how did you guys fare during this winter?  everything i had, without exception, died to the ground.  the good news is all 50 some of my figs (except one) are sprouting up from the roots.  so i'm relieved. 

on the plus side, i've got about 60 rooted cuttings, including 10 sal's corleone :).

That is weird that yours died to the ground. I only had a couple in ground, but none of mine showed any damage. Even a 10" tall kathleen's black did fine. Which one did you lose? I was actually thinking that because it was so cold for so long mine actually went more fully dormant than they normally would so they were better protected.

Hi Mike, good to see you posting again. Sorry to hear about your figs, but at least they are coming back. Our winter was colder than normal here. We had several nights in a row below 20F which is very unusual for us here. I had some tip damage on quite a few varieties which was new for me. Had never seen that before as I only had experience with Celeste in the past ,which of course had no damage this year either. I did clip the dead tips off earlier, but now that they are leafing out,I see there are some that still need to be done. My Violette de Bordeaux is the last to start leafing out---very slowly.

first, i been working 72-94 hours a week for the season in nursing.  so i've been working in tampa bay and hoping they made it through.  on the plus side, i been making mad money :).

no wood at all lived above the mulch line. i mean nothing, not even my dessert kings.   i can't remember the one that died but it was really weak going into the winter.  it was either the black marsailles or the black mission.  i also had a few die after planting last year but that's just the way it goes. 

it got my cold weather citrus, all three of those died.  but all in all, the rest of everything else seems to be coming back.  olives, pomegranates, guavas, bananas (i'm very excited that my cold weather bananas didn't die to the ground, the orginal stalks actually made it through this miserable winter. so i should get bananas this year).

there are microclimates in the area.  i'm apparently in a cold one.  it did kill one of my wild cabbage palms too, and those are probably 25 years old.

i mulched everything pretty heavily with pine bark, and that's what i attribute the good survival to.

the year before, my only fig was a brown turkey (though i am wondering if that is really a brown turkey) and it died to the ground but came back like a champ.  so i am going to expect this every year. 

i do have drip irrigation (which really helps) and i'm fertilizing tommorrow.  i expect a wonderful year in fig growth, since this is their second year and they are already coming on like gangbusters :).

I can't believe the Ga and Fl people lamenting their tough winters.  Sounds like my parents and brother in Kissimmee complaining about the cold weather.

Mike, I've got 3 Poncirus in my front yard (what your cold-hardy citrus were likely grafted onto) here in Michigan and they've done great the past 3 years (two of them kept their leaves this winter and look happy as clams).  Chances are you might have lost the grafts, but the root-stock might be just fine for re-grafting.  If you're looking to trade for a chicago hardy (which should have no problem in your chilly :) climate, just let someone know.  I'm sure one or more of us northerners could work something out...

~Chills  (who, btw had a fairly mild winter with temps staying in the zone 7 range for another year and it appears the Asian Persimmon survived with all wood intact...and it is fussier than the fig I have in the ground)

I am in NY and I didn't lose any in ground trees.  Other than a lot of snow it wasn't a bad winter for figs, at least not here.  Heck I dont even cover mine.  What I am worried about is the unbelievable amount of rain recently.  I hope the figs don't drown!  I guess its a blessing that in my climate my trees go dormant and are protected from the cold unlike yours which aren't afforded the same protection. 

Gainesville....home of the best SEC football team ever, the only place I ever lived where you could break a sweat walking from the front door to the car in the morning hours, and now a notorious death ground for figs? Not even my brown turkey on the full-shade north side of my house had die back after a foot of snow. That is pretty wild!

What part of gville are you in? I graduated from the massage school by the prairie and took some programming classes at UF a little over a decade ago. Used to work off Williston Rd half a mile east of 75 till they transferred me up here. I miss my falafel hummus sandwiches from Gyro Plus!