Another method of rooting cuttings

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figarita

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Posted 1391825699	Reply with quote #1

Just wanted to let you know my method of rooting cuttings. I dip the end of the cutting in a rooting hormone and then I just stick all of them directly in the soil. I water the soil and them I cover them with a plastic bag I previously sprayed it with water.I cut a small opening in the top of the bag for a little bit of ventilation. This method works for me better than other methods. Here are the results: This is the evergreen fig cuttings I started at the end of December. They already have roots and are putting on more leaves. Now they grow without the bag over them. This guy is only 1 in above ground and actually the roots started above the ground. I covered them. I should have taken a picture before i covered them but I did not :-( Here are other cuttings I started in the middle of January. Most of them are figs cuttings but I have other cuttings in there too. Pat __________________ Pat Menlo Park , CA zone 9

Aaron4USA

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pino

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Posted 1391832310	Reply with quote #3

My mother uses a similar method (minus the rooting hormone) and she has great success. One secret she does is use long cuttings 18" or longer with as many nodes buried as possible in 3 gal pots. Her cuttings grow into large plants by the end of summer many with figs on them 1st year. __________________ Pino, zone 6, Niagara, JCJ Acres Wish; Peace on earth and more figs Italian 258, Galicia Negra, Luv, trade suggestions welcome.

figarita

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Posted 1391833203	Reply with quote #4

I had success even with small cuttings and sometimes they make roots above the ground due to the moist medium they are in. I had success with the baggy method too but all my cuttings were dying after I transplanted them to soil, did not matter what I did. In this method the roots are already used with the medium and they like it better. __________________ Pat Menlo Park , CA zone 9

musillid

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Posted 1391862303	Reply with quote #5

Pino, Are you saying your mother does this in Niagara? __________________ Dale non compost mentis in Zone 6a

figarone

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Posted 1391873262	Reply with quote #6

Those look great, figarita - it looks like you are taking good care of 'em! How long will you keep the January cuttings in the pot for (I am sneakily hoping I can ask for a cutting if you have spares!)

pino

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Posted 1391874096	Reply with quote #7

Dale, Yes she lives in Niagara Falls and she gets to eat plenty of figs from her Italian friends and from me all summer long. If she really likes the fig she may ask for cuttings at my bequest. Once they are growing well she gives them away since she is not up to providing winter protection. Fig growers are a generous bunch! __________________ Pino, zone 6, Niagara, JCJ Acres Wish; Peace on earth and more figs Italian 258, Galicia Negra, Luv, trade suggestions welcome.

Jed

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Posted 1391874500	Reply with quote #8

I know this is old school but it worked in Sacramento, CA last spring. I cut some cuttings from a neighbor's unknown fig tree. I placed the cuttings into a potters pot with the local clay soil from the ground and watered. Basically, more than half of them them grew leaves. They are dormant, I guess now. Will see this spring if theyare going to continue growing. I guess I will add your idea for the next set of cuttings which I hope will be known figs. __________________ Sacramento, CA 95825 Zone 9

figarita

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Posted 1391892376	Reply with quote #9

Jed, i did that too. Actually that was the way i rooted a panache cutting. 2 years ago I was lucky to find a long cutting at a gathering. It had no label but I knew must be Panache.I wanted baddly to be successful in rooting it. I divided it in a few cuttings and I tried different methods of rooting . All failed after I transplanted them to the soil. Out of desperation I took the last cutting I had and stuck it in a pot ,no bag cover no anything. It was a small cutting and I left outside only 2 nods. Sure enough this one took it off. Now I have a 2.5 ft tall tree who fruited for me last year when was 1 year old. I am looking forward to eat this beautiful and tasty figs this year too. Last year I started to root my cuttings with a bag over them. Figarone, the only spare I might have is Black Jack. I had like 4 cuttings of it but I can not tell now if all of them took off. In that pot besides figs cuttings I have grapes cutting (saw few buds opened this morning ) and kiwi cuttings .They will stay in the pot until I see more leaves coming out probably couple of weeks. __________________ Pat Menlo Park , CA zone 9

ascpete

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Posted 1391895847	Reply with quote #10

Figarita, Thanks for sharing your rooting method.

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