I've got to start checking the weather more closely.  Deep freeze (into the 20s) not only for NJ but much of New England and the Mid Atlantic states.  I still have a couple of figs in a sunny, protected spot...but temps of 25-26 degrees won't be good for them.  Hopefully other folks won't get caught off guard.
Cheers,
Jim

Sadly, I knew about the weather forecast and still didn't manage to get my in ground figs protected. Life got too busy. I never managed to buy tarps.  I'll be viewing this as the first cold hardiness test of my plants.

It isn't just New England and the mid Atlantic the forecast low for central Florida is 29 tonight............  lucky for me i'm on a lake and it should buffer it some but I am still guessing 33 and that is damn cold for us in November.  

The funny thing is, as I was moving my last few remaining pots inside, it occurred to me that I DID know it was supposed to get cold.  I saw the long term forecast at the end of last week and spent time over the weekend prepping my storage area!  But somehow between Saturday and Monday I forgot!  (A mind is a terrible thing to waste!!!! ;-)  I mean, I moved most of my figs on Saturday, but I left some of the hardier ones out...
Jim

Next week it will be in the 60's in Fair Lawn NJ !

Just don't have the time to do move them indoors yet.  Hoping they can stand one night of 20 degree temps. 

Like WillsC said, it's not just the northeast and mid atlantic looking at freezing temps.  It is 9 degrees here in SW Missouri right now.  Brrrrrrr!!!  Figs in the garage and temp in there is 37 degrees. 

I spent most of the weekend protecting in-ground trees and moving my containers into the garage.  Unfortunately I only got (at best) half of my in-ground trees properly protected.  So last night I bought more tarps and did a quick and dirty winter protection on some additional ones.  The ones that weren't protected at all are Mt Etnas, Malta Black, SalsC types, and a Dalmatie type.  They tend to be good sized with around 2 inch in diameter trunks so hopefully they will be ok.  My concern is that they aren't fully dormant though and will experience more damage because of this.

Record low of 22 F for Tallahassee FLorida. Not a good start to winter---and it ain't even winter yet!

Frank, take care of the Alma sisters.

zone 6b Connecticut 

 

This thread is depressing lol

How many days until May?

It feels like the beginning of a new ice age. 13F last night with a lot of wind. I got all but 4 trees into the garage and none of the in ground trees covered.
Hardiness test set in motion.
I can't wait until spring to start building my long awaited greenhouse.

...I have two nice Brown Turkey figs ripening up in my living room as we speak.  It ain't over yet!!!!!!
Jim
PS ...and the previous one's I've eaten over the last few weeks were GOOD GOOD GOOD!!!!

Was doing the fig shuffle last night in the rain.  And the dark.  Supposed to go down to the mid-20's tonight.  Fingers crossed for my 2 old unprotected inground trees.

All of my trees are in ground including my TC trees bought in May and cuttings rooted earlier in the year. Most of the varieties are just going dormant, but I have already had some tips get cold fried on my mission. Should I cut the frost burned parts off or wait until spring? I am a bit concerned about rot. Last year my hardy Chicago had some tips do the same thing when it got down to 5° and come spring I just snipped those parts off after the trees started growing.

I got everything into the garage this afternoon, a lot of the smaller pots were frozen solid, I hope it's not curtains for them.

Rich,
  This is a bit off the topic of the weather, but do your CdD B figs happen to have flat stems?  Like if you took a round stem and squeezed it between your thumb and fingers until it was flatter...like twice as high as they are wide??
Jim

My one in ground fig and a few other fruiting plants were covered a few days ago. plant pots over top and leaves covering them fenced in with chicken wire. 15 degrees now, 60 this weekend....

It was 15 this morning and only 39 now .  This coming Monday it's going to be 69!  Ha!  You gotta love the South!

It was -7F here yesterday morning still have my colasanti #3 inground that has not been protected yet oops poor thing gets blasted every year and never dies. Lets hope it makes it through this time