I got a little over a thousand trees.  Some are dups and the wife wants the 150 fig trees off the decks.  So, I decided to drain my swimming pool and create more "fig space".  This new space will be a new sun deck for my citrus and fig tree oasis!

next time wife says i have too many trees, i'll have to tell her that some have over 1,000 trees :)

I was keeping doubles of everything then I decided that wasn't necessary I started clearly out doubles and I'm having kinds of trouble with trees I kept I only had one of and now I'm back to wanting doubles....

Some of these may be redundant (VdB/Negronne), but I plan to keep all of these until I get fruit, then determine if I should keep more than two of each.  If Preto is like Black Madeira, I'll keep all 4 for sure.  Some of these cuttings were very small so it will take a few years to be confident they'll survive.

RdB - 5
Preto - 4
VdB - 3
Petite Negri - 4
Negronne - 5

I received most of my UC Davis cuttings as 3 large sticks that were cut into 9 total - most rooted and are growing.  I've been giving away dupes (sometimes it's hard to get someone to take a Kadota - kind of like giving away green squash).

Black Madeira, Panachee and some others have only 1 survivor (and that seems touch and go).  My one Ischia Black put out a leaf (and roots) and then keeled over.

So the ones I want dupes of are scarce and the more 'common' ones are coming on strong.

I plan to keep at least 2 of everything that I can for the first year and eventually see what I like to eat and thin/grow from there.

Andrew

I keep doubles but I sell plants and donate to charity I have triples of some. That way I can always get cuttings but I am starting out at this so most are to small to get cuttings from at this time.

Dave, did you forget you wrote this in the #25 above? :)

KK,  You are right: distribute widely. That is why I try and make as many different varietal cuttings available each year. That is one of the major reasons for the Foundation: to be able to continue to have wide distribution of the many varieties. There have been occasions when I have been able to replace a plant for someone who lost their original plant, because they sent me cuttings to grow, in the first place. That is also one of the goals of the Foundation: to be able to be a back-up for other peoples varieties. Likewise, people have sent cuttings or plants precisely because they know they we be re-distributed, and they do not want to hassle with all the requests they they would get.

When I sell plants and cuttings, most of that money goes to maintain the current collection, and to acquire new varieties. That allows me to continue to keep the collection until we find the $$$$$ to give the collection a permanent home.

Jon,

That one fig that gave you the scare. Was it the up and coming "Jons Hybrid BT"? As in Brown Turkey?

Yeah sorry about the double post. I spend most the time on my android phone and service for cell phones are not that great here so I somtimes get double post. Delayed post. Etc.

Rafed,

That would be somewhere between nightmare and life ending.

At the moment I am keeping multiples (if I have them) of each variety at least until I taste them. If I don't like them, out they will go. I've already given away a good number of young trees that I had many of, and plan to give many more away when I know which ones I'll keep. I'm going to plant a number of them in the ground and of my favorites or hard to obtain, will keep a dup in a pot because of the potential of gopher loss. I don't know how many Ill end up with, but the intent is to keep most them in-ground, in bush form by pruning significantly in winter.

I don't keep doubles but I do make sure my nearby fig friends have a clone of my rare trees in case something happens.

Howie, there has to be some mystery. ;-))

Jon then so what you're saying is that it IS a Brown Turkey! Lol

Wow.. this thread got big...  like most of my new trees ;)

I have been debating about keeping 2 of each.  But I'm having a hard time convincing my wife I need to keep at least 1 of each.  I'm having to come up with creative places to plant some of them so that they serve a purpose.

We have a 4 bush hedge next to a side parking spot in our driveway that looks pretty ratty and overgrown with weeds.  I've convinced her to let me dig em out and plant a fig hedge that will be prunned (somewhat) every year.  I'm going to use a Hollier, Marylane Seedless, White Texas EB, and (Home Depot) Ischia.

I may try to keep 2 Ronde de Bordeaux's.

I'm just starting out and don't have many varieties but do have more than one of most of them.  I don't see a problem with that so far.  The more the better.  I will probably want to thin them out as I learn more about them growth habits cold tolerance taste all that type of stuff.

goss

I'm only going to keep doubles of potted figs until I plant one in the ground and see how it does. Then I will only keep one in the pot of that variety and the other will be in ground. That way I can free up space just in case I find another fig that I MUST have. Well, at least that's my plan, whether or not I follow thru with it will have to be determined. The world may never know.....

I am in Zone 5a and store many of my figs in unheated garage in addition to some in a small basement cold storage. So, I feel I need duplicate of the ones I do not want to be lost due to winter kill.
The only way I ever lost a fig is due to winter kill when stored in the garage. This year I lost about seven tree aged 3 to 5 (some of these were about 1.5" thick dia in 7 gallon pots).

I used to keep duplicates. The only duplicates in my care this season are VdB, H.Chicago, Latarrula, DK, Aldo. These duplicates are kept mainly based on what produces well for my zone or just based on taste.