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Coming Out or Winter Storage

I have been wheeling my plants in an out as weather dictates here in my area and now most have small leaves .
Several not so good though, ronde de bordeaux looks dead a healthy plant last season topped at about 4ft limbs are that rusty bad color for fig plants at this stage and very brittle as i broke a few. Santa cruz looks the same if not worse but the other one i have is slowly breaking bud.
One other plant may make it buts it is struggling with no bud break .
I will give report when i know for sure whats what with my plants, it was not a very cold winter for these in storage but some of these newer ones are not as hardy as i had hoped like my others were when they went thru there first year in storage.

In preparation for the 24F forecast for Thursday night (& 28F in between) I am bringing in all my plants in-house (one year old in-house and older ones to the garage). It is a lot of work and hopefully pays off due to head start of the last couple of weeks. I have setback only on two plants so far (Capela & Pastillier unknown).
Can you imagine my wife says I can bring them in and place them anywhere I want as long as it is for a week only!  It could become a long one week not covered by any Calendar in the house.

Thought i would post this often talked about but not seen much on forum picturewise upclose. Sad to say this was a 4 ft Ronde De Bordeaux .
Deadwood from my fig tree i cut today , fig tree itself was badly damage.
What i never notice was 2 limbs had split from trunk in storage maybe someone bump it hard i dont know. Anyways i cut one off and sealed the one that was not as bad, tree may or may not sprout a bud at bottom or shoot up a sucker if it does i will let it grow and propagate it and get rid of this one period.The inside of this wood is dry as can be and the sticks themselves for the newer member are light as a feather compared to one normal scion same size for lack of any moisture content within.
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Sorry to hear about your Ronde de Bordeaux ,if I remember correct it was several years old plant hope you will not loose this tree.
I had this oil heater in my garage so temps didn`t felt lower then F 25 ,all my figs are fine ,next winter I must have heater on again since there will be bunch of 1 year old plants.

Hi Remis,
this was one year old plant.
The other one similar to this is santa cruz dark but its lower trunk looks much better although the limbs also are dead, the brother to it another santa cruz dark is fine all stored next to each other with blue tarp hung down from wall for wind protection when door opens , all other trees were not protected.
Also for an idea i never heat my garage but thats just me, im betting the ronde would have had some limb damage but nothing like this and i think the very deep cracked limb at soil level had something to do with it. My much smaller 1 year olds some a foot tall had no damage which im happy to say because some of these are hard to replace such as the ronde if i dont get a shoot growing on it. I did cut up that cracked limb and saved a piece to propagate but i have my doubts as it also was very dried out but i have no choice other than that trunk opening one bud or a sucker. Time will tell shortly.


martin, when you move south, your figs can fend for themselves in your yard:).   mine are coming back from the roots now. 

Concerning the Ronde De Bordeaux, the bark had split open near the base of tree which has one main trunk. At the time i cut everything above that point completely dead and cut a wedge at the split and sealed it as i saw a splinter of hope at the node  2-3 inches above soil level.
It now has a bud that swelled and its beginning to open.
1 of 2 santa cruz darks i had dead the other healthy and dropped all breba recently.
Sals corleone looks dead and was cut several inches from soil level, 2 weeks ago it sprouted a tiny leaf near edge of small container until i poked around with finger in soil and knocked it right off , dont ask why i did that it was an idiotic thing to do i know.
I give it a more time to see what happens with it.

Dieseler
I lost almost one third of my newly rooted plants in one-gallon pots when placed in 5' x 9' (5' high) tarp-top temporary greenhouse when temperatures reached 34 deg C (93F) during the current heat wave. I should have realized that the inside temperature will be far above 34C. I just wanted to provide shade and should have left the two ends open which I did not. The others have brown leaves but green tips and hopefully will survive even if the leaves are dropped later. I will take it as a learning experience.
BTW my home grown seedlings of cucumbers, zucchinis and bitter-melons were dried up and have to be restarted.

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