What other fruiting plant can you get a rootless stick in the mail in January 2014.  Root the stick.  Cup it.....then a 1 gallon and go from this newly cleared empty plot of land March 11 2014

 







To this in 5 short months.......AND get fruit before winter?  Just an amazing growth rate.  You can almost watch these things grow.  Granted there are a few slow pokes.


 

You can see in the background of the picture more brush that is being cleared for yet another new bed.  The middle row are newly planted, just a couple weeks back and just starting to grow.

Yep, growing figs is a good hobby for impatient people (like myself) compared to other trees.  So easy to multiply!

Nice!  We should set up a Florida Fig Tour.  You guys can charge admission and for sampling by the fig or by the pound in a few years.

I bought a 2' Hardy Chicago on Father's Day, and to date it is almost 6' tall. Like mentioned, you can literally watch the thing grow.

You get to meet a lot of good people too.

I was going through some pictures of fig trees I bought and put in ground this year and I was thinking the same thing!  WOW do they grow fast! 

Chicago Hardy I started from cuttings in January 2014 are 4ft tall with multiple branches in 6 gallon containers.  All of them have figs, and even though I have been pulling new ones off since beginning of July, one of them has 16 figs on it.  Even trees I started from cuttings as late as April and May are putting on figs!

What other tree? 

My Pakistan Mulberry has fruited and is 6' tall all from cuttings stuck in the ground last November.  There are other fruits, you know?  AND this mulberry will grow 80' tall, and we are going to stop it at ladder + JD high.  Grand kids need a tree house.

Suzi

Suzi,

As a "member in standing" you should have recognized that as a rhetorical question :)