One of my figs woke up yesterday. My LSU Purple has been making green buds for a few weeks so I've been watching it. Now they have become leaf buds and are opening! I suppose that means my cold storage area isn't cold enough but that can't be helped. So I'll be moving them to my grow room bit by bit and cross my fingers I don't need to buy a new light anytime soon ;) pictures can come later if interested. Thanks,
Devin

Kind of bittersweet, right?  ;)
I hope they stay strong until spring.  I feel like mine will be waking up soon too.  My garage hoovers around 50° all winter.

All of my grounded figs have buds that are turning into leaves. Hope a freeze doesn't kill new growth.

Supposedly row cover material boosts temps by 3-4°F so that's an option if they aren't too large.

My Godfather tree has one eye open

All my trees, except for a single Raspberry Latte that suffered some cold damage, have started leafing out already. This goes for my in-ground and container trees alike. Watching the weather forecast closely......

Beware of the "False" Spring.   75f yesterday 35f tomorrow night which means light freeze in my yard.

Just reached my daily high of 22°F here. Snow banks 5 feet tall on 3 sides of driveway. My false springs don't happen until April or so and I'll likely wait until 2nd or 3rd week of may before putting them outside. Can young leaves survive if night temps don't fall below 38 as was mentioned in the other thread running like this?

Here in south Florida we also have 4 seasons....warm summer, hot summer, cool summer and cooler summer.

Yes that is why i  was going to invest in some shade cloth, with my busy work schedule it would be much easier to manage.  If i get any brebas i will be surprised.  Last year i put my figs out too early, and the cold nights and windy weather (new location this year less windy) killed 6 two year old trees.  I was not impressed, they lost leaves gradually and never sprung back.  I really dont want to keep care of them actively growing for 2-3 months indoors, but i see a few others starting to wake up so I think that there is no help for it.

Off Topic of figs, but on topic for early spring. Our little peach tree (that was mauled by a buck in rut late last year) flowered in about the third week of January. Checking my trees this week, I saw that it has a couple of dozen small nickle-sized preaches already.


CliffH

Are you expecting cold snap any time this spring still? I haven't read much on peaches but I assume you thin them like pomes, 4" between each when they are 1" diameter.

Not year round, and they seem to go dormant with leaves still clinging to life but no stem growth, brebas are forming. I do have quarter size peaches on my trees and picked about a dozen plums in January. Everything blooms and then stops, then again and stops, crazy weather. Mangos, lychees, avocados, bananas, papayas, peaches, plums, all blooming and/or setting fruit.