Well, I made the jump and started rolling mine out.  I may dred it later but when you have 18 inches of growth on a tree with brebas popping out....ya gota do something!  My Paradiso is leading the pack right now in growth.  We got rain mostly all day today.  I will be fertilizing them all tomorrow.  Pictures coming....

 With great thanks to H, here are cuttings from a Magnolia fig and a Strawberry Verte. They wintered over in my garage where the temperature never was lower than 55°F. They now are in residence in my office window.  Happy guy here!

Moved my Red Lebanese and Ronde de Bordeaux out of garage usually get one more freeze around end of april, we will see.

Greetings,

My dormant potted figs are coming to life as well.

Hey Chuck

I over winter my potted figs (about 30 trees) in our attached, unheated sunroom that I keep darkened throughout winter. A month ago or so I open up the blinds and increase watering. To give you an idea how cold it gets, when we had that cold snap awhile back, water in my fountains actually formed a sheet of ice. These buds really just started to pop this past week to ten days.

I've read that it really is the cold temperatures that keep plants dormant. Once the daytime temps start to get in the 50's and low 60's and above freezing at night, it's pretty much hard to keep them dormant. You might have to start the fig shuffle.

Ok, getting use to my iMAC is interesting.  Copying and pasting works great!  Sorry for the messy photos but I have so many breaking out that I have to take a few day off work just to get them out.  Those inside the garage are inside their new SWP that I've prepped.  Tomorrow they will be repotted and rolled to the yard.  In this first picture in the white half barrel is Smith.  Its one of my larges container trees.  It was in my orchard but was in a bad spot.  Instead of relocating it, I just placed it in a SWP using Bill's design.  The rest are too many to name.  But these pics were taken 2 days ago.

Cool pics Dennis. They look way more awakened than mine. Buds are nice and green but something is kinda holding them back(mine). The whole army has been outside since Friday and loving it. Here is a pic of my Peters honey with the first brebas showing! The rest are on the same stage . The inground trees are probably a couple of weeks behind with minimal swelling showing here and there and I trust those the most . They know something we don't! Let's c what happens! We will have a low of 41 F on Wed night!

Dennis, the photos are great, nice quality compared to mine. The only comment that I have is that you truly have the most understanding and wonderful wife in all of "fig kingdom".

Dennis,

That looks like a few cups of coffee worth of work my friend.

First to show signs of  breaking dormancy was the hybrid DFIC0023, now building a dense canopy.

 
 Zidi is not only leafing out fast just like all other... but also showing bouquets of early figs just like if they were 'brebas'...
These figs will most certainly fail to grow and soon will come down for lack of pollination.

 
With the exception of the genuine brebas, all other single crop fruit be it persistent or caducous, showing this early fruit growth will most probably  drop.

Francisco
Portugal
(equiv. to zone 11)

Nice photos everyone. :)

Dennis, very impressive that you have so many. No wonder you have to take off from work to deal with them!

May only be a BT, but after the winter we had it feels like a Dall'Osso!

Dave - congrats on the fig. Perhaps you could put a rubberband around its waist as it grows, and it would really look like a Dall Osso. ;)

Thanks Wayne! I've been out tinkering with my trees all day today. I finally came in the house and called it quits at 7PM and ate dinner. Having a lot of trees does come with a cost! I just bought my second GH from Northern Tool. It will arrive next week. I told the wife about it over lunch today. To make her happy, I'm gonna have to go buy a new gazebo, buy and install new hardwood flooring for the hall and master bedroom. I just bought the wood flooring and thresholds. Next, I'll be calling my handyman to come and do his thing!!! I don't have time for honey-dos! Ha!

Good eye Chuck! In that photo are 7 Poms, 3 Paw Paws, and 3 Jujubes.

Thanks Gina! We had excellent weather today, around 80....and 80 again tomorrow! Yea! I have a lot more to do!

Yuma, AZ--zone 10--91 degrees today--My Imp Brown Turkey bush has 8"-12" new growth on all limbs, some brebas 1/2 developed, many more pea to marble size. Conradia & Kadota not far behind. Cuttings I started mid-February being up-potted to 5 gallon pots this week. Also grapes are budding out very nicely. This old Montana boy does not miss snow and cold!!!! sdpops