I posted about fig hunting but now, figs are showing up at my door step!

[LouNeo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LouNeo]

A couple weeks ago I spoke with a neighbor 5 or 6 houses down that has a pretty yard and a bunch of trees he has planted throughout it. I asked him if he had any fruit trees and he said he did not. We talked briefly about figs and he mentioned his mother had one in her yard, so I told him to grab a couple branches and I could get him a couple small trees out of it to plant in his yard to carry the tree on. I came home today to a few small branches on top of my trash barrel in the driveway. They are finding me now! haha I will root some for myself and see what it turns out to be. After I give him a couple small rootlings I will be sure to mention that airlayering might be a great option as well At the very least it will make good root stock.

These were found we we got home from driving around scouting more fig trees. We found another 12 trees today and when my girlfriend saw these in the driveway she honestly had no idea what to say and just walked in the house LOL

[andreas-patras Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close andreas-patras]

plants must be slowly taking over her life...
i think you are ok for now, as long as you dont get to the dirty look stage

[LouNeo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LouNeo]

haha been getting dirty looks for months

[andreas-patras Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close andreas-patras]

something tells me you are attached to another object by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis
and dont even know it.

[COGardener]

In what way is he screwed Andreas?

[andreas-patras]

@ COGardener

possibly more ways than one... but i would not dare to guess ;-)

[BrooklynMatty Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close BrooklynMatty]

something tells me you are attached to another object by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis
and dont even know it.

Love the big bang reference Andreas. Be careful with the hobby though, we don't want you going too far down the rabbit hole and making her think you're crazy. I mean, i'm sure you are already for figs, but you need to learn to hide the addiction

[LouNeo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LouNeo]

The addiction is strong. I will tell you though, she can now spot a fig tree peeking around a house from 250 ft away. Im proud of her

[don_sanders Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close don_sanders]

That's awesome.

Might be time to take her out for a night on the town.

[LouNeo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LouNeo]

I agree, id might try to see if shes up for a lunch date instead (harder to spot figs at night)

[don_sanders]

Lol

[Dave Veteran Find all posts View Profile Close Dave]

You got a good girl friend at least she didn't put them in the garbage LOL I gave a couple of cuttings to a friend of mine which he rooted and eventually potted up in one gallon pots I stopped over to see how they were doing and he said his wife threw them in the garbage she didn't like the way how they looked on the refrigerator in the garage ??????????

[COGardener]

I would have dug them out and replaced them with her.

[Visceral Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Visceral]

You got a good girl friend at least she didn't put them in the garbage LOL I gave a couple of cuttings to a friend of mine which he rooted and eventually potted up in one gallon pots I stopped over to see how they were doing and he said his wife threw them in the garbage she didn't like the way how they looked on the refrigerator in the garage ??????????

I didn't realize that the garage affected the decor of a house. Maybe he should have tossed some of her hobby interests in the trash as well because they messed up the Feng Shui.

[Dave]

I told him he should of read to her ezekiel 25:17 The Path of the Righteous Man it would of realigned his Feng Shui

[Visceral]

Haha, yes indeed.

[LouNeo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LouNeo]

One thing im lucky with is she cant reach very high so I tend to put the fig stuff higher up just as a safety precaution But she has put up with way more than anyone else would lol. I do most of my rooting on the kitchen table and I have a plant stand that has had over 600 seedlings on it, in the corner of the kitchen. Lets not even start talking about the garage or the rack of almost 100 1 gallon figs in my office. Eeek.

[Dave]

I hear you I got plastic totes in front of every radiator all over the house it's just part being married to a Fig Monger

[LouNeo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LouNeo]

She just reminded me that she bought me a 36 site cloner for valentines day and that too is in the kitchen. haha woops

[Dave]

Are you kidding 36 site cloner for Valentine's Day it might be time to bring your relationship to the next level LOL

[LouNeo]

haha I think she tells me the same thing often but all I hear is Fiiiiiiiiigs