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  • From: "Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Potted Culture - Winter storage?
  • Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:58:55 -0500

My Figs are in an unattached Brick Veneer Garage. Tis is only my second year, but they worked very well in there. This year I had 2 that were about 6 foot and I had just thrown a large tarp over them. They still look green although we had a winter of a lot of below 0 degrees days. Last year I did not have to move them in and out.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.

From: "Kristina & Bruce"
Reply-To: herenorthere@lycos.com,North American Fruit Explorers
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Potted Culture - Winter storage?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:10:46 -0500

Tom Olenia asked - Although the unheated garage offers a good place for winter storage, as the weather warms, the plants in there never fail to start spring growth too early. They end up having leaves, long before it is safe to have leaves outstide.
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I know some people start moving the plants outside and back inside, but is there a better solution? Will the thawing and refreezing at this point in the season be too extreme, or is a shaded northern exposure fine?
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I think keeping plants dark is critical to avoiding premature leafulation. That way they have no idea winter has left. I keep figs in a detached garage that has only one small north window. And I wrap those figs in burlap, which further darkens their world.

Many people's potted figs leaf out too soon in garages, but my figs are always deeply dormant when I bring them out. In fact, maybe too dormant. From numerous discussions, the major difference I see is my trees are kept in the dark. But I haven't tried this with fruit other than figs.

Bruce Wittchen
1/2 mile outside Hartford, CT


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