I'm very new at the Fig scene, but for real, it's like I am on Fig Crack!! It's like I can't help myself. Almost ever time I get online,I I am either reading about Figs or ordering Plants or Cuttings. My Wife said " What is going on with you and Figs" I said "Hell, I don't Know".....Actually she knows once I start a hobby, I go full force!

Am I just crazy or what? This started when a friend of mine gave me a bunch of Figs to eat (Negronne)....have been a slave ever since! Someone please help me, my Bank Balance is dropping.........I am pretty sure I am not the only one here....lol

Figs I have bought in the last 3 Months: Thank God, I have a huge backyard!

Chicago Hardy
Verde Ventotene
Black Italian
LSU Purple
Peters Honey (cuttings)
Paradiso
Black Mission
Magnolia
Black Jack
Celeste
Negrrone
Unknown Cutting (beautiful black)
Turkey Brown
Texas Everbearing

Frank from BAMA

LOL , sorry , no reprimands or finger waggling from me !! I seem to be in the same boat ! Forget the "seem to be" .......

Oh nice collection ---- so far !!

Same here!  I went from 9 tree's this spring to 30.  And that isn't counting all the cuttings I have rooting right now! 

You are definitely not alone. I've been around figs my whole life but I just started my own collection this year, I'm up to about 25 varieties just this summer. My wife is always hounding me, she said I will look awfully funny going to rehab for fig trees. I told her it could be worse.

I feel your pain Frank! I was first bitten by the blueberry bug. Had 55 plants at one time with something like 18 or 19 varieties. Took about 3 years to get over it! Thinned them down to a manageable level (22 plants and the best tasting varieties for my area) and now I'm here with y'all wondering where in the hell I'm going to put all these fig plants I plan to get! Everyone I know personally thinks I'm nuts but at some point you just gotta shake the haters off and do you!!! You will calm down in due time.

You seem pretty normal in our eyes!

  Truly, fig adiction is justifiable.  It's a healthy hobby, producing nutritious figs, and preventing these lessor known and rare varieties from being lost forever.  If it's up to commercial fig growers we'd be limited to a very few varieties and the others will be disappear like many heirloom fruits and vegs have. 
I chalk up my fig expenses to entertainment because I enjoy it so much, ..plus doing the fig shuffle and potting up eliminates the need to go to a gym. 
See it's justifed!
Soni

That's just normal fig behavior. Resistance is futile!!!!

I'm really sorry your wife is giving you a hard time but I'm sure we're all in the same boat. Just enjoy it and one day soon you'll find "the one" that your wife just loves the taste of and she'll leave you alone.

Another case of "Ficus Addictus", incurable, I might add.  Worry not, you are among friends.

OBTW- I have the shirt

there's something about this site and us lunatics on it. i bot a chicago hardy, came here for some info on its care. now i got fig trees all over.

i think i got hypnotized .......

[QUOTE=susieqz]there's something about this site and us lunatics on it. i bot a chicago hardy, came here for some info on its care. now i got fig trees all over.

i think i got hypnotized .......[/QUOTE]

LOL!!!

Sometimes, I wish that there were only a 100 (or so) F.carica variants ...

I have to giggle here. I got bit with figmania back in late June....now I own a Sal's, a green italian, a celeste, a hardy chicago, a petite negri, a LSU purple, and about 12 various unknown cuttings that are rooting! Oh, and a dwarf cavendish banana thrown in there for good measure! LOL I need to update my siggy wish list! :D

I'm in the same boat, wanted to go looking for figs on sale this wkend, was turned down by hubby! 1 month ago made him dig up a fig that had airlayered in an abandon lot! It dropped all of it's leaves but recovered with some new leaves. He thinks I'm crazy!

Yea, I just don't ask my husband about any of this.  He has his Krav Maga thing and I don't bother his hobby, so he leaves mine alone.  That and he likes eating figs. 

V, maybe you just need to feed your hubby some fresh figs!

