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My in-ground figs buds have been swelling for the past few weeks, but now they are starting to split open.

Anyone else noticing fig grow season beginning?

My potted figs are starting to wake up in the garage ...they are about 2 weeks ahead of where they where last year

My in ground trees are still asleep.

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Everything in pot is waking up over here, but in ground I'm only seeing some small green shoots.
We're supposed to have temperatures in the 80's next weekend.
This is how some of my pots looked like today.





My trees have been waking up since the beginning of this month. LSU Purple has had full leaves out for about 2 weeks. RDB has been one of the slower ones to open its buds, but all three are going now. St. Rita has been about on par with RDB. JH Adriatic and LSU Gold have already put on a couple inches and figlets along with Marseilles Black VS! My Celeste from Saxon and Becnal still hasn't put leaves out yet, but it's right on the border of busting open. 

My Celeste and Brown Turkey are very young - only 2 years old.  Last year even when they were one year old (grown from cuttings) - they already leafed out by now (we had mild winter).  This year still dormant.  No green buds yet!  This winter - we had some severe winter days - brief but very cold - almost to teens.  I suspect some limbs may not come back.  I haven't prune because I am not sure whether those are dead or alive.

I found couple large fig trees in the neighborhood  growing leaves.  I believe one of them is Texas Ever-bearing.  I believe the larger/older the tree - changes are it will wake up early.  Also, the location of the tree matters - south facing near a wall will help warm up the soil faster and this type of micro climate help break dormancy earlier.

 

Many San Diego trees are wide awake. Nothing does it like 10 inches of rain followed by warm weather.

All my trees are fully leafed out. Some of the potted figs already have 3 - 4 inches of new growth, and up to a couple inches of new shots on some in-ground trees.


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