The following link (pick & paste) will help as a starting point: http://figs4fun.com/basics_Pruning.html

Wannabe, I am in San Diego and grow about 250 varieties. Send me an e-mail, and we can get together and share some ideas. Saturdays are good days for me. The secret is in the pruning and the variety. See http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg0101451422263.html http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg0101295826411.html http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg0101490623831.html Mission is an agressive grower, so might not be appropriate, depending on space.

I take cuttings 6-8 inches long off the ends of branches. They should be the diameter of a pencil. Also, branches that you need to prune can be cut in sections to be rooted. I take my cuttings during the dormant season.

Raistlyn: One suggestion if you want to get your husband into gardening. Get him into super hot peppers such as Bhut Jolokia or Butch T Scorpions or habs. That's what got me interested, and I know many other guys find the super hots peppers very interesting even when you don't like to eat them. They are enough of a challenge, something to brag about and have fun with, and sometimes toys (which guys also like) such as heat mats and controllers, lighting systems, hydroponic etc also piques their interest as well as building things like raised beds and stairs for pots to sit on. It happened to me, and now I look after all the vegetables, indoor and out, fruit trees, berries etc. and I love it. My wife looks after the ornamentals. I keep adding more vegetable beds and containers, and we are self sufficient for fruit and vegetables for much of the year, including freezing many of them. I also got into cooking doing things like salsa and hot sauces as well as other things that can be made out of the fruits of our labor. Every guy has the farmer gene in him. Looking after a couple of tomato plants in a window or on deck is not quite what we need to turn that gene on.