Many of you have written about the wacky weather this year.  (Frost in June, cold wet spring except a week of 90F in April, figs here in central NY state are a month or more behind previous years in making main crop starts).  So this afternoon I looked out my office window and saw the oak trees blowing like mad.  Then I heard a weather advisory for winds up to 60mph.  By the time I got downstairs, about half of the trees in 7 and 10 gallon pots had blown over.  I just got back inside from moving 65 trees up against the garage wall in a somewhat protected spot.  

Hopefully damage is minimal, and I'm hoping that not too many of the baby main crop figs didn't get knocked off!  Because the good news is that as of this morning there were hundreds of main crop fruit on about a quarter of those trees.  20 trees alone are responsible for at least 300 baby figs so far... too soon to tell how many of them will make it to maturity and ripe harvestable fruit, but despite a late start, at least it is looking like the quantity is good.  Here's hoping they make it!  

And here's hoping these wind storms in the northeast aren't affecting the rest of you guys.

Mike   central NYS, zone 5a -- plenty windy today!

yeah.. weather is really whacked this yr. it's non-stop rain this yr. they are predicting rain this and next week. i'm hoping it will dry out by end of july.. or my fig crop is done for. 

Yep wind/ late start to season but we somehow manage to get the ripe figs regardless.
Have to say my worst fear is when it hails darn that hurts the top of hairless coconut when out scrambling to move the smaller ones under the house eve.

I hear you Martin.  The hair on top of my head has turned clear too.  (It's not that there's no hair there... it's just turned clear so it looks invisible).  (I do find that the clear kind is less protection than the darker hair when it comes to hail though).  When the hail can dent the cars, it can hurt the fig trees too.  But I was surprised at the sudden burst of wind today... lots of the trees are only about 30 inches high and in 10 gallon pots filled with promix (and just watered yesterday, so plenty heavy).  But the wind knocked 'em right over as if they were empty coke cans sitting on a fence post.

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Atlanta is NOT New Orleans, Mama Nature!

Mike just about an hour ago a very fast moving storm came thru and knocked over my madeira as its sits on corner of patio and wound up on the grass.
Never thought that heavy container which i made mix of just bagged humus, bagged compost and a little peat with perlite.
I was shocked that it went over along with some 15g pots.

NdC took the worse beating in its 25g pot as its limbs are bent leaves curled from wind damage probably have to stake it tomorrow .

Life goes on its very very minor thing in the scheme of things.

What a coincidence. Last year around this time, the temp was over 106, everyday. This year we're getting days in the 70's and 80's. The nights in the 50-60's! I was riding my motorcycle around dusk and freezing my butt off!

Long range model forecasts are predicting the mama of all heat waves out west almost ten days out.  South Central California getting 120 degrees plus hot.  Sacramento being 115 to 120 degrees.  This is lalaland (as in long past reliable time range for forecasts), but...peeps away from the shores might want to think about how they will deal with a nasty heat wave now.

My fig trees took a major beating this afternoon. I'm going to have to stake a whole lot of trees. Many of them are doubled over. I had a 30 gallon pot tip over along with many smaller pots. My wife did what she could while I was at work. I have well over 200 potted figs. Makes me sick when all you can do is watch them falling over.

Wow, you've built that collection in a hurry Art!  I know what you mean, can't keep up with moving them out of the wind.  And I'm sorry to hear your trees took on damage too.  But 30 gallon pots tipping... wow.  Mine are mostly 7's and 10's still (and 3 were 15's), the bigger ones approximately "square"  (well, they're close to cylindrical, so round in one cross section, but to friendly pistonheads I'd say square because the bore and stroke of the cylinder is about equal, a couple of them oversquare a bit, meaning bigger diameter than height).  OK OK, I'm just saying they've got low centers of gravity and nice wide bases.  But they blew right over anyway.  I checked them out today.  Will have to stake a few of them, but won't lose any.  Lost quite a few leaves though, and some of the fruit.

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Martin - I agree, life goes on, broken trees are minor.  They're trees, not kids or dogs or such.  But sounds like the windy storms have been pretty widespread this year.  Maybe you're used to that out in windy city territory.  And I know we've got plenty of folks on here from tornado alley too, so I'll stop complaining about the wind.  Just caught me off guard how it went so suddenly from calm to a gale, then back to calm.  Good luck staking your trees.