Hi Iam trying to contact a member but cant do so, my email address has changed and if I tried to contact member,I would recieve there reply. Peg please e-mail me at new email address jzigmont@comcast

Ummm, btfig, that does not make any sence but ok. Isnt that what you want to do is recieve their reply?

Anyway. Cuttings can be done any time of the year as long as you keep the temp up (not too hot) and the humidity high. Its best in the spring cause the rooted cutting can then just be placed outside. I got bougenvilla to root in november by using bottom heat.
Now the second part. Just because there are leaves does not mean there are roots. The twig you planted had sugars reserved inside of it capable of making roots or leaves. It may have put on leaves before the roots. Keep the plant in a humid spot, just like you have been doing for about a total of 4-6 weeks. If you do not have roots by then, well, I dont have an answer for you.
Good luck.

Bill,
Thank you for letting me know about the humidity being a factor. It does seem to be key in rooting many plants.
It was potted w/ rooting hormone on the cutting, the pot has been in a gallon ziploc bag, opened slightly. It lost it's orignal leaves weeks ago, but just started growing a new one. Because of the time elapsed, I was thinking that it had rooted. I am not going to check it for roots, since everything I've read says to leave it the heck alone!
The fig is going for a brief stint outside in my 'cutting area' which is just a sheltered overhang by my porch, protected from sun and wind. I'm going to yank it inside before the outside night time temps dip below 50F.
The parent plant used to summer outdoors, then come back in the house with cooler weather in fall. At this point it used to lose its leaves and any unripened figs. Then it just sat in front of a south window, looking very bare until about February, when the whole thing suddenly leafed out again! A great sign that spring was on its way.
Now that I know they can be rooted, any varietal recommendations and reliable sources for cuttings would be appreciated. I'm kind of keen on starting from cuttings, if possible. (I like the challenge of starting from scratch!)
-Ann

Ok, almost all cuttings, you want to remove the leaves prior to planting. Sometimes I leave only one leaf on if I know it will root (eg banyan). The reason for that is the leaves you leave on create a water demand. Since there are no roots, the cutting dies. If you cut off all the leaves and then it keeps its sugar reserve (sap) to build both roots and leaves, so they usualy grow together.

I just made a growing container by buying two clear plastic containers (one is 20 gal, the other 10 gal) and flip one ontop of the other. I have steril medium to root into.

The easy way to start figs is by hardwood cutting. In December or before a hard freeze I cut my fig trees back.

I use the material for cuttings. You may wrap them in newspaper, and dampen them and keep them in the refrigerator in a plastic bag. Or cover them in the ground horrizonal until spring time.

I make cuttings about 12 inches long. In the spring I turn the soil over with a shovel, and with a short pipe I drive it into the ground where I want a fig tree to grow.

Then I place the hardwood cutting in the hole after taking the pipe out of the ground. I leave one or two buds above the ground. They are in the ground so deep I haven't tried to transplant any.

Soft wood cuttings are not practical as most of them die.

See my link to hard wood cuttings of figs.

Karyl

Here is a link that might be useful: Hard Wood Fig Cuttings

Seems that there's more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak! Thanks for the information.
I see that someone on Ebay is offering Celeste and Italian White fig cuttings. Any opinions on whether this would be something worth bidding on?

-Ann

Ann, I bought the cuttings in question about 3 weeks ago. Please keep in mind that I am very new to the world of figs. I have read many posts about sellers misrepresenting figs so I am not sure if they truely are Brooklyn white and Celeste. I can state that the seller shipped fast, and when I received them, they were showing root initials. In the last week, roots are growing vigorously and they are leafing out nicely. I am going to transfer them to 1 gallon pots next week.

that's what puzzles me about softwood cuttings. you'd think these would be newer from the meristem and be more able to change cells into root cells. i've only had about 12% success rooting green, succulent cuttings of figs. my next step will be to try a misting bed.

If you are starting green cutting and they grow leaves first should you remove the leaf?

JA,
Go to Figs4fun forum and search for "rooting green cuttings"

There are ton's of info on that!

Regards
Cecil

This is great! Thanks for all the opinions and info.

I'm going to look on ebay for some of those cuttings--they were cheap enough to try without risking much.

Might want to start a new thread for this since it's a separate question from the cuttings question!
I haven't really heard any suggestions yet for what figs to try if I can only have a few. Anybody?

Chills & Rob live in Mi.
They could give you good advise!

There is another dude in Mi I personally would not under any circumstance do business with, or trust anything he said.

Regards and good luck.
Cecil

Ann,
I shot you an email
Cecil

Cecil,

Back atcha!

-Ann