Re: temps below 40 degrees - do temps that low but above freezing with no frost affect brebas?  Somewhere I thought I read that brebas were negatively affected by low temps.

haha, I only have one breba on a tacoma violet, but its very misshapen so i'm not sure if it will survive anyway.  I don't have a greenhouse or shed and I kept them in my basement so they broke dormancy about a month ago and have been growing...slowly.
Thanks for getting the worry out of me haha!

Update as well on the weather: forecast low temps for this week is mid-40's - no way these will impact your figs in Catonsville. :-) and the high temps close to 70 daily, we'll take it!

Topic: Starting New Figs from Twigs

I know that a lot of folks get the fig bug during the Winter doldrums and start cuttings as soon as they can.

- Pros: makes you feel good; plants get started and are growing for a month or more, large starter trees, etc
- Cons: gnats and bugs all over; leggy growth; lots of heating and lighting requirements; lots of messing with getting things right and then keeping them right as plants gain height; dry indoor rooms during Winter means working harder to keep humidity at optimum levels; etc.

This year, I started my cuttings a LOT later, I took my Celeste pruning cuttings and had them in a sealed baggie, in unheated garage for a long time. A few weeks ago, I took a few of these cuttings, placed them in cups with a coco coir/perlite mix, sealed them with baggies overtop to keep moisture in, and they are growing. Pushing buds, then nice new leaves. No messing with roots and all those stages where most ppl mess up, no indoor gnat issues, more sun through windows, etc. I can leave these plants like this for a long time as roots get larger and larger. Then one up pot and I'm good for the Summer.

Here are a few pix of the process.

Pix one, baggie off to take clearer pix.

Pix two, cuttings in cups covered in baggies.

In pix three, you can see that I keep the lid on using the center straw hole to hold the cutting and keep more moisture trapped down with the roots.

Greetings all. After a massive set of thunderstorms rolled through the area yesterday, nice sunny warm day today. Figs are loving it! Wanted to provide a quick update on my Black Madeira that I started from a UC Davis cutting last year.

For reference take a look back to posting #58, pix no. 1, taken 28 March.

And here it is today.

Good news.  My figs I planted horizontally and covered with a bit of dirt last fall largely survived.  I have since planted many in ground similarly.  Will post photos when I get to it if there is interest.

Greetings all. It's been a pretty good fig season here for me in Maryland. Been picking an awful lot and bringing them in to share with co-workers. Here's a Brown Turkey that we just picked and ate yesterday.