Cold Damage

My part of north Georgia had a couple of late freezes--the last was April 15/16.  Both were pretty marginal; the one the night of April 15 just touched 32 degrees and did not stay there long--about an hour.  The earlier one the week before dropped the temp to 29.

That's only about three or four degrees above the blueberry killer of 2017, but those few degrees really matter.  My blueberries this time around suffered no damage--they're supposed to be hardy to about 28.  The only plant that suffered at all was a new fig that's still in the pot.

The morning after the frost, some of the leaves looked like they'd been damaged.

Over the next few days the withered parts of leaves completely died.

It's no big deal; most leaves were okay and in any case, it'll put out new leaves to replace those that were lost.

Early spring freezing on new growth isn't the same as whatever has caused some other figs to die--one was lost when it was still leafed out in early November and got hit with a low 20s freeze.  Others have gone dormant and never recovered.  But spring vulnerability is an issue with figs.  It's usually not fatal.