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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

It's important to kill a few figs in one's lifetime to at least give
it a try.  I've even planted Hardy Chicago in the ground up here in
Wisconsin with a giant cage of mulch around it in the winter.
Fool-hardy, but I had to find out for myself. On Figs4Fun there's a
lot of posts about zone 6 techniques, & some pictures of some very
large trunked fig trees who've managed to keep their trunks & roots,
tho the tops get period freezebacks.

~mIEKAL


On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Louis Pittman
<lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:
> No.
> Invariably, even with the 'most cold-hardy' fig variety you may be able to
> grow, even that is going to freeze to the ground on a fairly regular basis
> unless you're going to some fairly significant efforts to protect - like a
> 'fig house', etc.
> And, even if your cold-hardy framework can withstand the zone 6 winter, the
> more tender varieties you might have grafted on will likely be frozen off
> almost on a yearly basis - again, unless you're going to some length to
> provide protection.
>
> At least with figs 'on their own roots', if they get frozen back to ground
> level, they can re-grow from the roots.
>
> Lucky
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Group:
>>
>>
>> Anyone do a multi-graft fig shrub-tree?
>>
>>
>> I think that grafting onto a comparatively cold-hardy fig variety (base;
>> rootstock; frame) might be a good solution for Zone 6.  Sounds like an ok
>> idea?
>>
>>
>> Steve; NJ 6b/7a