Sid,
Stop teasing,let's see the "Big Dig".<G>

What? You mean my "Parabolic Preto Pit Greenhouse"? :) I will post pics of that when it is packed full of Preto fig trees, which are growing awesome btw. ;)

Uh,yeah,that one.The PPPG,empty,in macro,would be nice.By the time you stuff it with figs
the design takes the back seat.I've seen a couple of Preto somewhere but I've never seen a parabolic pit greenhouse.<G>

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I will be going to USA in April and ever since I have paid for my flight last month, my husband kept on saying no more figs, no more figs to me. What if he sells all my figs when I am not around? I have to start all over again haven't I? What a better excuse to buy fig cuttings right? No no I am not a fig addict.

No worries Norhayati, just go on a binge $$$$ for higher quality figs & weed out the so-so. I think I can help with some
cuttings. My trees still in the packed green house and garage. Black Maderia is difficult to root. Have U try grafting?
I may have a spare BM. I hope you have RdB. It is excellent.

Figgysid1: can we see a pic of your currently planted in ground? Im curious about what that would look like:-)

Addiction may not be correct, an addict usually dosen't try to involve others in their addiction nor do they write about it on a public forum.  Its much more sinister  "mind control".  It seems to happen when a live, not dormant, fig is taken in to your home.  The end result is you must propagate the figs.  you cannot discard any cuttings from pruning,   You know the rest of the story as you read on the forum.

My fig inventory is 5 pots 2 years old going to 3rd year now, 4  1 year starting 2 second year and 6  varieties in the refrigerator now.  and I may have exceeded my available space.

Bill E  Maryland

I guess I am really addicted to growing figs. Cant throw away a single large ice coffee cup used by family because I know I will need it to pot up a cutting! Wife and kids think I am obsessive about my figs......but I bet I am not alone. I stopped objecting to my kids purchases of large flavored Starbucks iced coffees because I actually wanted the cup! Dunkin Donut clear plastc cups work just as well.

Barry
Long Island

I'm afraid some of you are going to end up at the airport giving pamphlets to strangers entitled "How Figs can Save Your Soul", and trying to get them to take a cutting home to root. 

Someone is already handing out pamphlets that say figs doom nations.

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Paul, thanks so much for the offer. I failed to grow BM twice. I might take your offer and will do the grafting instead. G6 will trade me with his RdB when he has done some layering.

Harvey has successfully grafted many BM. 

I have a small urban garden, with what promises to be too many fruit trees. I have more figs than anything else.

But I've only got five fig trees.

Don't kick me out of the group. Someone has to have the least.

I don't know how many trees I have. It is a lot. I'm afraid to count.

I am looking to add a few more reliable, tasty and productivity breba only varieties. I know they are 
here in Vancouver. 

First time posting ;-)

Yes, I am a wee bit (totally) interested in (crazy obsessed with) rooting cuttings.  Even though I've only eaten a few fresh figs in my life, I love the way the plants look.  I've seen some beautiful container plants, and that's my goal, to have a bunch of potted fig plants trained in many different ways.  Plus there's the added benefit of getting such a nice fruit so soon.

Last year I ordered cuttings from Ebay and got 6 out of 10 plants going.  They were Mission, Kadota and Brunswick.  This year a friend of a friend let me help clear her patch in exchange for any salvageable wood (she likes a neat look and always cuts down her patch, which dies over the winter and regrows in the spring).  I told her if I got any plants going I'd give her some back and she'd have nice gifts for some of her friends. 

Wanting something green to look at over the winter I started a few, and then a few more, and then a few more.  Baby fig forrest describes it well.

After much trial and error, I'm now using a plastic bag too to handle the cuttings after they either start showing roots or leaves, which 90 percent of mine showed leaves first.  Here are a couple pictures:

 
Oh, the things one can do with some plastic wrap and a Seal-a-Meal!

(Chicago, Zone 5a/b)

I'm not an addict. I can quit anytime, figs just make me happy.

Hi my name is FigGuy125, and I am a fig addict! I had my first fig about 2 years ago. I was stopped in traffic at a road construction site, and there was a fig tree right next to my truck. I jumped out and grabbed a few figs to snack on, I was hooked! Since then I have collected cutting from roadside trees, trees around where I live, and 2 that I bought. I now have 5 trees that are about 4 ft tall, and about 30 cuttings! I also have an added bonus at my work, I work for an irrigation company so I have access to lots of orchards, trees.

Access to lots of orchards is definitely a bonus.