I have been lurking on these forums for a few weeks, reading everything I can here and elsewhere online about growing figs.  I am a 'virgin' fig grower but plan to get a few varieties to try here in zone 6a Southwest Pennsylvania.  This forum is a great source of knowledge - thanks to all who are contributing!

I might pepper the forum with questions in the near future, but for now I have only one - how do you keep from becoming fig-addicted like most of you seem to be?  :) 

Anyway, looking forward to adding fig trees to my orchard (though these will likely not be inground like the rest of my fruit).

Welcome to the forum Ed, glad to have you!
There is no vaccination against fig addiction and no 12 step program or rehab center. Quite the contrary, you can go to UCD and gorge on figs:)
Don't worry, you and all around you will get used to it and you won't remember what it's like to not be surrounded by figs!

Welcome
What addiction??

Ebone welcome.
You type 1 question -I might pepper the forum with questions in the near future, but for now I have only one - how do you keep from becoming fig-addicted like most of you seem to be?  :)



In time when you you get lots of fig plants and have to root prune to properly take care of them you will slowly lose the addiction and clamor only for the best tasting ones and perhaps cut down on the similar tasting ones etc as their is no need for them.

Welcome aboard Ed!

Welcome

Hi Ed. I am in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh. If you find yourself in the area I can start you off with some cuttings this fall and probably air layer you a tree or three in the spring. Just pm me.

Welcome to the forum Ed.

welcome

Shhh.  Most of the Fig Addicts on here are in denial and / or oblivious to their plight. 

Welcome to the forum!  And FA is contagious....

Once I got more than 3 trees it quickly went to 40.  Welcome to the forum, check out Bass's posts/website if you haven't already I think he's near enough by to see some good varieties for you.

Welcome to the forum. Addiction to figs? Is this possible. I started with 1 tree now have 28 and planning on more. But does this count as addiction. I am looking for more land just to have more figs..... maybe there might be somthing there.... nah. Fig fever hits before you know it. You will start rooting cutting and before you know it will have em all around. Welcome we are just nuts about or figs here.

welcome to the forum Ed !

hiya ed. nice to meetcha.

now that you've joined, abandon ye all hope. a few months ago i came here for info on a fig i bot as a houseplant.

now i have 5 trees plus a zillion cuttings i'm trying to grow.

i have no idea how that happened.

Ed: Welcome to the Fig Forum.

Best,
Tam

welcome ed

If you want to get a quick start take a look at Jon's listings on Ebay.  Some real nice plants to kick start your addicti...  oh um , collection.

After reading in this forum for a while I am not sure if the biggest addiction is: - eating figs - tasting new varieties of figs - collecting fig varieties - discovering previously unknown figs - posting on the Figs for Fun Forum - all of the above in conjunction Anyway, thanks to all for the warm welcome! Nice to feel at home with such a group of good people. Looking forward to learning more from all of you.

Welcome Ed. If you're in search of some cuttings let me know I'm probably close to you.

Welcome!  Read http://figs4fun.com/basics_Rooting.html before you get cuttings.

Welcome Ed.  Grew up just a bit north of you.  

[QUOTE=Tonycm]Welcome Ed. If you're in search of some cuttings let me know I'm probably close to you.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the offer Tony.  I see you live in Sarver - I grew up in nearby Tarentum (Latin name for Taranto - maybe I should grow the Tarantella fig).  I recall seeing a few fig trees in the 2nd Ward area of Tarentum in childhood.  I am in Irwin now - not too far off.



[QUOTE=rcantor]Welcome!  Read http://figs4fun.com/basics_Rooting.html before you get cuttings.[/QUOTE]
Bob - I have read it over at least 3 times and will likely do so again when I get my first cuttings.  Great to have such a well done demonstration!



[QUOTE=WillsC]Welcome Ed.  Grew up just a bit north of you.  [/QUOTE]
Wherever you are from in W. PA I have probably lived somewhere nearby - between childhood, college and the present I have lived in Conneaut Lake, Darlington, Tarentum, New Wilmington, the Oakland section of Pgh, North Versailles, Hermitage, Herminie and now Irwin. (and 3 yrs in NC and one in AZ - too many moves)

You might be an addict if.... you've added more than ten kinds of figs to your wish list in the last three days
You might be an addict if.... when your driving around and looking into yards to see if there is a fig trees there
You might be an addict if.....you have boxes of damp moss in your closet with sticks stuck in it....
I could go on...
Be welcome Ed, and it is a fun addiction with some great people to share it with...

Alan are you talking about extremist Polar Bear Club type shock or the "Bite down on this" kind?

[QUOTE=GRamaley]You might be an addict if.... you've added more than ten kinds of figs to your wish list in the last three days
[/QUOTE]
I think I might not be up to 10...


[QUOTE=GRamaley]You might be an addict if.... when your driving around and looking into yards to see if there is a fig trees there
[/QUOTE]
I did see a few 6' or so high fig trees in the front yard of a house in Newport KY when I visited my son there last weekend...


[QUOTE=GRamaley]You might be an addict if.....you have boxes of damp moss in your closet with sticks stuck in it....
[/QUOTE]
Well, thats a relief...none of those, so I can't be addicted yet.

Well it doesn't look good for me.  I just found two more that I'd like to put on my wish list.  I have enough cuttings started that my daughter now brings me sticks she finds in the yard and wants me to grow her a tree, and I think I know of all the fig tree's in my neighborhood.

Best defense from fig addiction is probably to never taste a fresh tree grown fig. Next might be to live next door to a fig addict and live vicariously from him or her. Welcome and good luck  

oh, better make that three.  I forgot about the Battaglia Green pictures from yesterday.  That one and the unknown that Marius just posted about I would want for the leaves as much as the figs.  They are beautiful!