Hello and Happy New Year!
I am a newbie to figs. I purchased 2 Hardy Chicago from EBay 2 years ago. They are currently growing in 10 gallon Smartpots. One of the trees produced 3 figs.
They were absolutely delicious!!! The only figs I've eaten came from that famous cookie.
Now I'm hooked. I'm interested in getting maybe 3 more plants to grow in my Bronx backyard with my cherry and blueberry plants.
But for now I am a learner and fig lover.

Welcome!  Glad to hear Hardy Chicago was good.  I bought two from Lowe's this past autumn.  Can't wait to taste them myself.  You're among the nicest people on the web.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome ! Hardy Chicago was a good one . I have a young one from Lowes as well.

Welcome Smaritza your gonna love it here.........(neighbor)

This is soooo true Bob ...3 more HA! I dont think so never gonna happen !!!   :)

Welcome to the forum.  There are a lot of wonderful "fig geeks" here.  LOL  You will love this place.  

Wow! You guys are great! Thanks for the welcome. But I am not going to be addicted to figs. 5 trees is my limit until I get a bigger yard that is. Lol!


Bronx, NY Zone 6

Smaritza I know you really truly seriously believe that. But !!! you will see LOL there's always room they will be in your house before you know it.

Hahahahaha, yeah that's what we all said "I'm not going to be addicted" . Hope ( well maybe not- we are all enablers you see ) you can stick to that.

Looking forward to reading your posts !

Welcome to your new home.

Welcome to the best forum for figs ever! Glad to have you

Smaritza welcome and hope your journey here is pleasant.

Smaritza,

This was my intro on 10/10/12

I just moved to the Houston area this summer and am excited to have a chance to plant some fig trees. My first experience of fresh figs was in Charlotte, NC. I was renting a house and there was a fig tree in the backyard. Come that summer I had the greatest eating experience of my life - fresh figs. I've waited a long time to get somewhere that I could plant figs and reap that great harvest again. So, can anyone in the Houston area (or zone 8b) help me decide which varieties do well in my location. I plan on having 2 plants in the ground and maybe 2 potted plants. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

I currently have 19 cuttings in 1 gallon pots, three or four more in deli containers and also have four more varieties in the frig waiting to start.  My yard is totally planned out and the remainders are going into pots.

So you think you want just three more types???  Resistance is futile.

Welcome Smaritza, from the west coast!  Glad you found this valuable forum.  Lot's of great folks here on the list to offer up a tremendous amount of great information about fig cultivars and fig cultivation.  I, too, wanted to keep my figs to about ten cultivars.  Well, 35 cultivars later, what can I say, it is a very addicting hobby.  Enjoy, and we look forward to your posts and photos :-)

Welcome from me too!  Congratulations on your new hobby! 

Good luck keeping your collection sizeable!  There are so many tricky ways in this forum to suck you in!  Members post photos of delicious figs with a description "so good, my knees buckled..", and of course, you never heard of that one, so it begins!  THEN they post devious ideas like stacking your pots in a vertical pyramid so you can have more in one space..... 

THEN you learn this dance called "the Fig Shuffle."

See?  And then you start looking for property an acre or more in a zone where figs thrive....

I bet you just can't wait to get this party started!  Ooops!  You already did! :-))

Suzi

So I guess, I better find more place to plant figs..  Oh my!!!!! 

Welcome to the forum.

"Welcome to de hotel California!"

I bought a Hardy Chicago last spring @ Lowes, and got about 2 dozen figs off mine!
peachy/apricot flavored * delicious!  now I'm hooked too!
(bought a second Hardy Chicago this past Sept. on clearence for $2.50 @ Lowes)
Half the size.

Dan, $2.50 fig tree! that is insane! You are so lucky.  Our Lowes up here in Washington have NOTHING..the workers don't even know what fig is... one looked at me, like I am from another planet... she insisted I needed to say figure...sad!

Hello and Welcome Maritza!! There are a few members here from the Bronx. I work in the Bronx, up from Jacobi hospital to 243 st and white plains road. Like others have said, it will be hard to keep it to just a "few" trees. you'll find a place for 10 or 20 more potted trees, lol. I bought my trees from someone with 1/4 acres and he had at least 100 potted plants. He still had a lot of room to plant other things (the pots where all along the perimeter of his yard. Do you know which varieties you want to add?? are you interested only in trees to grow in ground (many of those around the bronx, good eatin')?

Jose

Now you guys are getting me super excited about figs I could grow. I think I want to just grow them in pots
( just in case I move they can come with me!). I do tend to go overboard when I want to plant fruits. I guess I better get more smartpots for the fig trees and hold off on the cold hardy kiwi I planned to buy.
What are the best figs to grow in the Bronx? I don't know too many of the names.

I am really enjoying this forum!

Grasa,
HC IS the ONLY fig offered at my local Lowes, and retails for $19.99 here
I happened to find the last one for $2.50 on clearence just before our first hard frost.
Nurseries only offer HC at $30.00 - $35.00 a pop!

Unfortunately, folks here will plant them in ground with no knowlege of winter protection,
and next year will probably have nothing.
Eventually, Lowes will probably stop selling them altogether!

I was told @ Lowe's garden center when I bought my first HC that I needed 2 trees
for cross pollenation! That's how much they know about fig trees here! LOL

I picked up the 2nd (clearence) fig for a little 84 yo Italian lady that owns a junk shop
an hour away from me. We talked about figs, But, she could never get one to grow here.
I bought her one. hopefully, she'll have better luck with the HC. :)