I'm confused about this. If you graft onto other rootstock I have no doubt you can make it take. But if/when the grafted trunk or branch freezes the shoot that emerges will be from the rootstock and the graft will be gone will it not?
Instead of a graft perhaps what you need to do is make an air-layer using a branch of the desirable tree? You can easily find more on this method by using the search function here. Good luck, and please clarify if I am indeed in a cloud...

Glenn

I'm having a difficult time parsing Sue's post.

The best I can figure is that she is using the term "graft" to mean propagation. I think Sue wants to root cuttings from her tree (or layering would work too).

Sue, am I reading it correctly? Grafting is when you take material from the tree you want to have another of and splice it onto the roots of an existing tree.

I think you would rather create another tree altogether that has roots, branches, and fruits like the one you already have. There are a number of means to do that described in earlier posts on this forum. You could search for "layering" or "rooting" or "propagation".

Grafting is one form of propagation but it requires you to already have a host tree (rootstock). It doesn't increase the total number of trees you have, it just allows you to determine the variety of the branches and fruit.

My apologies for the misunderstanding as I'm not familiar with the right terms and am a novice at gardening. What I want to do, I gather, is not to graft the fig branch onto another tree - I want to "propagate" the tree - a friend wants a cutting of my tree to start her own fig tree - what I wanted to know was, how to give her a branch or a cutting from my tree so that she can start her own tree. I vaguely remember from an uncle who passed away, that he would just take a branch and stick it in the ground, but I'm sure that's not correct. So, again, any advice on how to "propagate" my fig tree? Thanks to all.

Sue,
The surest method would be to do an air-layer. Do a search of the forum and there are several good posts. Good luck.