I just ran across a fig website in Thailand the other day that is filled with pictures on the main page of figs (some from Adriano's site), prepared fig dishes and some miscellaneous photos. What I just discovered today were some links to some very good photographs documenting his operation. (they were not initially apparent)

http://suanpupunpom.com/

or click on the Google translated version here http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=th&u=http://suanpupunpom.com/&ei=FCKESv6wNJWQNrzlyNIE&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522growing%2Bfigs%2522%2Bgreenhouse%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN%26start%3D140

Deeper searching of his website led me to these links - The first link is a PDF file describing his figs. By putting this address through the google translator, you will get some idea of what is being said, although it is not a perfect translation. Be sure to look at the original to see the pictures.
http://suanpupunpom.com/Data/390-49.pdf

The second link is a SWF (shockwave flash file) that did open up in my Safari browser. It is filled with photos of his plants http://suanpupunpom.com/Sakda/sakda.swf photos


The third link http://suanpupunpom.com/Fig/sermrat.swf (also a SWF) is the jewel of his entire site. There are some fabulous photos documenting his fig growing operation outside and inside his greenhouse. It appears to be a very well taken care of collection.

The fourth link http://suanpupunpom.com/amnat/amnat.swf did not open up completely for me for some reason. If someone has any luck with this, please say something. It would only load %98 and then stop loading.

The last link that I discovered http://suanpupunpom.com/Fig/dray.swf (another SWF file) shows pictures of some dried figs.

Enjoy,
Ingevald

What great pictures and information. I've seen people question weather you could espalier figs or not. Well they've taken it to the ninth degree in those pictures. I was wanting to try something myself because of limited space and now the wheels in my head are spinning. By being staked and so low to the ground seems like they would suffer a lot less when we have hurricane force winds. I was looking at what they called the old method which is more like what I had in mind. I don't have enough room or possible the inclination to even try their new method. Another plus perhaps for you gardeners in the northern part of the country, is grown close to the ground like that, it would be easier to cover up for the winter.

Ingevald,
thanks for sharing the links.
It was nice to see what someone can do with fig plants. The greenhouse looks like he built himself, the pots the smaller ones with what looks like dragon figure on its side i have seen similar pots without the design go for a large sum of money here as they import them at this 1 nursery by me.
What caught my attention also was the rather large cement inground pots in greenhouse, if those actually are full pots they would way a ton apiece, or perhaps he made just a rim out of cement for some reason. That family sure keeps busy with that operation. I did not see any type of labels on the plants i wonder how he knows which is which having that many.
Thanks again.

Excellent find, thanks for posting it. Goes to show what good warm weather and a lot of space can do for fig growing.

Thanks, your posts are always so informative.  I really enjoy all them.  Thanks for the kind words in the past. I have been very busy lately. Ciao

Hello,
I appreciate the thoughtful comments on the fig greenhouse in Thailand. The way that they are pruned is certainly interesting. From what I can tell, the sides of the greenhouse are some sort of netting, although the roof is likely plastic or something to keep rain out - I noticed what appears to be small watering hoses. The netting obviously keeps out insects, birds and other critters. No need for winter protection from what I can tell.
I also noticed the large concrete "in ground pots." I was curious about this but noticed in some of his pictures that there were some unused concrete culverts in his yard and I assume that they did not have a bottom enclosure. So, they may be bottomless concrete containers.

Thanks for the comments on this interesting place.

Ingevald