I Heard it was a slow grower but this is crazy I started this cutting the beginning of January and this is what it looks like today 6 months later it has roots and I made a small incision yesterday and the sap immediately started running ??? 

Anyone else have cuttings doing anything like this?  

       

Still green so just playing hard to get.... At least you now have confirmation that it is still alive....  I had a Hative d'Argenteuil cuttings in rooting medium since roughly Thanksgiving (bought it from Bill (Saxonfig) around 11/25) and it finally budded just recently....

I have a Baud Sucrette cutting that just put out it's​ first leaf after rooting for 18 months.

So you hold the record so far,  I have another BNR that I up potted in a 4 gallon pot beautiful leaves but it stopped growing I think the roots are trying to catch up These dam figs! 

Not a record I would want.... I want my cuttings to root and leaf out 24-48 hours after potting them and then grow like crazy.... is that asking for too much....   :-)

Aloha Figgysid1 18 months are you kidding ? I dare someone to beat that !!! 

My Navid's Unknown Dark Greek was doing the same thing with just green buds in a tall 4x4x9 pot for 4 months so I decided to check for roots but it did not have any. Cut a bit of the bottom end and it was still green so I decided to graft it last week. No action yet. Have one Smith that just has a long green stem for a couple of months with no root action on it too. Had a similar unknown Azores last year that would not do a thing all summer so I cut it above the bottom last node and then it finally woke up and grew some leaves and roots. It is now in the ground and doing fine with some figs on it.

Larsb I actually have a couple that did the same thing I pulled one out of the pot yesterday it was still green and not one root that had to be in the pot for 4 or 5 months I can't believe how long these fig cuttings could stay alive sitting at room temperature for months without rotting , drying up, and not dying amazing 

Hi Dave, yes I couldn't believe that some varieties could hang for that long and not rot away. I had an Emalyn's Purple though that had rotted out with the same rooting class which had the equal treatment.

I changed the soil and pot twice in the first 12 months. Looks like it put a second leaf on, but does not look like it wants to grow a third anytime soon.

By comparison this is a cutting I planted at about the same time. HD Capri grew 12ft tall in the first year. I even cut 4ft off the top, because it kept tipping over in the wind. It's trunk is 3 inches across at the base.

Heres my other BNR it's doing quite nicely 

 

Dave,

 I have a couple types stalled like your BNR. They are holding on outside.

I am hoping if we ever see the sun again they will pop.

 Mike 

I hear you Mike take a look at this forecast it looks like rain every other day maybe I should of gotten into growing cranberries ???

 

Some of the best tasting varieties are slow growers. This includes Hative d'Argenteuil, Noire de Caromb, Col Littmans Black Cross etc...but are worth the wait.
About a couple of years ago, I saw a nice size Hative d'Argenteuil tree, at a local nursery, so I grabbed it. It hardly grew any new branches.

Here's how it looks today.










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Wow! Nice looking plant and figs, Sas! How does the fig taste? As I posted in the thread above, I have one cutting that finally popped buds after sitting doing nothing from end of November to just recently.... Am hoping it grows out and I get to taste figs in my lifetime....   :-)

Tony, may You live a million years and get to enjoy those figs, but from cutting on this one, don't expect to see fruit before at least two years and if any it won't be that much.
Tastewise, it's in the same group as the Ronde de Bordeaux, Noire de Caromb, st. Rita, Noire de Bellone.
It's hard for me to describe a flavor especially when I mix different varieties in the same plate. I know for sure that the older a tree gets the tastier the fruit becomes, as I experienced from my Celeste. I'll try harder this summer and report back unless the mockingbird beat me to it. It's always a race and sometimes I pick the fruit a little earlier than I'm supposed to.
I hope that you have a Celeste. My tree puts out fruit like no other in pots.

I have a few that are like that. All started in tree pots and several have roots coming out the bottom like crazy but no leaves. Others that I started in Jan show no signs of life or death, they just are.. LOL. I'm giving them all 2 more weeks then I am chopping them into 1 or 2 node cuttings and trying again.

Thank you, Sas...   Hope springs eternal.... W/R/T Celeste.... Yes, I do.... its a very nice variety and has awesome flavor when left on the tree to ripen fully. Then of course, its a matter of fighting off the wasps that also love the figs....

Not slow grower at all...

I have had some from MP in November 2016.

This is the current status....

   Sometimes there is just no rhyme or reason for the plants to act so differently in growth patterns and fruit production from one to another. I've taken cuttings from the same tree branch off of my own tree and placed them into medium. One grew great roots and pushed out long stems, another pushed moderate leaves and roots, and the third grew enough roots to support a five foot tree, and never had a single leaf form. It just sat there and then died over a year later.

Thats true Blue if I were Norbert and his BNR that grew that quick I would take real good care of that plant cause there ain't too many like it