I have about 60 trees in my collection Last year is the first year that I stored them in my new unheated greenhouse , they all started to pop about early March except for one tree the Vesuviana Bianca the one tree that has the most sentimental meaning  to me  so I put all my trees out mid May and hoped it was just a slow starter , it started to die back a little on the top so I kept clipping the top off and just hoping it would come back I checked it every day hoping for a bud to pop nothing around 3 weeks ago I put it in the greenhouse thinking maybe the extra heat would do something because I saw no hope for the tree and by now it is June 30th and still nothing well low and behold I go into the greenhouse 2 days ago July 2nd and every node there is a bud popping , now I am very very happy!  I know it has been talked about on the site before don't throw anything away you never know. 

       

Dave I'm very glad for you.:-) :-)
Vito

Great news,

I did lose all of my potted trees, VdB, albique petite, and a few unknowns as well ans lost some in ground trees. all my inground trees where top killed over winter. i did lose a osbourne proliffic, black bethlehem, and one of my RdB trees. things didnt look to good for my hardy chicago i had for 5 years. but today after bringing the wife home from the hospital (she had cancer on her thyroid) i noticed that the HC has 2 little sprouts starting out below the soil line next to the 3 inch diam trunk which was top killed as well.

just goes to show that you never can tell. only time can tell.

Dave, hope things are OK with your wife, and glad to hear that your HC is still hanging on.

Kind regards

thanx, shes fine. throte is sore from the surgery but they said they got it all. she just needs to heal up a bit.

I cut 18-20 inches off the top of my Hardy Chicago in the spring because it all looked dead. But at the last min I cut it into 3 pieces and laid it sideways it in a pot and covered it with a little dirt. Two of the three "dead" cuttings are growing now, slowly, but they are growing. Figs are just plain tough.

I'm happy to hear they got it all Dave and your wife will be ok. Also glad to hear ya'lls trees are coming back to life.

illinois winters are rough and wet. we had more than the norm for below zero temps this past winter. i am shocked i only lost the ones i did. really sad about the black bethlehem though. but what i have learned will be great info for the fig nuts in colder zones. this fall i will post my findings as to what made it, what fruited ect.

Thanks Vito I'll post some photos when the leaves pop 

Good story Dave, thanks for sharing the experience.
 I have a similar case and learned my lesson really fast.
it's not a tree but never to give up on darn cuttings, LOL

here's why!

 
This pot was thrown in the corner of my old terrace and never got transferred to the new one where all the new grads are because the shoots had dried out after wilting away with NO REASO , didn't even bother watering after that, just never had the chance to empty the few pots to reuse... yesterday I found a surprise, put a silly smile on my face. Go figure.

Yep you never know Aaron from now on if they look like they aren't going to make it or dead over in the corner they go these fig trees are very resilient 

I had received a Desert King several months ago from a dear friend but she didn't give much hopes because it was an abused branch and from a failed grafting project... of course after a month of struggle it finally died so i pulled it and threw away out of my site. a month later my 3 heal old son finds it in the bushes and bring back and throws it in the same water can that I had been rooting some eatable capri figs...i saw it only a weak later from that day that my son had found it and by then this poor cutting had revived it's last bottom node and had thrown 3 roots from under the node. when I saw it I was laughing my sucks off so I cut the above last node dead part and planted it. Now that node has given a shoot which is about 3 inches and had split into 3 branches from the top. :)
Thant's what I call coming back with revenge. 

I have seen threads like this before and I had not experienced this yet myself until just yesterday. This spring my CDDN died back to the ground and I thought that I had lost it, but I remembered hearing about plants coming back so I saved it and kept watering. There were several times in June when I was ready to toss it but I didn't. Then to my surprise, yesterday I found a shoot coming up through the soil. I am glad I didn't throw it away. 

Two of my trees showed a small bit of green yesterday as well! Only one remains questionable now.

Good new for all you people who are still seeing "dead" trees come back.  I can't bring myself to toss out a few sticks that I am sure a goners.

July 6th and a Hardy Chicago I gave my Dad is just starting to break bud. Amazed me! Truly, I had counted this one out. It sat in his garage all winter and he never watered it. July 6th?