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Looking for trees or cuttings please help

Hello Fellow Fig Fans, 
I want to grow some of what several forum members report are SOME of the best tasting figs.
If you have cuttings rooted or not I would very much appreciate some and am willing to pay a reasonable fee for the following trees/cuttings:
 
1. Smith 
2. Hollier 
3. Black Maderia 
4. Black Marseille VS
5.And / or any other excellent tasting fig
 
I cannot find them affordably priced online so I am left to ask around and hope that someone will have pity on this slightly desperate fig addict.
 
I currently have the following in containers: 
Panache-Striped Tiger Fig, Violette Du Bordeaux, Alma, Papa John, Black Mission, Cordi, Dessert King, Chicago Hardy, Sals G, Italian Honey Fig, O'Rourke, Green Ischia, Kadota, Brown Turkey.
 
Just in case you are wondering:
 
Thus far, I've tasted the Alma (Mildly sweet. Got one ripe fig that came on the tree when it shipped to me), Papa John ( Slightly stronger sweet flavor than Alma thus far has borne well in it's first year in my possession of this young tree), Chicago Hardy (Yum! Nice berry fruity flavor! I have young tree and a cutting from a nearby park), Kadota (mildly sweet, sort of watery wet-ish not my favorite but I'm thankful for it because it bears faithfully and a fresh fig is better than store bought anyday), Brown Turkey (Has a mildly sweet but pleasant fig flavor. Generous amount of pulp. Very large figs bear faithfully-again not my favorite but I like it better than my Kadota).

I also posted this message on another forum so, I'll let you know if anyone answers. I am willing to share. 
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Welcome to the forum. Hang in there and post a few times, let us get to know you, then in the fall many cuttings will become available. Looks like you well on your way to a nice collection. Perhaps you can offer scion of your trees for trade.
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Welcome to the forum Potatochips
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Welcome to the forum.
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Welcome.  There is quite a bit of opportunity for trades during the winter, since that's when most of us prune our trees.
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Thanks for the welcome!

I've been joyously lurking these boards ever since I found it last year. 
It's so nice to find people who love figs like I do. 

It's a strange obsession but, I think that fig collecting helps to keep us out of too much trouble and is a health sustaining passion- then again, racking up a backyard full of fig trees might be a little troubling to the unsuspecting fig lover's spouse eh? 

Nah, deep down they love figs too ;)
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Welcome to the forum potatochips101!  And as long as your spouse likes figs too then he / she will just enjoy the fruit of your obsession. 
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... And as long as your spouse likes figs too then he / she will just enjoy the fruit of your obsession. 



And if they don't then more figs for you! :D (that's the way I look at it)

Welcome!
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Ha!  No such luck in my house. 
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That's right Sophie, but only if the kids don't find them first. They like every fig they find on my newly bearing young trees so mama has to be quick. I do enjoy seeing them all happy-all four of them- sharing our one or two ripened figs it I'm not sure if it's sad or sweet... I figure that is my duty to raise fig fans and by the reactions of children I think I've done my duty maybe too well...
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I think that''s great! Kids should be started early in knowing where their food comes from, and even better if it's right there in the back yard. One of my early memories was of my Dad picking figs and sharing them with me! :)
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Sophie , a couple of my grandsons thought that food only came from a grocery store ! That was until we got them involved in our garden in FL . They were awestruck . The 5 yr old just wanted to sit in front of the strawberry plants and blueberry bushes and wait for them to turn red and blue ! He had helped us plant them and didn't want to leave them.
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Welcome to the forum.

goss
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Welcome to the forum and the addiction! I'm just a little curious where you have been looking for trees. There are several online nurseries that sell fig trees for reasonable prices. What are you considering reasonable?
Jon has links to them all in the beginners thread.
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