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Oxankle

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I brought my figs into the open about ten days ago; I looked at the seven day forecast, saw that no freezes were expected for a week and set out the figs.  We have about a week before I consider it one hundred percent safe. 

At any rate, they are in the sun and leafing out.  I put one of my Marseilles VS in the ground in a bed that also holds an REP and a Celeste.  Of all these trees, those wintered in my garage, two Tennessee Mountain figs (from Elder) are the earliest to leaf out.  They have put on leaves at twice the rate the other trees are showing. 

It appears that I have lost a Paradiso (Gene's strain) and that a Black#1 from UCD and a Chicago Hardy have frozen back to the roots outside.  Unfortunately I sent cuttings from the UCD Black #1 to several friends and fear that they cuttings may have been frozen before I sent them.
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I have 6 different varieties of figs in containers. All of them have broken dormancy. They broke dormancy in this order:

#1 Celeste
#2 LSU Gold
#3 An unknown I call Jersey
#4 Marseilles VS
#5 Desert King
#6 Black Mission

My in ground Hardy Chicago broke dormancy last of all.

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All of mine are in containers:
1-verte
2-excel
3-king
4-Ghosh
5-Kadota
and on and on...

One thing I noticed is that even though we had a very mild winter for 6a, the plants broke dormancy at almost the same day as last year which was a brutal winter.
Although, this year, they just seem "peppier" than last.

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