Just being silly - but it has been a long time since my last visit and I see a lot -- a lot of my buddies have left. Rats!!

Anyway this year was a real change.
I moved myself, my toys and over 600 trees to 65 acres out in the middle of "almost nowhere".
I am now close to Monticello so I can finally get them a few more historic figs I've collected for them (and me - of course).

Reduced my collection by 42 varieties I decided were just not good for zone 7 here in Virginia. Still evaluating everything else. I add varieties, try them for 5 years or more and burn if they don't perform (can't sell or give away large trees I think are inferior for this area).

Spent 10 weeks recovering from an accident with a bear. Yep no &*^% a friggin bear. 

Am going to sell trees and cuttings on Ebay for the first time at mgginva if anyone wants to check if I'm a crook before they bid.
On that subject I will say this:

I agree with Hermann2 completely on the subject of Ebay sales - i.e. you should only sell what you have actually grown and produced your own crop of figs with. Obviously there are certain exceptions but a lot of past f4f forum fights stemmed from folks "finding" figs they then claimed were exceptional. Some just plucked from parking lots and given names only to be marketed as the next "it" variety.
OK - sorry - enough of the sales stuff.
OOPS - last thing - I will be selling cuttings this year for the last time as I am concentrating on selling trees and figs. I hope to have a website up soon. OK - done.

I hope to be able to spend more time here catching up with those I have not heard from for a while.

Welcome to all the newbies!

Adios mis amigos!
mgg