and it's not even time to take them outside yet.
How can this addiction take hold so quickly?  We
had to take a road trip to Atlanta and decided to
check out their plants while we were there (they
are much bigger than the ones available here) so
we figured we'd get a roma tomato and some bell
pepper plants (then I had a co-worker who wanted
three tomatoes- got those too), but I couldn't leave
without checking for fig trees.  There were three
varieties that weren't in my Lowe's when we were
there last weekend.  So now, in addition to my
Hardy Chicago, I have Black Mission, Brown Turkey
and a Celeste.  DBF thinks I'm crazy (I don't care-
he knows me well).  I have to get two more pots
but I think I still have time before they are ready to
go outside.  I have what I think is the perfect spot
picked out for them.  They will be along the garage
wall (faces south) so they will get sun pretty much
all day.  I am going to make the 5-1-1 mix from Al
(tapla) on GW and use it in my pots.  I'm using little
pots this year, and probably the next year or two-
they are roughly 3 gallons, I think.  I don't know about
fertilizer, other than 3:1:2 as the proportions- but
anything that reduces down to 3:1:2 should work,
yes?  12:4:8 diluted to 1/4 strength would reduce 
to 3:1:2 as I understand it.  I have more plans but
could someone just critique me to this point please? 
I really am new to figs and I want to give them the
best care I can.

Just be sure to label the source of the tree since big box stores like lowes and home depot tend to mislabel. If you ever give cuttings to others it is vital they know you got this at a hardware store until you 100% confirm it is what it was labeled as.

I'm going to make cheapie labels out of pop cans- the name of
the supposed variety, where I got it, the year I got it, anything
else? 

I tried that gritty mix.......DID NOT LIKE IT!

Pami, I understand you delimma!  I already have 75 fig trees outside in containers and 47 planted in the ground.  Went to Lowe's two weeks ago.  They had 6 fig trees out back near the registers.  The labels stated "Brown Turkey" and cost $9 bucks.   But they did not look like your normal greyish brown trees.  Some of the trees were dark green and some were brown.  Well, I know these places mix up labels a lot!  My gut was telling me these trees were mislabeled and are not BT figs.  So I got 2 of the green ones and went back later the next day for 2 more!