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Buster

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I brought in my Kadota fig into my bird room at the end of December.
Look at the growth already!
It had 3 months of cold and darkness.

This year the figs may get a chance to ripen?
Last year I brought it in at the end of February 
and by the end of September the figs were not ripe.

Jerry
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The more seasons your plant gets the better the chance for earlier ripe crop when properly pruned your looks to be very young at this point.
Good luck with it. ; )
Buster

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It is young, no more than 4 years old.
I cut it back hard, to get good strong roots and trunk.
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Jerry
Is the red material on the ends of you fig some kind of sealent? 
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Buster

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Yes it's red candle wax.
I put some on to protect the cuts.
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Usually we bring our potted fig outside from the garage in late early April after our last hard freeze but it takes well into October to get ripened fruit.

Buster, I am going to try that and bring my potted figs inside the house from the garage earlier this year to try give them a head start and see if I can extend my season a bit too. 
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Vince, if I were to bring mine out in April?
I would never get any fruit or any fruit worth noting!
Here in Calgary our sprIng is terrible!
We can get hails d snow!
So that is why I am trying to get some good fruit this year!

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Perhaps you would benefit from doing the fig shuffle.
But i'm no expert.

If you have garage and can time it when you have good idea when you trees normally would be out and wake them up a little before that time then you can gain a few weeks instead of just bringing them out to wake up.

Thats if you have garage to bring them out during decent weather and back in at night when its to cold for them.
This is what i do to gain some weeks and it makes a difference when it comes time for them to ripen as season can close quickly here.

There have been years when they started to awake and it snow out and or weather turns cold but i can keep in attached garage which is warmer than the outside temp long as i keep overhead door close.

Ignore post if you have no garage.
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Hello. brand new to forum.

With regards to the candlewax, I picked up a tip you might try: white glue or wood glue. It's convenient, handy, stores well, seals well, and not visually distractive, but sufficiently persistent to do the job.

Dale M. Musilli
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Jerry,

I was in Calgary couple weeks ago and it was -30F. Don't know how you do it.
One thing I noticed that it is dry there and you can actually drive on the snow.

Much different than most parts of the states.
Outside of Montana and it's a whole different ball game with the snow.

Maybe we can meet one day when I visit again.
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Welcome to the forum Dale.

I like to use ashes from wood, coal or even ciggs. Wood ashes work the best.
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Ashes (a potash source) from (clean) wood is good.

 

Ashes from coal, I am not familiar with - it may contain some chemicals (e.g., sulfur?).

 

Ashes form ciggs is a no, no.

While attending a Master Gardener class lecture about vegetative propagation,

and to my surprise, the lecturer advised smokers to wash their hands with soap

before starting to avoid spreading some 'tobacco virus'

(probably it is similar to FMD?).
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George,

I haven't noticed any issues using either method.
But,,,, to be on the safe side I guess we should stick to the wood ashes.
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Tobacco plants have mosaic virus similar to fig plants yes.
Also a lot of veggies have it as well.

Moi and the Misses no longer worry about tobacco nor of the cig ashes we been cig free thanks to "vaping" which delivers my nic to my brain receptors since May of 2011.
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