I've been up to my ears with work, travel and kid this last couple of months and have been all but dormant on the forum etc. 

Someone local to me planned a seed/scion swap less than 1.5 miles from my house this weekend and I was urged to attend as "the fig guy", so I showed up.  I was stoked to get a chance to meet F4F members strudeldog and heymikey there.  I suspected heymikey was coming, but didn't know I'd get to meet strudeldog as well. 

Either way ... Nice to meet you guys, hope we get a chance in the future to meet up and show off each others' collections.  You guys have way more property than me, so mine probably won't be as impressive.  ;)

Nice!  And Jason, whenever I hear someone refer to their child as a "kid", I get a mental image of a GOAT.  LOL

Jason,

Was good to meet you guys and some others as well. You will just have to move out of downtown into the country and get all those potted figs into the ground, and then I’ll get you hooked on persimmon. As more of a general fruithead then a fighead I know my fig collection will never be on a par with yours and a lot of folks here. If you get frustrated with the plums and their pest issues let me set you up with a low care persimmon with no pesticides around the baby and fruit you will actually get to eat.  I half expect I will be pulling up my plums, pluots, peaches, and be out of stone fruit except for my sour cherries in a few years.

Yes Indeed, It was great hanging out with you guys. It's great fun to share our experiences growing as well as a few cuttings. I think a few new figheads were born today at the swap too. Not that I was excited or anything : )....but I already have a few twigs in my spare bedroom/rooting room titled  Satellitehead and strudeldog cuttings. Jason don't despair about your planting area, you can plant all the figs you want at my place... as long as I get grazing rights! I once lived in a downtown loft and was limited on space. I had plants in the driveway, the roof, all the windows. I'm lucky I wasn't a fighead then.

Michael

I'm totally open to putting trees on your property, guys.  Just let me know what, when and where ;)

Can you count me in on your next event?  I am local too...  Way OTP, but "local"... 

That's ok, those guys are way OTP also, I think I'm the only one stupid enough to live in the heart of the city ;) 

The scion swap event was planned through the Atlanta_Fruits Yahoo group.  Click on the link to join the group ... as long as your not one of those douchebags that's always getting your email account hijacked ;).  Someone on the list had theirs hijacked the other day (weak email password or something) and sent out a link to the entire group that attempted to infect the computer of everyone that clicked it.

The group is low-traffic (less than a dozen posts per month, usually) and mostly comprised of Atlanta folks, but we have people that live 2+ hours away from Atlanta that post from time to time.  There is discussion of having a yearly grafting class and scion swap around this time of year annually from here on out.  We'll see if it happens.