This is my first bud from a clipping sent by Pino, nothing professional here but I am having some great fun.




   

Looks good! Fun's what it is about.

Bottles are good idea. Better then bags. Thanks for the tip. Wete did you get the big perlite

Pete: Good idea on the water below the pot. Also, are those pots the type from cow manure?

Figpig, I ordered it on line from Amazon  Hoffman Perlite 18 quarts.

Meg, these composed cups are what I start my vegetable seedlings from, the disadvantage is I cant see the root growth, but the advantage is that I will not disturb the roots system when I move it to a 1 gallon pot.   

Very nice!! I hope they grow into great trees for you. And thanks for the tips...

thanks! my only concerns is that the house is 68 degrees and its the beginning of January. Hate yo lose it for lack of warmth

If you have humidity in bottles your golden.

Thx for the great recycle use of the pop bottle Peter. I am using lg pop bottles with the tops cut off and holes bunchberry for my rooting cups. Now a cool use for the smaller tops as a humidity dome. Love the creative use of common materials.

single digits tonight Jodi, the next few days will be the test. Wish it was late February.

I would love to build a narrow glass frame box for these, something maybe two feet long, five inches wide and a foot high enclosed. What a wonderful fig starter that would be.

And I am sending you waves of warm sunshine from Cabo Peter. Flew into Mexico yesterday. All the happy green plants and brown people! Cervezas and chilies. I wonder if they grow figs here?

Thanks Jodi, being Sicilian and loving warmth, I appreciate it!
I would think Fig trees have migrated to every state and every country by now :)

Ah Sicily! On my list for a warm sojourn someday. I love your statement that the Figs are migrating! I believe they are. And I know they have a huge tree here they call a banyon or sycamore Fig in Baja. They are huge growing on the sides of canyons out of cracks in the granite boulders. Keeping their feet dry, food fir the birds. On the lookout for Ficus carica. ;-)