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I'm in love with LSU Purple, it's one of my favorite tasting figs and
is a great one for selling at farmer's market.  I'll be putting a few
of those in my fighouse.

~mIEKAL

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:46 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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