No, just leave it outside. It will be plenty cold enough for it to enter dormancy. Your average winter lows are 30-35F but anything below 45F will provide adequate chill for dormancy to occur.

Karmahappy: Me too, I just had this vision of "trees" - the canopies that you see are so beautiful. and to be able to stand "under" all that beauty (ok, don't think about the bugs. . .) Do you have some that are 8" in diameter? Now, THAT'S a BRUG! Boy I'd like to get one to be that big. Question Karma - if you put them in the ground (I know you said your water table is too high) - but if you do, how do you tell WHERE to dig it up at? Wouldn't that be like a root prune which hurts them? I ask because, everyone says "put them in the ground, you'll be amazed" - so, I'm thinking I will, but, is there a measurement for each foot of height, 6" of diameter on the roots or something? Was considering this - but it almost sounds like "Purgatory" - dig, pot. Now unpot, dig, dig, and pot. . . .I'd do this with a COUPLE, just not all. I know - "it's not rocket science!" - but if I can do it right, I'd like some real beauties.

quinoah:Believe me:I am Selecting figs since when i bought this house in 1993,before the computer time,Yet the oldest fig that is growing in my Bavckyard now is a 6 years old Hardy Chicago. So he is the surviver that I did not discard to date. I can call it the all time favorite. However I do have other very young cultivars that seem to be better in flavor,but they are to young to declare that they do not have any fault. You see here in New Jersey,other factors,such as Resistance: to rain and souring,to frost,Short season to ripe fruits,total need of Sommer Heat,Deasese resistance,are just as important as productivity. So it takes many years to evaluate these young cultivars that i am growing now. But I can say for sure:The future looks brighter,than the present, with the new aquired figs,in Specially a couple of figs i got from DR Leon Deprest,in New Mexico,Gene In Washington DC,and George Michalev in North Jersey. Best Regards

I root them in water with bottom heat. I get the best results with stems that are a bit older, not woody but not super soft new growth either. A little more than half my cuttings usually root. Karyn