I stopped at a nursery I've never been to, found my way to a group of fig trees and was surprised and confused by what I found. They were all in 2 gallon pots and all had a weeping/creeping growth pattern.  Each pot had multiple "trunks" (i.e. not one or two, but many) growing out practically sideways and sweeping down toward the ground.  There were hardly any main trunks/branches that had any kind of an upright growth pattern at all.  The trunks were different sizes, some thin but others as big as 3/4" or so, and spreading out as far as 3 feet.  Two or three were simply labeled "brown" and the leaves reminded my of Celeste (...but don't quote me on that.)  Most of the others were labeled "black" if they were labeled at all.  Some of the leaf shapes of the "blacks" were more finger-like and different enough from the "browns" that I'm pretty sure they aren't the same variety.  Some of the leaves were very small, but many were also "normal" sized (5-6") and some were quite large (Dinner plate).  The leaves all looked like typical Ficus Carica type leaves...i.e. nothing weird.
I happened to find the owner or at least someone who was familiar with the operation.  He didn't know what variety they were at all.  He doesn't get them from a grower, he said they've been growing them there in the greenhouses for more than 6 years.  Still, though, he didn't have any clue what variety they were or what they might be.  (i.e. he didn't offer any named cultivars)
I will say that none of the figs growing in the pots struck me as being typical cuttings.  They all had multiple trunks seemingly coming from under the soil (i.e. not from a single or two main trunks).  The trunks were of different sizes, suggesting that maybe they had been growing for a while, not just a single season.
I commented on the odd growth pattern and he said I could stake them up to make them grow upright...
Do you suppose these are actually weeping/creeping figs?  Or is this a strange growth pattern that the figs will outgrow?
I'm searching through the forum for other threads on creeping/weeping figs, but I thought I'd post this now to see if anyone had any wisdom or insight to share.
Jim

Oh, yeah...I got some pictures on my cellphone but I'm not sure I can transfer them easily to my computer...gotta work on that...

Maybe the nursery found it easier to cover the plants for the winter if they

bent the branches down.
Could also be a sign that they were winter killed down to their bases,
and the following spring they had lots of new sprouts that weren't pruned off.

If my goal as a nursery owner was to get lots of cuttings to root, I might pick
a couple of my plants and completely chop them down to the roots every year...

Check back in on those plants, and see if there are any figs that you can sample!

There was a topic about Japanese fig growers that
kept their tree trunks growing horizontally, with photos
of these gnarly, silver, otherworldly behemoths stretching
long distances, just a foot from the ground.
Have you tried a search of espalier?

I remember that espalier thread -- these trees didn't look like they were intentionally espaliered.  Their growth habit was too random and unkempt, and I don't think the nursery grower was the type to go to that kind of trouble.  It looked like their natural growth habit.
This particular nursery has a pretty extensive greenhouse complex, and I imagine they spent the winter squirreled away somewhere in there (maybe not heated, but at least somewhat protected.)  I'm in NJ, so I don't think a nursery/grower would take a chance on leaving young trees out all winter.
None of these looked like they were intentionally bent and trained to grow that way...and the way they sprawl out horizontally would seem to make them harder, rather than easier, to keep/store/display.  None of the new growth seemed particularly inclined to grow upward.  Even if they were killed back for the winter I'd think the new growth would grow up.
There was a thread on this forum discussing a tree someone was calling "Wilmington Creeper" but it degraded and was deleted.  Too bad.
I wish I had more time to look at the trees when I was there.  I'll try to go back this weekend.  None of the trees seemed to have figs (which is a bad sign), but I wasn't looking closely for signs of them and they were kind of young.  Some of the info I found on the forum (and elsewhere) suggests that maybe they won't bear fruit at all.  Others suggest that maybe there will be a breba crop but the main requires wasp pollination.
Some other thread suggested creepers might be propagated from tissue cultures.
Hopefully others with more direct experience will add their 2 cents.
Jim

Here is a set of pictures I took during two quick stops at the nursery.   Sorry for the delay -- it too me a long time to discover that the unmarked USB cable I got with my cellphone was for charging only -- it has only power/ground wires -- no wires for data transfer! (grrr!)
Here are some shots that show the creeping nature of these plants:
   
Here are some closeups of the various leaf shapes:
             
In these shots I was paying closer attention to a couple of plants that had reddish leaf buds and stems:
     

Any additional discussion or insight regarding this creeping habit would be interesting and educational. 
Jim

I think odd fertilizer regimens can do that but I can't remember how.

Jim,
From my limited observations of "tissue cultured" fig plants, If they are left unpruned and untrained (not staked), they will develop this horizontal or near horizontal growing habit. This habit will continue because there is no branch or trunk with apical dominance. Once a main leader(trunk) is trained that leader will gain apical dominance and grow upright.

Pete,
  So you suspect these figs may be tissue cultured and not some strain with a creeping habit?
  I can try to verify that next time I stop by the nursery.  The person I talked to didn't know anything about the variety, but hopefully he knows something about how he propagated them.  (He did say "you can stake one and train it to grow upright", but he didn't suggest that would cure the whole plant of its habit.)
  I would agree that there doesn't seem to be any main leader -- it is more of a free-for-all.
Jim

Jim,
I purchased tissue cultured plants last year. All the cultivars that were being produced by Agristarts at the time, through a retailer, I posted on it last year and earlier this year. The plants that were not staked developed that horizontal growth habit due to the weight of the leaves weighing down the thin spindly branches.

The plants with the reddish leaf stems were labeled as Magnolia and Black Mission. All other varieties had normal colored stems. 

IMO, if you stake one of the larger branches and prune away all other branches, The growth should be very fast (given proper culture) due to developed roots.