Everybody here got bit with the fig bug. If you're like me, I was planning on keeping about 5 then that grew to 12 then to 25, but I surpassed that. When I got to 50 varieties of my own with access to another 50 more varieties I slowed down but didn't stop. I'm trying to fine tune my collection. Now I'm weeding out the lessor liked varieties and keeping the more cold hardy types.

I do feed him figs and he likes them, but I also make him move the 15-20 gallon pots, 4 ft wide figs into the garage and out and in, etc...you get the idea, right? He doesn't want to move another 20 plants, but I hate to tell him, it is in his near future.LOL

Uhh, he needs to buy you a good dolly then.  That way it would be easier for him to move the fig tree's around....

Yeah, I guess I was just a recreational fig "user" for several years before I got seriously hooked.

Back in 2008 (http://www.figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=27632870&postcount=3) I wrote:

[QUOTE=HarveyC]I should add that tasting Jurupa last year for the first time made me realize that I might like figs more than I thought after having others our family has grown around here.  I doubt I'll ever build up more than a dozen (or two) varieties, but the Jurupa did help me decide to expand my collection.
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I think I need to blame it on the very nice Panache I had last year.  Last year 14 fig trees in the ground and about 3 or 4 more in pots.  I now have over 100 varieties and over 150 trees.  And I go hunting for figs in the dark.

In January one night I told my wife that I thought I was getting pretty serious about figs.  She looked at me, shaking her head, and said she had already realized that for a few weeks.  At Jon's Fig Fiesta someone asked me if my wife supports my fig venture and I explained that it's something she just tolerates.  Don't know what would happen if she got hooked also.

I remember those days

Harvey,

hunting fig tree's in the dark?  Does that imply what I think it does?  (I'm hoping it's just ebay, but could be you're driving around taking cuttings from neighborhood fig trees...)

You have an impressive collection of tree's and that orchard your starting is really impressive!  Do you still have the Jurupa?

Meghan, too rural around here for me to go scouting for fig trees in the vicinity.  I just go outside and scout around my own trees looking for an evening snack such as the Longue d' Aout I enjoyed tonight.  Panache is a trustworthy supplier and I can almost always find a fix anytime I need one.

Yes, your crazy...  but then, we're all a little insane here...

Figs are amazing and it's hard to stop growing just one.    And it started in Marietta Georgia where I only had 1 Brown Turkey and 1 Celeste.  When I moved to Charlotte, I bought 3 that surprised me by fruiting with very little care.  Today I have......well, I'll just say I have over 500 fig trees.  I just fell in love with figs. 

My boss has 137 arces a few miles north of Charlotte.  This summer, he tasted his first fresh fig.   (A few weeks back, I brought in a huge bowl of figs.)  THat day, he tried one and then another, and then another and then another.  He cleaned out my entire bowl of figs!  Since that day, all he talks about is how those figs taste.  And guess what?  Now, he wants to buy some fig trees to put on his property.  He said he's hooked!

Yesteday, a lady and her husband stopped by my place.  They were interested in buying my swimming pool.  When the lady saw all my trees, she said, "what in heaven are all of those"?  I told her they were fig trees.  I explained the different types and cultivars I have.  Some were ripe on the trees so I walked over and picked one Bayenfeige Violetta and one Strawberry fig and gave it to them.  Both almost passed out with just one bite of the BV!  They laughed so hard till they had tears in their eyes saying, "Wow, those were good"!  The lady said the BV was almost too sweet and the Strawberry tasted like a sweet tangy berry.

To make a long story short, they bought the pool.  I gave them a one 3 gallon Hardy Chicago fig tree and a couple of jars of fig jam.  So, yes, figs are so addictiing!!!!!!

Well the darn trees grow so well, it's reasonably easy to propagate and there are sooo many varieties to try. You can't just have 1 or 2. 

"We're all bozo's on this bus" Firesign Theatre,

I had my first fresh fig off of my 3 yr old tree this year. Since then I have looked everywhere for more but cant find any in my area. No nurseries have em, no big box stores, noone.  My guess is I will hit ebay hard this winter.