It was sunny on Saturday, and the temperature is above 40F. So I moved a couple plants outdoor for a couple of hours. The wind is about 20 MPH. That's what I got after two hours of sun and wind. The tree is alive, just want to share with you that be careful when move indoor plants to outdoor. Either sunburn or windchill or both to create such dehydration on the leaf.

The good news is that it doesn't look fatal.

Some of our OG members here have named it the "fig shuffle."  Plants outdoors for a little while to get some sun, than back indoors or under shade cloth for protection, back and forth many many times in the spring as daytime temps begin to warm up but it still gets cold at night.

My cuttings (those that survived this year), and potted trees are outdoors at the moment under shade cloth with my tomato starts.   I even take the cups off for an hour or so...but you definately have to keep checking on them.    I have a green rooted cutting that will wilt after just 15-20 minutes out from under the dome.

Our trees crave direct sunlight, but you have to introduce it s l o w l y.. 

There was a post a few days ago about putting seven dust on the leaves to help with the sun on new plants. This may help. I have this problem all the time. New leaves will form and will be stronger to the sun and wind.

Zone 8
South West TX

I just keep them outdoor since sunburn, all leaves fall off, then new ones sprout.

yupe, sun burnt leaves will drop sooner or later and new ones will replace them. and new ones will be much stronger against the sun burn.

Last week, the weather was in the 70s, so what does Frank do?  He puts his tender, grown-in-the-warm-kitchen treelets outside, and, now has a beautiful, collection of small trees with sunburned, scorched leaves.  I am a moron....and should've known better.  But, I couldn't get my fat behind in gear, to do the "fig shuffle", and took the easy way out of doing all the work.  Result: burned leaves, bad temper, and, greatly expanded my repetoire of curse-words.

Lesson learned the hard way.


Frank

Fig plants as a general rule brought from inside to outdoor need to be put in protected area from sun and wind and when temps are already around 50.

Each season we read about this happening .

Yes they will be fine just set back some there resilient.

Jimmy, I think if we would admit it, many of us have done almost exactly what you did.  Good thing fig trees are forgiving of our mistakes a lot of the time and quickly re-leaf. Sometimes bad weather comes quickly or temperatures fluctuate as fast.The past few days in east TN there has been flooding and a few of my potted trees sat in 2-3" of water for a couple of hours before it drained off, good thing it wasn't salt water.  Last night it hailed, thank goodness BB to slightly larger pellets fell and not much damage. The newly 1 gal potted trees that were in the high humidity Sterlite containers were moved out to the covered porch Sat since rain was forecast for 4 days, the humidity should gradually lessen and toughen them naturally, I hope.  A lot of my tree leaves are disfigured by weather related problems but FMV has shown up this year on my CHikishlyarski in such as way that the leaves looked liked a contorted croton bush.

I slowly introduced mine to sun from HID light, 2-3 days at 1 hour exporsure to sun at lunch, 2-3 for 2-3 hours, 2-3 days at 4-5 hours, 2-3 days at 6 hours then just outside.  I got a bit of brown-black sun burn, but it only happened on the oldest leaves and they haven't all fallen off yet.  out of 30 or so trees, only 2 buds got dehydrated but will still grow, just set back a week or two.

When it gets windy soft leaves get more damage because they are not used to it, but like others said they will come back.

I think we're all a little anxious to get our plants outside as early as possible, especially in areas with short growing seasons(here in New Jersey, by the middle of October my little orchard starts shutting down)...I made the same mistake that 'jimmy' did, and on the same sunny Saturday towards the end of March....I put out about 24 of my little trees on the deck to get some "real" sun...results 24 sun burned plants on which all the leaves eventually fell off(but are now growing back)...two trees eventually died, but the rest are making a comeback.