Hi all, this is my first post on figs4fun and I'm excited to read more. My wife and I recently moved from Texas (8b/9a) to PA (6b, 7a, depending on who you ask). I enjoyed growing figs in Texas and I'm looking for a mostly-carefree variety to grow up here.
I've recently purchased a few fig trees to give a try up here: Celeste, Brown Turkey, and Hardy Chicago. I plan to plant them in my Grandma's orchard and see how they do. Any tips or other varieties I might try? Any others growing in this area that might have some cuttings to share?
So enough introduction. I was walking around outside today and noticed that a neighbor had a fig tree just sitting outside in a ~7g pot. I asked about it and he said that he had just set it there for the winter. It looked healthy to me (no wrinkled-looking tips/wood that would seem to indicate dead wood/cold damage). I asked what variety it was and he said he hadn't the faintest idea, that it was a variety that his grandmother had grown close by. The weird part is that it got down to the low single digits this year (4-6 degrees). What varieties would be able to stand this kind of cold with seemingly no protection and no damage?