those white bumps are roots in the making. you can pot it in soil right now, just keep the soil moist in warm place. i have done this and have them growing great right now.

Here is a link that might be useful: summer cuttings

Thanks so much for the info & the link - wow!!! I hope mine do as well as yours! So if I keep it inside it will still grow during the winter? I think I'll take more cuttings tomorrow from all of my trees!

yes it should still continue to grow normally in the house even in the winter. Let it be known that those grown indoors can grow leggy compared to others.

Thank you! I'll take leggy, as long as it eventually bears fruit. Wish me luck! Kathy

Kathy,

Since the trees are in your yard, you might also try this simple air layering technique that is guaranteed to work for you.

Find a branch on your tree with a small terminal bud (don't remove it). However,remove all of the leaves from this branch for about 18 inches below this terminal bud.

Next, cut and remove the bottom off of a clear plastic soft drink or juice bottle. Slide the "mouth" of that bottle over the branch that you removed the leaves. Tie that bottle to the branch leaving about 6 inches of the branch above the bottle and in a position where a couple of nodes are inside of the bottle. Scratch those nodes that will be inside of the bottle with some sandpaper. Put a small piece of paper towel or newspaper into the wide opening of the bottle and push it all the way down to the mouth of the bottle to help close it. Fill the bottle with moist potting soil. Cover the plastic bottle completely with aluminum foil.

That branch will root for you within a couple of months if you keep the potting soil moist. When you see lots of roots inside of that clear plastic bottle, cut the branch just below the mouth of that bottle, remove the bottle, and pot up your new tree.

You can see some pictures of this bottle layering technique. I posted them at the beginning of the thread that I have listed below.

Dan

Here is a link that might be useful: Bottle layering technique

Dan, Fantastic!!! I've already taken some additional cuttings, but I'm definitely trying air layering and thank you for a descriptive explanation on how to go about it. Is there a certain time of year that this should be done? If not, I'll get on it next week. Problem is, is that if the cuttings and air layering all make it, I may run out of room!!! Thanks again, Kathy

You can do your air layering anytime from early spring through the beginning of fall. Many of us fignuts have run out of space for new fig trees long ago........but somehow we manage to find room for "just one more".

Dan

hey I just did this too in water the whole thing wilted and looked very sad but with in a week it started to perk up and then little white dots on the stem I got ROOTS - I absolutely love doing this with anything really but for fig yeah wow mine has actually got a little baby leaf coming from the top of the cutting so I think I will sink it into some organic dirt soon and keep him indoors for the rest of the year and in spring I will probably pop him in my garden.

Just as a side note I have been really addicted to doing rooting in water so here is my confession - ready? every time I see a plant I like say in a parking lot or at a beach or whatever I take a little sample and try to root it on my window sill in water. is that wrong? LOL I justify it by thinking its good for the planet to have another new plant

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do tell more about your water rooting process...i tried but never really got any roots except for the little bumps. Did you roots grow in the water? Did you apply and O2 source? I wanted to try again but the military called so I'm unable to do so now.

Trying this also right now with some green cuttings, I put two cuttings in water and Two in Potting mix to see if there is any difference.

I've also been trying to root a green cutting in water, and so far all that I have on it are white bumps and a few baby root tips. Maybe it's time to pot it in soil?

My mother took some green cuttings from a fig tree recently, and then she put them in her aquarium, with the tops sticking out. They grew roots like crazy... several inches in a couple of weeks. But then her fish ate the roots! Now they are just in regular water while the roots grow back.

Joe

Thanks Frozenjoe I have been thinking of doing a similar system for some time now using a bubbling system from an aquarium to root cuttings.

I think that having fish in the tank adds nutrients to the water. Their excrement acts like a natural fertilizer. But you have to watch out that they don't go after the roots. My mother's plecko fish did that.

Joe

I do a lot of greenwood rooting of figs & have never really had a problem with sticking them in peat/perlite mix & rooting them with plastic bags over them for a week or two. Dipping in hormone helps but doesn't seem necessary for a lot of varieties. My understanding is that roots made from rooting in water need to go thru a hardening off anyway to adapt to soil so Im thinking if you root directly in soil yr producing better root growth.

(On the other hand the thought of rooting cuttings in my Koi tank seems like a great opportunity...)

Here is a link that might be useful: Dreamtime Village

Rooting green fig twigs was never my favorite way of rooting
(I prefer dormant ones). However recently, I needed to
cut a couple of large branches off my PN and VdB. I cut
them into smaller parts (mostly tips with some hard-wood,
cut all the leaves off and placed them in a jar with a
shallow ammount of water (under a vented dome). Miracle of
miracles, 1"+ long roots developed ABOVE the water level.
Had to change the little water frequently, else it stunk
of 'rot'. Will be potting up these twigs asap now...
Let's see what happens next.