Can someone tell me if this is a good time to uncover my in ground fig trees in Zone 6B or should I wait awhile?  Can't wait to see how they survived this past winter but don"t want to jump the gun.

Joe

Id say we are close to the end of the cold n snow. Daytime temps are now all on the increase, with longer days, shorter nights, etc. I would say you are good to unwrap your trees and let them enjoy the warm days, cool nights. It will take some time for them to pop, so let them free. Good luck.

As long as the forecast is predicting temps that stay above 27-28 or so you should be fine to unwrap them. 

Anyone wrap trees in warmer climates?

I ask because, even in zone 8, I get die back on some of my trees.  A few of the younger ones have died to the ground.   We get winter days in the upper 60's and even into the 70's, often followed by a hard freeze and several days with lows in the 20's and 30's.  Some trees don't go fully dormant and are then hurt when we do get a freeze.

Any thoughts on wrapping in zone 8?

6B New Jersey, I would not do it yet, Joe. Unless of course you are willing to cover back at nights that will be cold. I would wait a few more weeks.  I am urging tounwrap mine, but I have not as I rather be patient than to loose my in-ground figs. Last year I lost 15 trees because I unwrapped them earlier than I should have. Very regrettable. I definitely learned my lesson.

I will be unwrapping in the next few weeks when I feel it is reasonable to do so. And I will definitely still be watching for the weather, so I can wrap in case we get a couple cold nights. I figure that conservative approach will still pay off.

What I did is that I kept many of my trees in planters, so that I can just move them in and out of my shed and garage.

Good luck!

No way! I'm new to the fig addiction but i always had a couple of fig trees when i was young and i use to burry them. (that is a many years of experience  I'm 70 yeas old) it will only set them back, and probably loose some of the new growth, patience, you will do better by waiting

Best to wait for your last frost date in my area this May 24th.
Unless as Jerry mentioned you are willing to build a temporary greenhouse around them.
This would give them an early start and you would be ready for those unpredictable cold spells that are sure to come when you least expect it.

Ive already uncovered my fig and other sensitive plants. I was way too anxious, since then ive been wrapping mine with a few rags and a bucket on top on colder nights. Do we need to pay attention especially once they start to leaf out? Or are they ok a little below freezing once they do leaf out?

In my opinion, it's the potted trees that have really leafed out that you have to worry about the most. A few more cold nights here won't harm a tree that hasnt leafed out. But, given that we are only a few days or a week at most away from overnight freezing temps, might as well wait. Here in the greater DC area, calling for 26F tonight, but remainder is all on the up-n-up. Remainder of the week highs to be high 60s. Low 20's out right now this early Sunday morning, so nothing growing outside, and my outdoor figs are on hold.

I'm still learning but I have heard that waiting too long before unwrapping can have its problems as well - like moisture building up inside along the trunk of the tree and having the tree warm up too much inside the wrapping.  Of course not using dark colored wrapping would help.  Here in zone 7a I unwrapped mine two weeks ago and they are all totally dormant still.  The tips on pretty much all my trees died back in January/February when they were wrapped so what is left is the thicker trunks which should be less sensitive to the cold, espeicially when dormant.  I agree that the biggest issue arises when they start to come out of dormancy and then get zapped with 25 degrees or less.

Edit: this is a great story about an old Paradiso in Pittsburgh and the Italian man who owns it.  He used to wrap but had a problem with rot one year and now does not wrap it at all.  It would be interesting to know how it did the last two winters.  Anyway, my only point is that depending on how one wraps their tree, and how long one waits to unwrap, it appears that the wrap itself can potentially damage the tree.

http://figs4fun.com/links/figlink178.pdf

Ok. thanks for the advise and it seems that there are different points of view in this matter and they all have their good points.  With the prediction of somewhat decent weather forcast for the coming week I decided to uncover only one of my inground trees and see what happens. (Its a crap shoot and I love to gamble) 

I unwrapped mine this afternoon...they look good.If they survived this winter (specially February) they'll survive anything, now that I believe found a fast and easy way to wrap them.

One good way is to follow your 'local' nature-of-events.
When your street trees first start to swell/bloom ; it is time to let them dog figs out.

Hi Dave, I wrapped my two HC's with an insulating blanket that we use at the construction site.I cut it in half, wrapped and tied them with some string and at the base I put some bags of soil and some flower pots.I used nothing else...I planted another 3 year old HC in the south side of the house and didn't protect it at all, except for all the snow that I piled on top of it.This one seems to have survived with only a bit of damage to the tip that kept sticking out of the snow.

Gotcha.     Should I decide to do this, I would be wrapping and unwrapping each tree multiple times every winter.   Thanks for the tip.