Describe your cutting technique so that we can figure out what you are doing wrong. And what is the medium you are presently using? Azaleas are pretty easy, so we should be able to get you on the right path.

as for our medium straight building sand, sand/perlite, pine bark mulch,peat/perlite, and 1/3 peat/perlite/pine bark mulch. we currently have cuttings in all of the above. The process to get the cuttings is as follows: clean a razor blade with rubbing alchol, cut about 3" of new growth from mother plant, remove all leaves but just a couple at the very top, scrape about 1" of the outter layer of cutting with my fingernail on 2 sides, roll cutting in hormone powder, stick cutting in medium where we have pre-made a hole. mist with our misting system or manually, we have tried both.

Hmmmmm. I've never removed outer bark from azalea cuttings...and I don't think you need to. Perhaps the removal of even that little bit of phloem results in slower root initiation? Remember, the energy required to make the new roots comes from the leaves and is transported via the phloem (just under the bark). If you are pre-drilling the holes, make sure that the cuttings are watered in afterwards to insure solid stem to soil contact. You really don't need to pre-drill holes with stem cuttings.

Your rooting medium shouldn't be saturated at all times. Oxygen is critical to the formation of new roots. If you have the misting system on long enough to drench the medium, it's too much.

This is an excellent time to take cuttings of azaleas, so it would be worthwhile to keep trying.

Thanks we will keep trying

You might try, not scraping the bark, if the cutting is clean, there should be enough exposed already. Make sure your cutting has a couple of buds on it , at least one close to the cut, since that is where most of the adventitious cells are. When you remove the leaves, just snip them, or pull them off very carefully so as not to remove the dormant bud underneath.

this needs to be done in the late fall