little plant along only to have someone kill it from neglect. People think its just water occasionally and collect your fruit. Where do you get all these co-workers thinking they know how to care for figs?!!

Unfortunately figs are not maintenance free plants.

I gave away a 2 year old tree last year.  The people have barely watered it, not fed it and it is still in the same container and looks dismal.  They said they don't have a new pot to up pot it.  I am thinking of asking for it back to try and save the poor tree.

Lesson learned; don't give a fig tree to someone that doesn't know and has no intentions of learning how to grow a fig tree.

Teach them to fish and give them cuttings this fall to root on their own.

Whenever I give something away, or even when I lend money, I always had the attitude that the amount given has to be something that I would not miss if I never saw it again. Even as a teen, I had this philosophy. So the fig would have to be something that I would not miss, even if it was neglected. You can always reward those who took care of the plant by giving them another.

Tell them the first ones are free but like all good dealers you sell each one for more than the last one.

I sell my plants at work. If someone wants one I'll bring one I for them. Same ( bargain) price for everyone. No favors asked no favors given.
Same goes with me. I don't ask for free-bees. I'm willing to pay good money for my plants or cuttings.

I don't replace the ones people don't take care of, especially for those that say, "...oh, I'd like one...".
I stopped bringing figs to work because everyone wants the fig tree that grew those figs. If you give them anything else, they will ask why their tree didn't produce the same figs.

It's never ending...

This is an interesting thread.  I've given out several free trees to friends, co-workers, and neighbors.  I don't know of one that is really thriving but I'm only aware of a couple that have died.  I found that one I gave to a friend about a 1.5 years ago is a very skinny whip about 15 inches high sitting on a screened-in porch where it gets very little sun.  Basically it is being maintained as an ornamental.  It's sibling (growing in a 5 gallon SIP in my yard) is nice bush about 5 ft high with 40-50 figs on it that are just starting to ripen.  I always try to hold myself back from asking about how the tree I gave them is doing because the reality is usually that it is not doing well.  Still, I don't regret giving them the tree.  The one friend that has had the most success with the figs I gave her planted them in the ground almost immediately and did enough winter protection to keep them from totally dying.  You have to really love a tree for it to do well in a container.

I've given away many fig trees, and only ask for the container to be returned. It's sad when one dies of course, but as soon as it leaves my care, it's on its own. It's just so much easier to give away plants when you don't have to worry about them anymore.

Many of the trees I've given away are those I've now tasted but decided they were not 'keepers'. I sometimes feel a bit guilty about that.. but it's better than just tossing them into the green waste can. Eek!

I think I will give them the cuttings with instructions. That way I won't be disappointed if I can't root them.  Maybe they'll be more successful.

Hi Smaritza,
For me, this is a mid-term thinking .
In 2012, having lost most of my trees, I had no propagated trees for sharing.
In 2013, I was throwing to the waste some root-suckers, and then during the winter, people making winter propagation slowly converted me to their religion because seeing those small things take off is indeed fun.
In 2014, I decided that each root-sucker removed would go in a pot for future action, I ground-layered some and just pulled some that I knew would come out with roots already .

For now I had to tell neighbors that I didn't have any spare. But as already written, I want fair deals. If they have a fig-tree I'd rather go swapping then giving away.
Most of those people wouldn't take the tree if they had to pay for ... Curious people...
I know of a fig-tree from the "unknown from the Italian" strain that had 4 fruits and the owners didn't go take them. The last fruit I brought it to their kitchen one day that I was at their home ...
Yes, figs won't knock on the door when they are ripe... You've got to move your ... and go fetch them yourself :P
That particular tree is the syster of my own 2012-lost ufti, and the mother of all the ones I have ... Unfortunately that tree due to lack of cares is not close in terms of production to her daughters.
Well, I for now gave one to a neighbor and I saw on Sunday that the half-rooted root-sucker made new leaves so it is alive and growing.
Of course in ground, the trees have less issues than potted ones .
I need to go talk to some neighbors about swapping some trees. I'm not going to have 20 uftis in my garden ... I'd rather have different strains, for having different tastes ...