Fruits and Nuts: Finally...Figs!, 1 by flyboyFL

flyboyFL wrote:
RitchH~

Talk to me. I am a Floridian who spends each summer in the Princeton area. This year, in May, I carried two "Celeste" fig plants (about 4 feet high -- in pots) back North. I planted them in the ground, on the south side of my house. They were fully leafed and had fruit setting. This is how they looked before I carried them North.

Now they are still healthy, if you check the cambium layer and the green tips, but the figs -- and then the leaves -- dropped off.

The grower from whom I purchased them, last January, thought that the plants may have thought that winter was coming when I brought them North. Weird!

Now I will soon be leaving them and I am wondering whether I should protect them, somehow, from the winter blasts. I won't return until mid-May, so I can't leave them too wrapped up.

My Florida figs grow well.

Help !