I attempted to root this large 'sucker', but was too tall, so I cut it up and rooted this stump and grafted several cuttings into it.  So far,  all made it ... except one that is still thinking if should sprout.

Enjoy.


UPATE: FEBRUARY 14, 201: (pictures 69-73)

I put it outside about 2 weeks ago, when I had no more room for it inside. Outside I have a col frame, so it is a bit protected from cold wind an cold rain- since it is grafted in local fig, it seems to have handled  a few nights/days of lower 30's very well.

Grasa,

You are a 'Fig Surgeon'. Enjoy reading your experiments. Great job.

Navid.

Make sure to support the new shoots for a year or two till the develop sufficient wood to support themselves.

WOW THATS PRETY COOL

Nice work!

You never cease to amaze us Grasa!  Thanks for sharing!
Suzi

What would be support? Like a bunch of bamboo? this one would look like a bamboo fan! 

Grasa, you  have some of the best experiments here, on top of that you have awesome pictures to show us. Thank you so much for sharing.

I agree with Jon Grasa. Yes, it may just look like some sort of bamboo fan :) .

I learned the hard way myself this past summer. I had some nice grafts growing well but the next time a big wind came along, I lost a few. I was able to stand one back up and get it to re-grow but I wasn't so fortunate on others. I started adding supports after that.

Cool!
I see a rind graft and several chip/shield grafts, right? Did you do the grafts at the same time you put the "stump" in to root or wait until the bark was slipping?

Awesome.  Grasa I love all of your posts on grafting.

I'm trying to get a huge branch to root that I cut from an enormous rdb this fall.  If it gets going I want to graft black madeira nodes onto it.  Have you had much experience grafting non-dormant on non-dormant?

I don't do the scientific thing.. I just play with them. Greg, I don't think it was dormant.  I got the stump about 2 months ago. It was a huge sucker and when I tried to remove it with roots, I got no roots, it had none, it was attached to the main trunk.  I brought home this 5 feet thing and I tried rooting it sideways, with the rooting end over the heating vent, but it was in the way, I tried under the bed with the rooting end over the vent, but we were tripping on it..then, I noticed the ends were drying out. At that point, I chopped it into several cuttings and put them all in a box to root. I put the box with cuttings upside down. They showed initials (just little white points) 

It was then that I received the cuttings and decided to graft it into it.  I experimented with every kind, with upsidedown T, with upright T, cleft, and whatever worked.  once they were attached, I put it back in the rooting box for the roots to emerge.  Another 2 weeks or so, I saw initial roots, so I planted in a large pot (skipped the cup)   I put a plastic over the grafts and tie, so no gnats would get to the grafts. I put the large pot by my back door, not very warm there, but only place I could put it...it took a while for the buds to emerge, but they all did, except for one.  So i removed all the bands and you see the result.

I like the shape and I like how it rooted regardless of no optimal temperature, because it is a local grown fig!

From my observation, the grafts do better when there is a nursing branch. So I have a few others that I waited for the cutting to show it has a node for nursing branch and I graft. I can decide later to cut the nursing branch or observe if the variety is good to keep. They are all unknowns at this time.