Hello Everyone!

Well last night I decided to bring in my "Brown Turkey" fig
tree in from the garage.
It lost all it's leaves at the first week of October and I put
in the garage on the 18th of October.

We had some real cold spells in those two months, so I
think it was about time to get her started early.
I took a cutting from it three weeks ago and it is rooting and
has leaves on it already.

That really made me  feel secure that the tree had enough of a dormancy.
Right now, it will get ten hours of light and it will gradually get more.
I am coinciding this with my birds, will be breeding at the end of February
or beginning of March.

The birds need a minimum of twelve hours of light to breed, and by then
the fig will be growing very well.

Fingers crossed,

Jerry

That is a great head start but do you think that there's enough light
in the birds room for the figs

I used to breed Canaries at one time, Plants never did well in the same room
they would become stringy and wouldn't do grow well after moving them back outside and I have two sets of 2 tubes of 8' florescent fixtures in that room  

Wish you the best of luck

BTW- what type of birds do you keep

There is plenty of light.
One side is all windows asnd even the door is all glass.

I have European and Siberian Goldfinches.
Or in Italian..Cardelino.

Go to "HOW SOON" and you will see the pictures of the birds.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4076467

Jerry

Buster,  Calgary AB sounds even more extreme than where I live in New Brunswick.  Marjo has it better.

I also brought most of my larger fig trees (about 15 of them, between 4 and 6 feet tall with one or many main stems) into the house when I was worried that the garage would get too cold, but then the weather warmed up, and it never did get below minus 3C out there (about 26F) even this late.  It seems that when the Central US and Europe have a very hard winter, we, in the far North East get it mild.
My trees are in a very large windowed room and get full sun, when it shines.  they are now just breaking out in breba figs, so I am excited about this.  I have overwintered a few figs like this in the house before and had good success with breba figs.  I have other trees buried in a mulch pile and in the garden, and many others - smaller ones - in a cold room.  I am also eating some ripening figs in the same window.  They are slow. and a little smaller than they should be at about 50 grams (should be over 100 grams) and do not develop the color they should have, but when ripe, they are delicious.

It sounds like your going to be OK
with that much light around the figs should be fine

Your Birds look great I had a couple of pairs of Europeans from the Azores
but I didn't have much luck with them also tried Gouldian finches
but they needed to be fostered to society finch or Zebras

I live in Flamborough towards Cambridge
But I work at Rymall one block from Upper Wellington
Small world

Hey Jerry

Though you would like this one 

Its called a Bird dog

Lol, Lol, cute bird dog.

Love the picture.
Also good to hear some folks trying to get a head start on the upcoming season as i also look forward to it.
Now go away snow !