Hi all. I wanted to finally introduce myself.  My name is Eve and I have been lurking on the forum for quite some time.  My first experience with figs was when I used to watch my Nana bury her fig in a trench each fall.  I live 30 miles South of Buffalo, NY.  This is the best forum and I thank all of you for your valuable info.  I have learned so much from all of you fig lovers.  Jon, your work here is the best! Thank you! This forum has helped me to gather 14 varieties of figs.  7 fruited this season.  A special thanks to Herman2.  My 6 year old BT tree had only made a few fruits ever.  Herman's suggestion to pinch off the tips changed that.   The  BT and others fruited prolifically.  BT, Mission, H.Chicago, Negrone, and LSU  Gold were  full of fruit.  I want to post pictures as soon as I figure out how.  I went fig hunting all summer and have gotten cuttings from several local new fig friends.  There are large populations of Greek and Italian and Macedonians here.  I met some really nice people and gathered some cuttings.  Isn't it great how figs bring us all together?  I seem to have caught the fig fever!  

Hi Eve, welcome to this big fig family. Sound like your collection took off with a bang. It'll be interesting to read you future posts. You make me glad I'm in Texas! Buffalo?(BBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRR!) Again, welcome.

Welcome to another member from the north NE. May most of your figs always ripe before the inevitable frost. Everything else is just preparation for this cause.

Eve welcome from the south land, near the coast in Louisiana. I'm glad you have found many friends because of figs, I've made a few myself. It's a common cause. It's good to see that you got your trees to produce so you can enjoy the fruit, isn't that what's it's all about. Looking forward to your post about your trees and adventures with them. Oh, and don't forget the pictures. Make us drool.

Wow Eve, you are a true fignut with 14 fig variants already & more on the way. You will be busy & welcome to the fig club from West Coast  Canada.

Welcome to the forum Eve isn't it crazy how addictive figs are. You start with one before you know it you have 10+.

Warm welcome from Chicago .
My grandma also with my uncles buried their fig tree 3 blocks from Midway airport many many seasons back.
I grow them in containers.
Look forward to seeing pictures in future.

Ciao Eve, Welcome.  Glad to see more of us ladies coming on,  Not that I want all the guys to feel bad ( They know I love them all :)))  I have so many new brothers and Uncles on this forum.  You will catch the bug with figs, yes they bring us all together, there is hours of conversation you could sit at a table and have with figs and all the different varieties over a cup of coffee or wine or a beer, whatever your fancy.  You will make lifelong friends here.  We should have a yearly fig forum reunion someplace central one time and get us all together in the same room or outside, I think it could be like a class reunion or a family reunion.  I'll cook the food!!!!  Welcome Eve.  Ciao

Fig forum reunion, that would really be fantastic. But I hope I would get a year notice so I can save my money up and buy those new, high price hearing aids. My old ears and the aids I have now just could not handle all the conversation I would want to hear. My little Italian wife is a excellent Italian and Cajun cook. She would fix something really good.
J.A.

Maggie,

You might as well have the reunion in San Diego. At least we won't be shoveling snow, regardless of the time of year. Bring your surfboard.

I think that if I visited all 50 states, that I would have a fig friend(s) to visit in 30+ of them, and a few foreign countries, as well.

Ciao Jon,  Bring my surfboard!!!  you will never catch me on one of the shark dinner serving platters!!!  I hate deep water. If its too much for me to drink, I'm not in it. I love the beach though to lay and get suntan, I got soooo dark one year while laying on the beach in the Mediterranean. I love to look at the ocean and the waves, but I don't like the hungry fish that lurk nearby. Hey, the shark might be in the mood for Italian that day!!! 

JStall, I know me and your wife would probably cook wonderful food together. I have never really eat Cajun, but heard is good. I like my Italian, Greek and Spanish food, some Chinese, and I have just found a love affair with Curry. I make Curry this and Curry that, for me the hotter spicier the food the better. 

Italiangirl, you sound like my daughter. I do not know how she has a stomach anymore. You can have the curry. Not much I do not like but that is one I am not crazy about. We all landed in Louisiana from Palermo. That is why we can cook Cajun, well my great grandfathers landed there, not me.

I up for Cajun Lasagna. Seem like a good "fusion" style whose time has come.

Im not picky i'll eat jsut about anything that does not move and is cooked so sushi is out for me.
I just need to bring the heartburn medication as i think growing up eating pizza and everything everday with red sauce did me in, course everyone in family i can remember always carried a roll of rolaids in there pocket.
Then there is the story of the Misses and our first dinner together after we got married and she asked me what i would like for the very first time.
I replied Pot Roast and potatoes, mind you when i asked her dad for her hand in marriage i was very very nervoouse as he was old fashion and did not let me take her out on date without a chaperone.
He actually made me feel at ease when i ask him the big question , his first sentence was this