This has to be passed on to warn others.

My personal experience is YES . note the following

 My dentist opinioned how he missed the figs that grew in his fathers yard.   In short, I went  there  (walking distance for me)  met the present owner and dug a section of root with suckers out of what is now a weed patch. Potted a 2’ sucker , nursed it for a month and delivered it.  I couldn’t believe how excited he was to get that plant, Mind control?  Next I get a call from his father he found out about to fig and took it back home in the south.  Spent 20 min telling me how thankful he was.  Mind control?   Next son called “can I get him another  fig”?, ‘  I said yes because I should get 6 or 8 next spring from the suckers from the root I kept.  That fig was determined to infect the area with its clones. More mind control.  As I read the forum it apparent that those figs infect and take control of most humans who try to grow  them.  I’ve only had figs trees since spring of 2014 from cuttings,  My wife is accusing me of being in a cult,  I may have to go for  counseling to kick to cult.

 Bill in Maryland

YES.

Must grow figs, must propagate figs, must have more varieties of figs. Figs collect humans not vice versa.(it sounds best if you use monotone)

Hahahaha! I think you might be right. Now that you mention it, the first time I tasted a fresh fig I was suddenly motivated to find a fig tree and plant it. But that wasn't enough. I wanted another one. And another one. It seems your theory holds up. We might be under the influence of the Ficus Hive Mind!

So that is whats happening to me now....

Lol I just posted a thank you post for a couples free trees I received. I think this is a million percent true.

Mind control sure.
It also controls life as well and more so if growing in pots. It is hard to leave the city for long period of time in the fig growing season. But despite all this one keep on adding and keeping.

Yea i only truly been in for i year and have 30 to 40 varieties. Who's counting.

[QUOTE=cis4elk]YES.

Must grow figs, must propagate figs, must have more varieties of figs. Figs collect humans not vice versa.(it sounds best if you use monotone)[/QUOTE]

Lol...yup! Mind control!! I think my family is beibg affected too!

[QUOTE=figpig_66]Yea i only truly been in for i year and have 30 to 40 varieties. Who's counting. [/QUOTE] Funny thing is that i posted how much i love the forum, the fig varieties, etc. then someone posted a response saying that i would soon be propegating cuttings and getting a cloner...I laughed and said "im not that sophisticated!" TODAY: im looking for a cloner (cheapy one) and have gone as far as looking at past posts about making my own (like Harvey's)! Weird!! Ps: i just started into figs this past September!

Fall of 2014, I had 4 fig trees....  one year later I some how have nearly 80....  what was that? "Get more"

Sorry, I have to go the voices are calling to me! !! 

It is scary and somehow comforting to read this! I'm sitting in my living room looking at a wall of Fig trees wondering how I went from 1tree to 13 trees and 10 varieties and a whole frig full of cuttings in a year. Wonderful crazy addiction! Even succumbed to dried figs at the grocery today. Yuck! Need fresh figs! I might still get 6 more with oil on their belly buttons before Father Frost nips them. That would be a delight! To all the figgy friends, blessings of Fig dreams till they are ripe again.

THANK GOD I'M NOT ALONE! Lol, you have no idea how many looks of dismay I pretend not to see on my husbands face every time a new package arrives in the mail.. Oh wait.. Maybe you do know! Yay!

Seriously.. There should be a warning placed on a must-read sticky that warns of this fig sickness.. Although if someone is reading said sticky, it's most likely already too late.. Bwah HA HA!!!!!

We are chosen.  The fig puteth forth it's shoots and the time is near.  Somebody has to repopulate the new world with figs of all likes and manners.  The fig chose us.  We didn't choose it. :) 

Of course they do.  We humans don't give plants enough credit.

There is an interesting book called " Botany of Desire", by Michael Pollan that only looks at a few species, but it's not hard to extrapolate to others such as figs. 

Absolutely.  While it is asinine to hypothesize that fig trees invented the internet, they are clearly making the most of it.  Imagine, if you will, that some of the forum's senior members are in fact fig trees trading cuttings and shipping out extra freebies.  How genius is that???

Signed,

Hello-my-name-is-Sarina-and-I-have-a-serious-fig-problem

[QUOTE=Jamie0507]THANK GOD I'M NOT ALONE! Lol, you have no idea how many looks of dismay I pretend not to see on my husbands face every time a new package arrives in the mail.. Oh wait.. Maybe you do know! Yay! Seriously.. There should be a warning placed on a must-read sticky that warns of this fig sickness.. Although if someone is reading said sticky, it's most likely already too late.. Bwah HA HA!!!!! [/QUOTE]

Lol..."that look of dismay each time a package arrives" XD!  Yup!

