I've had some Hardy Chicago cuttings sitting in an oven bag full of moist perlite for a few weeks now. No signs of roots yet, but there are several albino shoots with leaves. Is this bad? Should I leave the leaves alone, or pull them off until the plant has some roots? The rooting bags are completely in the dark, so I don't think the leaves are going to do much good anyway. Anything I can do to encourage roots instead of leaves?

those leaves won't do anything to help the cutting. if the bag has too much moisture, it might actually rot sooner or later. but removing them also is not a great idea. why place it in total darkness? i know sun light doesn't help, but room light shouldn't do anything to cause issue as far as rooting is concerned. 

also, i don't understand when you say "in an oven bag full of moist perlite". is the cutting covered with perlite? or sitting on top of it? i know with other members using moss, some just let it sit on the top of the moss. but i use paper towel and make sure the bottom of the cutting is wrapped with it. 

if there is sign of growth, leaves or roots at 3-4 weeks, i would just move it to a cup. if the cuttings stays in a bag too long, there is great chance of rot. 

Can you post a picture of it?

Get those leaves under 100W equivalent CFLs, preferably 5000K.  They will produce food for the cutting and help it survive.  I would put it in a cup of perlite with the leaves sticking out.  They won't be used to regular air so you'll either need to mist them frequently or keep the whole cup in a humidity chamber (search on humidity chamber if you need to) and wean the cutting from it.  Good luck.

Those leaves will do you no good, take them off asap.  If the cutting is shooting leaves but not roots it is going to continue to distribute energy to leaves and not enough energy to creating roots.  You want the maximum amount of energy going to root production right now.  Just cut them off so it can't waste more energy on them.

Also plants can't be albino. :-)

Fig cuttings only produce stems at nodes, 1 stem per node.  If you break those off will you have any nodes left to produce stems?   I wouldn't do that.

Well, I don't have time to take a picture... but it looks pretty much like any other sprout off a fig cutting, except that since there is no chlorophyll, it looks like white asparagus.

To clarify what I'm doing with the bags: I have a mix of about 80/20 perlite/vermiculite. I wet down the mix and let it sit in a colander for a few hours before transferring to freezer bags (I know I said oven bags before, but I meant freezer). I stuffed the cuttings into the mix so that they are completely covered - not touching the bag. I also left plenty of air in each bag before sealing the zipper. I then put all bags into a brown paper sack and set it on top of my computer. I open each bag a few times a week to let them breathe. I have a min/max thermometer inside the bag that tells me the temperature stays between 80-85F. I know that's a little warm - maybe that's why they decided to sprout prematurely?

I'm going to go with Jon's advice here and get those things into some cups. They got to go to cups anyway.

Thank you all for your advice!