Earlier in the year I thought I fared better. But that appears not to be he case. I wanted to give an update so as not to mislead anyone.

In grounds

Celeste - dead; Negronne - dead; Black Mission - dead, VDB - lost most of it, growing from the bottom; Panachee - cut back four feet of die back, just saw a bud today at about two feet from ground, Italian Red - growing ok, but suffering a bit, Atreano - doing very well, Hardy Chicago - lost eight feet of die back, now growing from bottom.


Pots - in unheated attached garage

25 gallons - most did well, lost a Wuhan and Black Madeira

5 gallons - lost 90% of everything

1 Gallon - lost everything

Going to concentrate on 25 gallons and cut way back this year.

Steve,
I didnt fare any better with most of my potted 5 gallons and 1 gallons in an unheated, insulated  attached space, I lost all of those.

The 5 gallon and 1 gallons that were in a minimally heated space fared much better, the 5 gallons and 1 gallons have already leafed out some with several breba.

Lesson learned... Install a thermostatically controlled heat source (Electric Ceramic) in the winter storage area for those brutally cold periods.

Steve

Buy a kerosene space heater with thermostat w timer, I think you will find you do not lose any containerized plants in winter, it is a relatively small investment compared to your collection and its value, both sentimental and monetary.

I definitely have a prejudice against kerosene heaters. I remember houses burning down from these. Are they much safer than they used to be? No amount of figs trump safety.

Steve this year I used an electric heater but supposedly that is more dangerous than kerosene.

once upon a time, electric heaters were dangerous because they didn't have an auto shut off when knocked over. they do now.

i use them every winter.

I had a wick type heater that did not heat very well and had allot of issues with the wick hardening up needing to be replaced often. I used kerosene from a supplier whose contact information came with the heater.

I switched back to a 55 kbtu tube type forced air heater I have been using for years. Once the garage is warmed up it will stay warm for many hours.

zone 7a NC my sweet monster tree is just now starting to sprout now. Mostly from the roots. One branch has little green nubs but only about a half a foot up from the ground. Was a 15 foot healthy tree in the fall. 

BTW the grapes ( Mars, Marquis and Reliance) we planted last year a going crazy this year even though I pruned them and trained them "Top Wire Cordon" method this winter. Looks to me like they are a year ahead of schedule in growth and we will get grapes this year.

The fig trees that I usually visit have all started new growth, IMO they will produce figs before Fall, but most may not ripen since they are breaking buds more than a month late.
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Joe most of the old timers around here have cut their trees down to stumps and painted the stumps with tar. From the street you can't even tell there used to be a fig tree there previously...

The other day on 154th & 12th ave I noticed a whole bunch of trees in the front yards ... Lifeless with CD's hanging from them.

Is the tar just to keep Things from eating the healthy tree?

I think it's to seal the wound

In post # 42 on Page 1 I showed a picture of a bare tree. 3 weeks later, take a look at her leafing out nicely. Now that is a cold-hardy survivor, no protection whatsoever last winter. JoeAthens that's the tree we talked about, alive and well!

Great tree!  We need cuttings of that one in our breeding programs.

Bob it is a nice producer, mostly "unifera" with a rare breba, plump nice sized green figs with red center, owner used to be an italian immigrant. I posted pics a year ago asking for identification of unknown, but no one was able to help me id. You can look up the thread.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/help-identify-delicious-northeastern-fig-need-id-6489235?pid=1279220832&full_version=1

very impressive tree raf. i hope you can find a way to propagate it for those of us with nasty winters.

WOWEE Raf, that tree is a monster. You can't beat fig trees from the Boroughs