Too George's point,
Managing a lot of trees can be a lot of work, I just finished bringing in over 150 potted trees and 200 cups, annual dance of a fig tree grower. Luckily, I had my greenhouse almost completed. The potted trees "probably" would be okay if left out but I wanted to insure having good trees in the early Spring.
I have had 3 calls to come and look at "collections" (2 fig, 1 Mayhaw) to see if I wanted to buy them, funny thing, all calls were in November. I would imagine that this has happened to many people and in one of the cases, they were simply left to die from neglect, piled up and burned.
Over in the Tyler Texas area there is an in ground fig orchard that covers 12-15 acres and has not been touched in 15 yrs, when the owner passed away. Most of these trees have survived because of good dirt, and sufficient rain. The man used to pick figs every day and sell them at the Dallas Farmers Market. All this was told to me by a son of the man.
Think of how many newbies we see show up on he forum, get a lot of cuttings/trees and soon are no longer seen around any more, what happened to their "collections" ?.
Too bad that there isn't a fig shelter where unwanted trees could be dropped off.
The price for the "collection" listed in this thread seems like a good deal when compared to retail prices in my area.
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