[QUOTE=Charlie]We are chosen.  The fig puteth forth it's shoots and the time is near.  Somebody has to repopulate the new world with figs of all likes and manners.  The fig chose us.  We didn't choose it. :) [/QUOTE]

SOMEBODY has to do it, right, Charlie?!

[QUOTE=DonCentralTexas]Of course they do.  We humans don't give plants enough credit.

There is an interesting book called " Botany of Desire", by Michael Pollan that only looks at a few species, but it's not hard to extrapolate to others such as figs. 

[/QUOTE]

This book is on my "To Read" list now!

[QUOTE=Jodi]It is scary and somehow comforting to read this! I'm sitting in my living room looking at a wall of Fig trees wondering how I went from 1tree to 13 trees and 10 varieties and a whole frig full of cuttings in a year. Wonderful crazy addiction! Even succumbed to dried figs at the grocery today. Yuck! Need fresh figs! I might still get 6 more with oil on their belly buttons before Father Frost nips them. That would be a delight! To all the figgy friends, blessings of Fig dreams till they are ripe again. [/QUOTE]

Lol...Jodi!!  Yes, I have asked myself the same question "how did I start to get so nuts about figs? How?!"  Then I come to this forum and suddenly, I feel alright.  Ahhhhhhh.

[QUOTE=figpig_66]Yea i only truly been in for i year and have 30 to 40 varieties. Who's counting. [/QUOTE]

Heck, after the first 6 cuttings, I just figured, eh, why not!  Who's counting is right!

[QUOTE=cis4elk]YES.

Must grow figs, must propagate figs, must have more varieties of figs. Figs collect humans not vice versa.(it sounds best if you use monotone)[/QUOTE]

My husband is ready to buy a second fridge [weeee voice is heard in the background "must buy figs...must buy figs (in monotone)"].

[QUOTE=Smungung]Lol I just posted a thank you post for a couples free trees I received. I think this is a million percent true.[/QUOTE]

Free?! Uh, oh......

Just yesterday my mother had the most strange look I can't even describe when I received more fig trees.

[QUOTE=Smungung]Just yesterday my mother had the most strange look I can't even describe when I received more fig trees.[/QUOTE]

Mathew I am 39 y/o and I too receive that same look from my mom every time she comes over (which is often) and sees a new fig tree OR finds me in my "mom cave" trying to propagate more new trees from cuttings.. I even named one of my nicest trees after her.. SHEESH.. That's the thanks I get.. Lol!

Ummm, true story y'all: Last night I was dreaming about figs. Pruning figs, rooting figs, researching figs. Not even eating figs, just obsessing over the plants. O.o

Okay, Tea, now you're really in trouble!

You can call me Watto - Fig mind tricks don't work on me!
Says the guy building a cloner from a 54 gallon tote solely to propagate fig cuttings.

Andrew

Lol...Watto.

Well, Guys,

One of the earliest photos of me shows me, at 6 months of age, sitting on a blanket in front of one of my grandparents' two fig trees.  I don't recall when I ate my first fig, I was so little, but that would be where and when I became infected/possessed by the fig hunger. It's a hunger than can never be relieved.

It's an infection, an addiction, a possession, an infatuation that never goes away and only grows stronger for the rest of one's life and maybe beyond.

It is actually how fig trees get around, this infestation of the human psyche, so the fig tree can never die out.  Even more clever is how this mind control of the fig is so strong that human fig-nuts don't have the slightest desire to kick the habit.

When I die, I want my urn to be made out of polished fig wood and I want wood from my favorite fig tree (Most likely Figzilla.  If she's still going strong.) to be cremated with me.

I'm so glad to be in such good company.  :)

noss

PS--What is a cloner and how is it made?

Hi,
No they don't do mind control... But wait. What are those pots in my garden?  why are all the branches I cut from my Dalmatie in pots with dirt ? Who did that ? ... :P
I'll see if they'll make it. At least I have none* rooting inside my home !

*: The 2 pots with the two small ground layers of osborn prolific do not count ... They are not Dalmatie :)
The pot on the balcony does not count either as it is not inside and is of an unknown strain ... Damn it !