Mostly because by then I’m ready for a break from growing season and I don’t feel like taking my cuttings yet and storing them in the fridge all winter. I may upgrade to a 20 gal next year. If I do I won’t root prune at all this year, but I may hack the top this fall to move it around easier.
I keep the figs in the garage until it starts dipping into the upper 20s in there. Then they go into the basement. By then it’s getting into the 40s down there. It bottoms out at 40-45F in Feb/Mar.
I have done research on those 3, and to me ‘Bari’ seems like the only one worth trying. That’s just an opinion based upon info that I found online.
Yes and yes. Off the beaten path nursery has a great selection of these and many other varieties that would do well, and also it often has great info for how they perform outdoors in a marginal fig climate
Here’s a few more than are good for this purpose besides the ones already mentioned. They all are slightly better at different things (split resistance, early ripening, better flavor than average, etc) but there’s a wide range of flavor categories
If you’re growing in pots it’s a completely different list of figs that taste much better but if you’re growing outdoors with minimal protection you take what you can get
Niagara black, Sodus Sicilian, Verdolino, Kesariani, Lattarula,.Makedonia dark, Colasanti dark, Malta black