You stare at every tree you drive by wondering if you'll spot a fig tree, and when you do see one....you're happy as heck. When you're a fig addict, you log onto this site every hour of the day hoping you didn't miss out on anything. You know when you're a fig addict, when  you get frustrated when you meet people who don't appreciate figs. The worst part is I'm just starting out. How extreme do thing get for everyone else on here?    You know you're a fig addict when.....

...when after a trip [especially some place far from home] where you have seen fig trees, you use Google Maps Street View to find them again, and save the GPS coordinates

you have more pics of figs in your phone than pics of your family

Your car spends the winter outside because you need the garage space for overwintering trees.

When one's own available land/space becomes too small/tiny for more figs.

.....when you replace the standard overhead lights in your large master bathroom with high intensity grow lights to ensure your young fig trees get some additional light; AND you are able to convince your wife that " this is a good thing"!

You know you're an addict when you go to sleep thinking about figs, wake up thinking about figs, try to watch TV only to realize you are thinking about figs.....lol.  You also know you are a new addict when you go outside to look at your fig trees 5 or 6 times a day.  =)

...there are more cuttings than food in the fridge, on the fridge, and rooting on the dinner table because it is the best place in the house. Mark- still working on convincing the wife this is a "good thing" haha.

Hmmmm, I guess I will just have to live with the addiction, there doesn't seem to be a 12 step program.... 

You have fig trees rooting in your office because it's really hot in there. Yout take your child around the neighborhood and show her where the fig trees are..

when everything you read here on the forum seems to be reasonable and nothing surprises you, I have no illusions of normalcy!

@ Jules, LOL me too! and you just stand there staring at them like they just grew an inch or so. You walk away and come back to stare again. I wonder if my neighbors think I'm nuts. Youre a fig addict when you spend more money on feeding your fig than yourself.

when you have a two car garage and you have to park in the driveway and still looking for cuttings to find that perfect fig.


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When your wife threatens. "It's me or those darn figs" and you realize how much your gonna miss her.

Vito

You tell your friends and family how good your Fig trees are and if they can find you more.

.....when you have to take 5 personal vacation days from work just to repot fig trees and prep your green house before winter. My wife thinks I'm crazy

There is a 12 step program for fig addiction and I am practicing it at my house.

In the yard I don't have to walk more than 12 steps to get to the next group of trees!

My name is Armando and I am a Fig Addict.......Been Losing Friends in Life and on Facebook....LOL    Maybe I should talk about oranges...??? or something else...LOL

Your a fig addict when your spare bathroom is a cutting nusary, your laundry room hoses the taller plants under the grow lights there.the wife said she wanted more lighting and I deliverd. The bathroom houses many larger figs under grow lights. Again she wanted more light ;-). The top of the freezer and fridge servea as a heating mat for root growth. And planning to build a shed just for round year figging with heat, lights, and solar panels. Your an adict when you remove 60 foot of black berries 30 foot of raspberries, and three arbors of grapes just to make more room for figs. Now I am trying to get my mom on the fig wagon so we can plant on her land.

Yeah I think I got problems. But its so fun to be this figgen fruity ;-)

...you begin plotting how to expand into your neighbors' yards.

This is the best thread. I have read it every day and makes me smile. All of them are true too!

... someone you've just met mentions they have an XXX (son, daughter, parent, cousin, office, etc.) in San Diego and you wonder if it is too soon to ask them for help transporting trees from Jon's place.

when your co-workers start calling you Heisenfig.

When you try to buy the vacant land behind you to expand,,,,,,