Ok Im still confused with this one, I got to work this morning and noticed the door was unlocked wich I found very strange. I got inside and noticed it alittle empty but couldn't quite put my finger on it. When I noticed the sun was beeming on the window I went to gather my plants to put by the window to get some sun, well to my surprise half of them were missing. I had 5 Capelas now I have 2 I had 2 Violette De Bordeaux now I have 1 I had a desert king now I dont I had 1 small Bronze Paradiso I had rooted Now they are gone too Some mother F&%$r Stole my fig plants wtf is this world coming too, who does that? Why wouldnt they steal the computer or printer or something else. But was nice enough to leave me some, wtf I cant even discribe how I feel right now. I had over 20 plants last week im down to 12 now.

That is bizarre. Probably someone you know. If I were in your situation, I would suspect my wife.

Sorry to hear of your loss Nelson. It's hard to believe someone would risk jail to steal figs. Are you sure someone isn't playing a little joke on you??? I hope that's the case, although not a very funny joke to a fig nut. Let us know how it plays out.

I would call the police and the newspaper...

You know as angry as I am I havent laughed this hard in a long time. So who ever did this put 3 of the rooted capelas into a 2 galon container Ok but took 1 for himself. Also found my Desert King in the garbage roots look dry you guys think this will come back? If its someone I know they better keep it a secret the rest of their lives or else someone will be picking up chicklets off the floor.

Unbelievable.  That would be cause for a black list.  Unbelievable. Please They will all be okay.

Matt from Pittsburgh, very funny, very funny! 
I would think this tree will bounce back, its only been there a day, right?  Cut the tree in half right now and root the top half.  The bottom is already rooted, you should be fine.

Lol I know the wife is sick of hearing about figs but even she wouldn't do anything like this. I have a feeling its my stupid cousin, we have one of those types of relationships were we pull pranks on each other and if he did do it he wouldn't admit to it until months later. But I will find out who it is just waiting for the owner of the property to arrive here so I can look at the survailance cameras. Like why would a stranger take three plants and carefully put it into a bigger pot that just makes no sence.

Nelson, get that desert king into a water bath ASAP.  Soak it for 3-4 hours like you would any other bare root tree before planting.  Then get it into a new pot.  It should be fine.

Oh, and let us know the result of the camera search.  This is rather bizarro.  I would be irate if this happened to me.

Jason I just called my stupid cousin since I had a feeling and told him what happened and that I was going to check the cameras, he then confesed. Apparently his girlfriends father was looking for some fig trees but instead of asking he figured I wouldnt notice since I had so many. See heres my dilemma as angry as I am, when I was younger we got into a fight and I broke his front teeth top and bottom and at 12 he was wearing dentures. This is the first time he did something as stupid as this and since I still feel guilty for what I did this is his one time freebie. I warned him though next time ask and I will be changing the locks today.

Cousin or not that is wrong, stealing in my book. I would find a way to steal his dentures if not permanent and if they are a good sedative and some pliers might do the trick. You just don't mess with one's fig trees. Vendetta LMAO
A nice sweet pastry filled with some Laxatives might do for now
Sal

LMAO thats a good one Sal maybe I should give him a new set of dentures for the back teeth to match the front lol. Oh he will pay for it trust you me, Im really angry and the fact that he just took them with out asking, Thats not like him to do something like that actually hes never done that before but I will be paying him a visit after work.

Keep us updated but please don't do any thing that will make headlines or at least don't get caught ALIBI ALIBI Lol
Sal

LOL Sal I like your style, Forgive never forget is my modow. I gave him an extra key in case we ever lost ours hes no longer trust worthy. I wish it was a stranger who took them I would of been much happier.

Nelsobn, they won't let you have fig trees in jail. ;-))

lol ain't that the truth. I have a little one on the way and cant risk anything like that. I will just go by his girlfriends parents house and tell them how they got those plants and tell them I would like them back. This is embarrasing if I knew it was him from the beggining I wouldnt even have posted. Now everyone knows how stupid he really is.

Hey Nelson, what an extraordinary event. How not to laugh. Hope you didin't get into any thing physical involving coppers. It happened to a friend whose relationship with the sis was not so good. His sis came after midnight, woke him up & they had a quarrel.  He physically booted her out from his house. Well $15000 later the judge threw out the case. He had already spend a night in jail and had to attend 6 months anger management course.

LMAO Paully your too funny. But that is all too commonnowadays, I will be leaving in about 10 minutes going to go pick up my plants and deal with this bafoon.

Nelson in the end when things calm down perhaps you can extend a fig branch maybe get that part of the family interested in figs thats of course after you paint his dentures a rather unusual color or wait for a real cold day and put some water into his car door locks.
Before i retired i was the prankster at work and can think up a bunch of things.
Course in the end my very last day at work they gang thru a small party for me , little did i know 1 at time they were taking turns decorating my jeep in the lot it was a misty day outdoors and all that toilet paper was a pain to remove along with everything else they did to it but hey life is short and of course that was THERE payback which i righfully deserved, when i left they all scrambled outside to see my expression.

Nelson
Your cousin could have impressed his in-laws by rooting some cuttings for them if you had introduced him to it.
Your desert King is going to survive after replanting. I has a rooted plant lost in transit for 55(+) days, mostly dried looking but survived.

Akram after putting the Desert King in water for about an hour the roots turned white again and seemed ok. I potted it up and will keep a close eye on it. So I go to these people's house and they were the nicest people I have met in a long time no wonder he wanted to impress them. They were so happy with their little plants that I didnt have the heart to take them back and tell them how they got them. I told my cousin he has to rent a boxing ring for 1hr and were are gonna throw down the legal way and boy is he gonna get it. Me and my father run a waste management business this guy was so stupid that he left the door unlucked where someone could of stolen clients information so when fight night come he better be ready.

Might be good to have a little scare.  Get new/better locks, backup all your pc stuff, and maybe even encrypt it.  Seems you got really lucky in a number of ways...

A little background on family to me. I have known from a little child where I will be laid to rest. Right beside my father who is right beside his father who is right beside his father. Four out of the nine generations of us since we got off the boat are laid to rest there. Three are still walking above ground and one other is a few miles down the road in the other older family plot and one was lost at sea. I know each and every one of these generations, where they lived and where they died. Most importantly I know HOW they lived.
Why do I mention this. Because there is one living today who will die alone and unacknowledged. His place beside his father is forfeit. He will not be spoken of as anything more than the bogeyman that scares our children.

His crime was theft from family.

Nelson,

Long time ago when I used to run my brothers store the employee and I used to catch mice with a glue trap and then we'd fill the mop bucket with hot boiling water and toss the mice in it.

With all do respect to you and your family but your cousin is a rat!

What he did is beyond low and I think you let him get away in a big way this time. But I also have to agree with you in a way, You could have lost your freedom too. That's the bad part. The good part is the trees can be replaced if needed.

Good luck