Hi,
Can you share which will fruit in ground in upstate NY, zone 6b?
Iām in 6b too. It used to be 5b. Pomegranates are mentioned in my previous post that worked well for me.
Granada sets a lot and so does Hyrdanar X Goulosha as it is a dwarf plant.
For figs I can list. But Iām still experimenting with a lot of others. It takes years to evaluate properly.
Did you grow Grenada pom in ground?
No Just in pots and protect in the winter. I plan to take cuttings and experiment within ground. I do have two in ground figs. One is on a trial basis. I want to do a low cordon with it.
I have 4 trees inground. 4 year old Chicago Hardy 3 year old Letizia, 3 year old Florea, and a 1 year old Ronde De Bordeaux. RDB died to the ground but the other three did well. I bent the branches down and tied them up. They were covered with moving blankets and a tarp.
Chicago Hardy
Letizia
Florea
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Looks good! Iām playing around with a low cordon. I like to grow in containers. You get a head start. I have a few figs with six inches of growth right now. A lot more with three inches. Anyway I thought this one fig wouldnāt hold fruit, needed the wasp. So I just stuck it in the ground. I covered it with leaves when I had some leftover. Then I found out it always drops the first few years and is actually common.
Long story short it made it through the winter in ground. So making a cordon and keeping it.
Itās a rimada of all things. Oro Rosato is the variety.
As an experiment, I stuck two Chicago Hardy scion in the ground along the south side of my house in southern Michigan zone 5/6. This is year 3. I weigh down a cordon or two with a rock over winter but do not insulate with anything. I have pruned them back 3 or 4 times this summer to keep them out of the windows and path:
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First year they died back to the ground. Years 2 and 3 the low lying cordons had about 75% survival. Nothing growing vertical survived the winter.
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Anyone know how well figs do with a lot of shade?
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They donāt do well in shade.
Best if planted in the hottest sunniest place one has . ( here in Wv. )
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@FascistNation gave a great fig list shown above. He was a true fig expert. May you rest in peace and thank you for your contributions Powell Gammill.
"A list I had which shamefully does not list the source, but I am fairly certain much of it was from Figs4Fun forum:
Cold Hardy Figs
Brown Turkey (Texas Everbearing) DWN
Blue Celeste (all Celeste really) DWN
Brunswick
Hardy Chicago DWN to zone 4
Violet De Bordeaux (Negronne)
medium eye, down to zone 5 DWN
Desert King DWN to zone 5
Italian Honey (Lattarula)
Peter's Honey DWN to zone 6
Osborne Prolific (Neverella) DWN
Excel DWN
Texas Blue Giant DWN to zone 6
Golden Celeste
Black Mission DWN
[there are others but they require either hot summers or a summer greenhouse to sweeten]
Alma - late ripening, honey fig, ugly fig, super flavor [female Allison X male Hamma Caprifig]
Atreano
Bayenfeige Violetta
Biancheta
Brogiotto Nero (Briogiotto Fiorentino)
Capelas
Dauphine
Genovese Nero
Hollier
Isfahan
LSU Purple
Mademoiselle de deux Saisons
Malta (Sugar Fig)
Northland (Nordland Bergfeige)
Paradiso Bianco
Portuguese East Mountain
Ronde de Bordeaux
Sal's (Corleone)
Skardu Dark
Stela (honey fig) (aka Stella)
Sultane
Tena (Bifere)
Ventura
http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Cold_hardy_figs/
DWN = Dave Wilson Nursery availability"
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Tena grows like a weed in 7A central PA but will never rippen. It was bred for CA i beleive.
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Alright - after reading through this mountain of material Iām going to attempt to grow 2 Chicago hardy figs in the following way (please share concerns or advise as you see fit):
Putting them both against an insulated garage, SW facing, burying their roots several inches below the ground level, putting down a layer of rocks followed by thick wood chip mulch, saying a prayer and walking away.
I am in Zone 6b-7a in VA and Iām thinking, maybe I will simply prune them to ~5 feet every year right before I cover them in the winter so they are always a manageable height and not to difficult to wrap? Then Iāll look at different ways to wrap them and keep them insulated and dry in winterā¦still havenāt settled on a method for that yet. I have them arriving this fall from Century Farms so I will likely keep them in pots this winter and plant after frost in Spring.
Thatās basically what Iām doing in NJ. Planted near the house, early in the winter I cut them back, make a circle of rocks or bricks and set some pots full of dirt near the trunk for thermal mass, and throw some weeds on top for insulation. I donāt wrap.
Iām not winning any prizes for style and Iām not getting any brebas, but I ate fig today.
I wouldnāt plant two the same though. Itās your chance to play.
I leave a few feet.
In a nasty year they will die almost to the ground, but in a mild winter without a late freeze they hardly die back at all, so I give them a chance at a head start.
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