gorgi
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Posted 1321654654
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I recently acquired my little Miller EBT (BC#101) fig specimen plant from :
This is now November 18th, 2011, and something is strange.
All my other figs are either with zero-leaves or with some yellow/brown ones still barely-hanging-on (going nighty, nighty - aka., dormant).
We had a brief severe snow storm a couple of weeks ago and a few frosty nights later on.
Looking at my figs, it did stood out with green leaves as if it was still summer.
Heck, it even has a baby 1" healthy green leaf at the tip!
Even my [extreme hardy] Japanese Maple on my deck where it was located, suddenly dropped all its leaves...
Now I just put it in my GH today.
Is this an indication of its hardiness?
Is this good or bad?
ejp3
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Posted 1321655711
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I thought that the most cold hardy figs shed their leaves the soonest but I wonder if the guy you got it from uses a slow release fertilizer (osmocote etc) that may have this impact? I say this because his varieties (the ones I buy that particular year) always seem to have leaves remaining the latest. Examples, last year malta black, this year dergrossen and a few others I can't recall right now.
gorgi
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Posted 1321658413
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The 3 other (bigger) different fig specimens I got from Pete; and werealso located within 2-4 feet to BC101, are currently with zero leaves....
go4broek
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Posted 1321677702
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It's probably not a good sign since the vegetative growth will be killed by the next hard/prolonged freeze you get. Chances are it was fertilized late into the season and watered at the same frequency as earlier in the season instead of tapered down so it is actively growing instead of preparing to go dormant. Ed's observation is like my own for the local trees that have grown into large, single trunk trees. They usually go to sleep earlier and emerge with little or no damage. Good luck!
http://davesgarden.com/community/journals/vbc/go4broek/83546/
gorgi
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Posted 1321732362
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No problem, it went in my little greenhouse and will spend all winter growing bigger there.
This is how it was described by Belleclare:
#101 Miller's English Brown Turkey-Dark purple/brown, red center.
gorgi
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Posted 1328776241
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Update...
Since my last post, my (GH wintered) EBT put up an ~1 foot of new growth!
