Re: [nafex] Lee Reich's comment

I've done the same thing with a Kadota fig as Alan does with his figs, except my fig is planted in a large, plastic pot with holes in its side. In late November, I dig up the pot, severing a roots that have grown out into the surrounding ground, and put the plant in my unheated basement. I preserve a couple of feet of top growth on the plant. Problem is that Kadota is very late ripening — worth it because it's also very delicious.

How is the quality of LSU Purple?

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> On Jan 4, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "In my experience, figs that die to ground level set fruit much too late to
> ripen". Which is also my experience with figs out in the open north of NY
> City, but as I understand it, in the Bronx and points further south by the
> coast, many varieties can ripen fruit after plants have frozen to the
> ground the previous winter, If you had them under plastic it figures to
> lengthen the season by a zone or 2.
>
> LSU purple, as I recall, was intentionally selected to be capable of this
> throughout the south. If you were growing them in something colder than Z5
> some heat source might be necessary but from Z5 up my hunch is that early
> ripening varieties would yield good fruit.
>
> My fig trees are in Whitcomb bags and I pop them out with a spade every
> year in late Nov. and store them in my unheated well house. They are among
> my most pest free, reliable cropping fruit. Last season only they and my
> blueberries actually did great.
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