Newcomer here, I have ordered a Cvetko (and Ronde de Bordeaux), and wondering if anyone else has any experience growing this variety and can testify to it's hardiness??

We get some cold weather here but milder in comparison to the rest of Canada, with the exception of British Columbia, of course. :) 

I am told it has a great taste and grows a large fig fruit. I would love to hear how others are fairing with this variety and any tips would be kindly received. 

Ron

Welcome to the forum Ron. 
I don't know about Cvetko but someone else may.
How long have you been a grower of figs and what else do you grow in your green house ?

Thanks for the welcome Sam. 

I ordered Cvetko and RdB just the other day actually. I have never grown fig but figured I would give it a shot. 

As for the green houses I have started Issai Kiwi, concord grape, and goji berry. It was only put in last year so, and expecting some fruit soon. 

The greenhouse will be good for ripening up the figs that get a late start.
I have a 2 year old hardy kiwi that flowered for me last summer but unfortunately no flowers on the male vine.
I also started some arctic kiwi's that I received from a member here.
It was a cool summer for sure as my grapes didn't ripen well enough.
I'm still trying to get my goji berry to fruit. I found two small flowers in october and this plant is three years old from a seed.
Maybe this summer will be better.

Yeah, I figure I will need the greenhouse for the heat for sure.

I also grew my goji from seed. It was a learning experience. I did not put any store bought fertilizer on it and though I did improvise later, it would have been probably been better if I used some earlier on.

The person whom I got the Cvetko says it is not listed as hardy, at least for my zone, but tasty nevertheless. An early fruiting fig variety. :)

Do you grow your figs in a greenhouse or outside? I know you get warm temperatures more consistently then where I am. We have the ocean with her moods next to us. hehe

I grow them in pots partly buried in the ground so the roots will have more room during the summer and then in the fall I pull up the pots and put them into cold storage where they will finally wake up about mid April. 
The trees that still have fruit on them in the fall I bring them inside and let them ripen in front of a window. 

Burying them partially underground is a great idea! I will have to try that. AS for the Cvetko fig tree, it will have to be brought inside and stored. Bringing it in when it cools is definitely on my list to do. .Thanks.

In respect to your goji, aka "Wolfberries are self pollinating, and do not require bees, but bees and other pollinators do come to the blossoms."

I am willing to bet if the bees come it will only enhance things.

Hi Ron welcome to the forum!

I have been curious about that Cvekco also. I assume you ordered that from Brugsmansia?

In regards to your Issai kiwi you should get a male arguta hardy kiwi to pollinate it. Don't believe the hype about it being self pollinating lol. I can send you a rooted cutting later this summer if you'd like?

Good luck with the figs!

Tyler

Hey Tyler, 

When I first the Issai, it flowered and started to fruit but it never took off, the fruit that I did have was fragile and fell off...they are vigorous growers. I will take you up on that offer on a male as I hear that increases fruit production. :) Have you sent anything like this through the mail before?

AS for the Cvetko, you guessed it right.

The owner says he it comes from a friend of his and it is one of his favorites for productivity and flavor.

Ron

Bees love goji flowers. I have been trying to take notice of which plants the native solitary bees bees like the best, and the native bees here really go for the goji. I started mine 2 summers ago from a extremely small dormant plant that looked like it wouldn't grow, but I was very wrong. It is planted on the south side of a white shed and it fruited some the first year and tons this last year. Fresh goji are alright, but I am really looking forward to making more preserves; the flavor is subtle but rich and strangely reminiscent of yams but better. I'm Not sure about hardiness though. We had our coldest temps in a few years and when I was out pruning my peach tree the other day I checked out the goji a bit, there was green in the twigs that I cut but they seemed dry. We will see this spring how much die back I get, there was none in it's first winter.

Ron,

I will get a couple rooted this year and send them after they go dormant but before the winter so you can get them planted. Just pm me your address.

Tyler