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

[QUOTE=SummerSweetPlums] You know you're a fig addict when.....[/QUOTE]

you have already found fig trees in 3 different towns before you have bought your first fig tree...

well, I bought a small tree at the third place, a local orchard/berry farm/winery where my wife and I were walking around during their open house last weekend, and my mouth dropped open with amazement when I noted their 15 or so 6 ft tall potted figs, and when I asked the owner he sold me a 2 ft tall Hardy Chicago out of his little greenhouse.  :)

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. Or 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.

[QUOTE=jdarden1963]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.  =)[/QUOTE]
I'm glad I'm not the only one, lol

.....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,,,,,,

When you talk about figs using a lot of abbreviations.....My cuttings from UCD of VDB and RDB growing in SWC have a bad case of FMV.

You spend half of your free time reading up on different varieties and the rest of your free time trying to find someone to sell you one.

When fig season is over for you, you stand in your garden rubbing your fig leaves and sniff them because they at least smell like figs and dream about eating them next season.

When you wonder why it took you so long to realize how awesome figs are and wonder how many fig trees you passed by in your life that you missed getting a cutting from.

When you see a fig tree and think,;" mmmm, wonder how I'm gonna get a cutting from that one.

You start mapping every where you've seen a fig tree growing and make plans to revisit the tree when you think it'll have some ripened up some figs.

You feel anxious during fig growing season because you just don't know which of your fig babies will produce that year.

You consider chasing squirrels out of your yard and ask your kids to chase them if you have to step away from your patrol during fig ripening season in your yard.

When your kids think every box the mail man brings you has a fig tree in it.

When you begin to wonder when you will be finally able to stop collecting trees or cuttings then shake of that silly thought because deep down you like figs so much and they bring a little happiness in your corner of the world.

I could think of more but, I think that you get the picture. :)

I know that God loves me because He made so many kinds of figs!

Your driving around NYC with coworkers, just happened to see a fig tree out the window.  You point it out to your coworkers whom think you have lost your mind and don't give two shits about it.  You then find yourself consumed by finding more fig trees.

Great thread!
PotatoChips, I answered "Yes!" to ALL of yours except the squirrels one  (thankfully I don't have that problem, but I have seen that green mexican fruit beetle buzzing around!)
Oh and regarding the first post: I stopped being upset with people that don't appreciate figs. . .
I tell myself "They just aren't ready yet, they'll come around" :)
- Dave & Fam

What about bringing them in for the winter and caring for them at every second of the day (if we could  that is).
thinking what pots to buy for next summer and for which variety.

dreaming about figs, fig leaves and fig roots, root rot being a nightmare.

sharing all of this with people that like figs too.

sums it for me

You have any fig trees that you refer to as "Unknown".

When your family refers to you as "fancy fig man".

When your children's friends refer to you as "fig man" and you reply "I'm just a fig man of your imagination."  (Yes, it just happened to me a few hours ago.;-)
Jim

I cant stop thinking about figs. I dream about figs. I think about figs all day. I look at the pictures of figs on here. Sometimes when I'm sad I watch fig videos. There is just something about fig trees that is so peaceful. I look at my trees everyday. I talk to people about figs and they look at me funny, but I cant help it. I drive around looking for fig trees and ask my neighbors about their fig trees. Sometimes I stay up late and eat strawberry jam and pretend I'm eating a black madeira.

[QUOTE=vito12831]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. Or When your wife threatens. "It's me or those darn figs" and you realize how much your gonna miss her. Vito[/QUOTE]

LMAO

When you take a bin full of rooted cuttings on vacation with you!

I'm pass addict and going right to fig hoarder.  Between the figs and the orchid being housed in my bedroom I no longer have a place for the furniture.  Hopefully this will improve when the new greenhouse is up and running.

...when you take pictures of your little trees and cuttings -- daily.
...when you sneak out at dawn with your clippers to take cuttings from the trees you find in vacant lots.

...when you tell yourself you can stop anytime while rooting dozens of new varieties with dozens more coming.

[QUOTE=GregMartin]...when you tell yourself you can stop anytime while rooting dozens of new varieties with dozens more coming.[/QUOTE]

Oops, sorry to help enable you!

I just hear that that's a problem for others...I'm ok...keep sending them Kelby....I can stop anytime...

... when you're trying to convince your wife to let you name your first daughter Violet de Bordeaux... She's not having it...

When you can't raise the Bathroom window, to shoot a squirrel in your Fig Tree, because more Fig cuttings you are rooting, on the window sill, will fall off in the floor !

when u tried to take over ur grandmas kitchen table with rooted cuttings and u go around the neighborhood looking for containers and pots for overwintering

[QUOTE=Elfarach]... when you're trying to convince your wife to let you name your first daughter Violet de Bordeaux... She's not having it...[/QUOTE]
Simon... daughter?  nice:)
Violet is a great name BTW, haha

How's it going Aaron... Yup, baby girl was confirmed not too long ago... My fig count for next summer just got smaller...

You know why daddies call their baby girls Princesses , right?

Because it makes them the King, LOL

Why is your fig count lessening for the coming summer Simon? Babies love ripe figs.

lMAO!!!!
All of the above plus,when every container ,bucket, water bottle,barel etc,is a potential fig tree pot,my latest one a 21 inch laundry basket from Walmart!!!!! Guilty as charged and major fig junkie ! Have a great Friday kids.

And about a half an hour late for work, I rest my case

Ha, good pic Chris. I'm sure there are plenty of fridges look like that. 
Aaron, as soon as the baby gets a taste she'll take all of mine, haha.

....when you keep a picture of your favorite fig tree in your wallet.

Thanks Simon ! That's what makes us special.;)

When you go to the dentist office and come home with a car load of unk white Italian fig tree cuttings like I just did.

When, you come home from work ,go straight to the darn iPad to check the forum, see Joes'posting LYAO and start begging Joe to send you a a couple of those cuttings he got from his dentist
Please please please Mr J P spread the love and those Uk whites! Grachi!

lol Dennis I missed that one!
I don't carry the pic in my wallet!
But,when you use it as wallpaper on your phone!

When you start making plans to plant the highway median by your house with fig trees and drive by the city park wondering if you can get away with planting figs there.

When you sit here and search the web, the same webpages hoping some magical page appears where you can buy the fig tree you want without the painful cost of shipping. sigh

When you come up with a thread like this just so you have something to talk about on the F4F forum.