Fig height
How tall did our Chicago
Hardy fig get this year?
Just shy of 10 feet, even
after the hard frost it suffered last year.
The Celeste was almost half as high.
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Teresa --- We're always tweaking our winter-protection campaign. This was our technique last year, which worked pretty well except when the tarp on top slid to the side. This seems to be sufficient for a young fig tree, unless we get an extreme winter like last year.
As for indoors ripening --- I haven't tried it, but wouldn't expect it to work. Figs plump up to about four times their normal size as they ripen, and I can't imagine that happening without access to phloem!