i guess your right frankallen lol. I guess should start with how i first encountered this magnificent plant. Well , it was about 15 years ago when i first visited my grandmothers house in Mexico .There she had a giant fig tree that reached the third floor , with hundreds of figs on it. it funny how you could smell the unique scent of figs from 20 feet away. i remember picking lot of very big green figs that were so sweet that you couldn't stop eaten them . since the tree was next to the stairs which spiraled upwards you could pick even from the tallest branches . Every since that day i loved figs ,which for some reason can't seem to find locally? fastfoward 12 years ... i find myself looking at plants at my local lowes to find FIGS for sell . i bought the biggest one and planted it as soon as got home. only to have it die that winter ... or so i thought. out of nowhere it starts growing new shoots to grow twice as big as when i bought it.that season i only got 3 small figs before it went dormant and died off. this spring i cut all of the dead branches off and hoped that it once again grew. Well i tell you what, it grew to about 12 feet with lots of branches and this time it has tons of figs. i pluck about 3 or 4 a day .