I'm fairly new to growing figs (I have had a turkey fig for a few years) but last year I purchased several new var. - Texas blue giant, pan. (tiger fig), black Italian, desert King and Violette Bordeaux (sp?)  Of course as luck would have it this winter was one of the coldest ones we have had in many many years.  So far my turkey is almost fully leafed out.  My Texas blue giant and Desert King are putting out leaf buds now but the Italian black and the Violette so far have no growth what so ever.  no sign of leaf buds or anything.  I was thinking they are dead but I took my finger nail and scratched the bark of both of them and they are as green as green can be under the bark so why no growth?  Thanks for any input or advice.

also forgot to mention the tiger fig is almost compleatly leafed out as well

I am having the same issue with a Ronde of Bordeaux I purchased a couple months back.  It's the only one of my bunch that hasn't put out any real growth yet.  The bark itself is still green when scratching underneath, but nothing has come through.  The terminal bud broke in shipping, not sure if this has anything to do with the lack of growth.

I'm giving it a few more weeks.  I saw in another thread where folks in the south were saying their Celeste was still dormant, so, some figs are obviously still sleeping.  I would give it some time. 

Give it a good scratch if its a dull green thats not a good sign it should be nice green color. Also if the oter bark is that rust color thats a bad sign as well.
I lost 3 this season, but give them a chance you never know.

Aaron, They are just messin' with you,

I noticed the following observation this year after bringing my dormant plants out. It may not be a common occurrence but this is what I observed:

1. Those plants stored in the cold storage in the basement where the temperature never wend below 5C (41F) have leafed faster than the ones (duplicates) which I stored in the unheated/uninsulated garage (though well clothed, fully protected) where the temperature reached down to -18C (-1 F). So the ones in the garage much have gone through some kind of deep dormancy and waking up slowly.
2. Irrespective of storage location (basement or cold garage), the branches with terminal buds are leafing out earlier than the nodes on the branches where the terminal buds were pruned in the fall.

This has been my experience thru out the years with my plants coming out of dormancy and damaged branches. This season as stated in post 3 some plants were completely dead.  Here is what i meant in post 3 concerning color .
Hold mouse over picture it will say dead or alive.
Only 1 picture shows alive . Rust color branches can be a bad sign and light green can also be a bad sign in my case they were.
Nice green color is good sign i tried to capture in the 1 alive picture the green has like a shine to it but did not show in picture, where the light faded green has a dullness to it and that part is dead on my plant.

Akram, yes i believe and it may have been Al (not totally sure though) on Gw there are several stages of dormancy similar to ones stages of sleep at night where rem would be i think the deepest for humans.