The resilient Fig tree (or so I thought)

Here's a picture of the fig tree with the Christmas lights that didn't last very long...

The story goes like this.

I have a really good friend named David. He used to work at a greenhouse and knows tons about plants and stuff. So, when he moved from Winnipeg to Montreal to go and take his Masters, he had some things he needed to give away. One of these was his fig tree. Now, I have never had any luck with plants. They don't seem to like me very much. So, I was hesitant - but David assured me this was a really resilient tree. You only have to water if once a week, and if you forget a few times it doesn't really matter. You could prune it every once in a while if it's getting too big for you (which I haven't had the guts to do yet), and all in all, it's a pretty tough plant. So, I adopted it. We had it when we were renting my sisters house and then when we moved took it with us. Well, I guess it had grown a great deal since the first transport, because we had to bend some of the branches. I thought it was fine - Andrew was a little worried. So just as we were taking it out of the car to put into the new house - a branch broke - but didn't snap off. So, I asked a friend at work (who also knows a lot about plants) how to fix it (or if it could be fixed at all). He told me to wrap a cloth around the spot where it was broken to secure it and to water that part of it. Well, it worked. After a month or two, the branch could hold it's own. It had a little scar, but other that that it was pretty much healed.

Now, don't go cheering just yet...

I thought it would look pretty to have Christmas lights on it this year. So, I proceeded to put lights on the resilient fig tree. Well, the "healed" branch broke again. POOP!! And it was doing so well. So here's my way of fixing it (it kinda' blends in, NOT)!!