Chad, along with the names of the ones I emailed to you I forgot to mention, Nero 600M. I'm still testing it here. But, I have heard back from collectors, who say it has been an outstanding breba producer. One of those collectors over winters his in his garage, in a zone 5 location. That sounds impressive to me, that the breba does not freeze at that low. Plus, I'm hearing from some collectors who think it might be in the top 12 of great testing figs. Bob Harper

I absolutelly agree with Elder posting,and the comparisson,between California and Conecticut. I also wants to add that most cultivars are not hardy in the north east,no matter if young or old. We here on the east coast have a continuous need to reaserch for cold hardy figs,and need to just grow as many cultivars as possible,even if there will be a lots of them that will dissapoint us at the end. Once a cultivar is found to be positivelly hardy,then it should be made known on Garden Forum,so it will be spreaded out in the future. If one also let the Forum know about dissapointing cultivars,that is also necesarry,to know. I also found a third category,of fig tree valuable in the north east. I found a handfull of trees,that are not cold hardy,but they positivelly get ripe in our climate and can be grown in containers,with great success. This is ,because most fig trees will not get ripe in the north east region,as they need more heat units,than our northern,climate can offer. So this last group is important to be known too,because most best tasting figs are in this last category. Hope this will help. H

Hi fignewbies, I don't really have any info like that, unfortunately. It can really vary with climate and plant health.

I'm looking for information and sources for figs that can survive winters in zone 6b. They will be planted in an unheated greenhouse once they are old enough to plant in the ground. It normally doesn't get colder than 5 degrees and that only happens once or twice a year. Also is it good to root prune figs planted in the ground by cutting in a circle slightly larger than the mature tree once a year?