I have come across many plant wholesalers but never for fig trees: is there any? Has any member come across one and where? If they exist I would imagine they propagate a lot of BT, Celeste and Black Mission.

Hi Sal

I was just searching around here on the internet, lots of nurseries selling plants of course, but there is one selling 3-1000 trees, including (LSU Purple, Texax Ever Bearing, Celeste), the name is Tennessee Wholesale Tree Nursery. Here's the link

http://www.tnnursery.net/

Thanks Mark
I will check into it

Before ordering, make sure to read their ratings/reviews on Dave's Garden.

http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/2281/

A good percentage of their "positive" reviews, was left by one person, most likely by someone who works their. And they were changed to "Neutral" by Dave's Garden's Watch Dog Editors.

I would definably stay away from them.


Navid.

Dave Wilson Nursery. I don't know if they have an open house but I'd like to see their fig operation.

It seems there are a few who carry a limited variety of figs but none has got a large choise, especially the wholesalers.
I like Dave Wilson nursery because they have a good quality product but their fig choise is very limited.
Maybe one of our members......

Spending time on this forum and watching fig listings on ebay gives, I think, a distorted view of fig importance. In the U.S., at least, it is a niche fruit.

In 2008 the U.S. produced 38,000 tons of figs, verses 390,000 tons of cherries (in 2009) and 254,000 tons of figs in Turkey (2010).

I suspect commercial farmers in California depend on only a few vaieties so I'm surprised that DWN offers the varieties that they do.

One hundred percent of the U.S. commercially grown figs come from the San Joaquin Valley in California.

The majority (95%) of U.S. fig production is processed and marketed as fig paste, fig concentrate, fig powder, fig nuggets, and diced and sliced figs (per the USDA Ag Marketing Resource Center).

I do understand that shipping is a problem with fresh figs but the event of farmers markets should develop it as a local crop. I know several produce buyers and they would be thrilled to find  local crop. Also, a lot of people enjoy fresh figs but it is not widely planted as a backyard fruit and I thought it was because plants are not easy to find, especially good varieties. When Lowe's, HD or Wal Mart have them, they sell them all. 

Are you thinking of starting some sort of commercial venture, Sal?