My husband found a fig tree last year near a goodwill store. Rather, the tree branches extend way outside the peoperty wherevit was planted. It looks uncared for and its huge! It looks like its in a vacant lot but its hard to really see everything since there are a ton of branches all over the place. Anyway, I posted this info last year but i cannot find my post.

Last fall I took cuttings from this tree so I have some cuttings that rooted nicely & are growing now. Today I finally went back to check for figs & the tree has tons of figs. Most i cannot reach but i managed to get a few. I had to get on the hood of my car but i did it! A few of the really ripe figs fell off & over the wall jbust as I was pulling the branch down...darn!! I just about had a nice big, juicy, ripe fig & it fell off!!

The fig looked very pretty to me. The skin looked transparent. It was very thin. It reminds me a little of Sweet Joy, which is on my wish list. Its a vety good tasting fig. I havent had enough if avatiety of figs yet to describe the flavor i just know it was VERY good! Of course, the birds always peck the ripe ones! I will keep going back once a week to pick a few figs. I am hopeful that I will figure out who is the owner. Anyway, yourt houghts are appreciated.

Great find,nice pics. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful fig meg, great find.

Wonder if it needs the wasp

Leaf pics would be nice. Looks like sweet joy too me.

Really nice fig!

Certainly looks worth growing, Meg. Nice find, I wonder if it is a common.

Does it look like it could have been planted? I believe Armando found a fig really similar.

Smyfigs: where do you live to find such great figs growing randomly?

All I can find around town are Brown Turkeys.

Looks fantastic. I love the exterior color, Meg.

Great find!  Those are some good looking figs, I really like the coloring.

What a great looking fig!
You need to find out where the original immigrants came from that brought these figs to your area.

Nice looking fig and great find! Hopefully you can find out who owns the tree and maybe the story behind it.

Thanks, All! I havent been able to come on the forum today just a crazy busy day.

I dont know if its common or if it needs the wasp. I hope to go back to this tree in the fall to get cuttings. This thing is huge! And I think either the city or someone chops off the branches that hang over onto the easement/alleyway.

It does look like it was planted. However, I cant see exactly where. Hard to describe but on one side it looks like an empty lot where an old camper sits. There is a slab so maybe a house was torn down?

On the other side is a house that looks run down a bit and I can see over the barbed wired wall only enough to see a huge trunk but not enough to see if the trunk is on one side or the other. But it does look planted. I need to go around to see if i can see the tree from the street side of the house. I will give it a try next week.

I live in a college town. We have something like six colleges & universities within the city. There are tons of planted fig trees around here. what I did last fall is I just drove around looking for trees. I got permission from a church & got cuttings from a tree that is aparently a caprifig.

I took cuttings from a good number of large fig trees without knowing what to expect. All of the trees with the exception of the church, are unknown to people nearby. This Goodwill fig is a really a beautiful fig that is excellent tasting. I still have three other trees to go check back on including the tree that had ripe figs in January which was totally odd! That one is near some restaurants & in an area that is pretty old so i cant wait to go check it out soon.

Yesterday i tried to upload leaf pics but just failed. Finally I cropped the pics enough to be able to upload them.

I will keep you all posted!

yummy

I haven't noticed this thread before.

What a great find, Meg. The figs look beautiful and judging by the juicy interior they should be very good tasting.

Good luck finding more information on it.

Beautiful figs!  If I saw a fig splat on the ground I'd still eat everything that didn't directly touch the ground.  The ones that fall off on their own are the best.  :)

Yowza Meg. Those are some beautiful Figs. The color is amazing! And there is nothing so vexing in my book, as seeing a ripe Fig you can't reach! Best of luck, Jodi

Gorgeous green color and delicious looking interiors. Thanks for the pics and updates.