The toxic plant list helps me pick plants for outside, cuz the bunnies cant/wont/betternotiftheynotwhatsgoodforthem eat it. :) D

Karen...yes, linner is lunch and dinner. Supposed to be a joke, guess it wasn't funny..similar to brunch. Remember there was a problem with my son? Before the problem, I ate better. Only once did I take vitamins on an empty stomach, NEVER again. Even when I ate better, I'd get sick a day or two after starting vitamins. Not stomach aches. Sore throats, coughs, etc. I bought a B-Complex in liquid form at Walmart..It too is sitting on the shelf with the other vitamins and minerals. Yep, I told my doctor what I 'heard.' He knows how I am when it comes to meds anyway, guess he thought I'd give them a shot. What he didn't know is, when I'm prescribed a new medication, test or surgery, I Google, search the web. Then make up my mind. After 3 sites said, DEATH, 'first line' I knew the pills were going down the toilet. Side effects were awful and very scary. Karen, the pills were Anti-Inflammatories. I don't know if they were non-steroid. After reading your thread, I searched for a site that lists prescription anti-inflammatories. If I heard the name I'd probably recognize it. All I remember is they were oval, orange, and super expensive. The doc gave me a sample box. They're meant to take once a day. They had to be new or semi-new because they only came brand name, no generic. This is how it worked. Docs give enough 'sample' pills to last a week. There's a phone number on the box. You call the number, and they give you a code. The code is basically a coupon for your first order. 75.00 off. I asked the pharmacist the cost..she said it depends on the mgs and our insurance. She also said, expect to pay 'around' 200.00 for a months supply..Out of pocket, not counting insurance. The pills don't contain opiates. One ingredient was the non-aspirin pain medication that they found causes liver damage. I don't use Aleve, sp, Advil, Tylenol, Ibuprofen or Motrin. (For pain, I take one of two powdered asprins: BC's or Goody's.) There's a humongous dossage of the pain med that causes liver problems, and other ingredients in this anti-inflammatory. That's the reason I said, the doc was supposed to tell me not to take aspirin or non-aspirins before and during taking this pill. For one, it will cause severe stomach aches. And other stomach related issues............ Karen, if you, or if anyone else is reading this thread, knows a site w/drug information and pics, will you please give me the address? I checked drug dot com, but didn't find it. The letter V comes to mind, but I checked V's, no luck. Karen, if I find the name, I'll let you know. It pi$$es me off they come out with dangerous meds, and use people as guinea pigs. To make money..What's wrong with old medications? Pills that worked? One doctor said, when we prescribe new drugs a few people will die...That's to be expected..As far as I'm concerned, one person who dies from trying a new medication, 'to get better,' is one too many. That IDIOT!

Figs: You'll be much further ahead of the game if you forget about fertilizing and give them a long cold rest for the winter, placed directly on the floor of an unheated garage or buried against the foundation of a heated building on its north side, away from sun and wind. They'll wake in spring with almost all of their stored energy, rather than showing you a weak spring push because their reserves steadily declined over winter due to unfavorable indoor conditions. If you DO decide to overwinter indoors, you'll find compost to be a woefully inadequate NPK source. If you're looking for best results for container culture, any commonly found soluble fertilizer in a 3:1:2 ratio (24-8-16, 12-4-8, 9-3-6 are all 3:1:2 ratios) will efficiently deliver most or all of the elements essential to normal growth (depending on what you choose) and allow you to keep TDS/EC at the lowest levels possible without deficiencies - which would be a significant plus in dry indoor conditions because the low TDS/EC will facilitate water uptake; but again, the best course for the figs would be to give them the rest they want. Al

I would agree with the above advice - in the house would be too warm. But I don't think that's what you want to do, or am I wrong? I would, as Dirtslinger suggested, let it get a couple of frosts, lose all its leaves, and then put it in as sheltered a spot as you can outside - beside the house or an outbuilding, surround it in mulch or straw/hay bales or leaves - or use the double-pot method, or sink it in the ground - all means of protecting it to some degree - and make sure it is well watered up until it freezes. Another option is to place it in an unheated building, crawlspace or porch, keeping it as cold as you can - if the soil and roots don't then freeze, make sure they don't dry out - and protect it from leafing out before it gets warm outside by keeping it out of any sun. Once it warms up outside, then move it out to a sheltered area, and gradually acclimate it to "real life" again. I would check either in a bonsai book (one suited to your area, not one for southern CA, or the PNW, where winter climate is very different!) or over on the bonsai forum, since what you have at the moment is effectively a bonsai-ed young tree. They may have more specific advice.