Good day, I got behind a few months ago, then the wife wanted to go on vacation. Then I had to check on air layers and then I forgot about a second batch of cuttings in my fridge. So, the last week of September, I started some more cuttings. I got great success and instead of putting these outside, I'm having to add lights to an existing shelf and build another. Just finished making this table. Tomorrow, I have to get 2 more lights and bulbs. I got 4 more trays of cuttings to pot up. More pics tomorrow....I have to clean out the corner and move this table there. I started these cuttings with those Riot cubes Rafed mentioned. Thanks again Rafed!

I said I would never start up cuttings in the Fall. Never say never!





enjoy!

Nice, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Dennis looks like you got enough to keep you busy. I got one word for ya..... greenhouse. Lol

I vowed No cuttings this winter too. But I got at least four deals already lined up.

Like you say "never say never!

Awesome!

I thought I was finished with cuttings too. (How many fig trees can one human have?)(No need to answer.) But starting figs is so much fun.. and rewarding. I also have 'a couple things lined up' and have fallen into 'while I'm at it'...  Not as many as Dennis however, lol.

I also want to start some of the figs that I now know do well here and taste great. I want to give away a lot of figs to friends and neighbors, and would prefer them to be the best of the best instead of ones that would better be destroyed.

Dennis  - never  !

Nice work Dennis. I always root cuttings as soon as I receive them, fall, spring, whenever 

Tony, I have a greenhouse but temperatures inside ramp up pretty fast and the little guys will overheat and cook inside there. So, I keep them inside my insulated unheated garage. I use my GH for my 3gal trees and some 2gal trees. They can handle the cold nights inside the GH even if temps drop to 25 degrees. BUt I do place a small heater inside temps get too low.

Temps inside my garage is controllable. I keep it around 50 or 60 in the garage. It's play time and time to relax and plan for next year. I did forget about these cuttings though. Most of the cuttings are UCD cuttings received in April and some unknowns like Bryant Dark, Tim Light, Unknown white spainish, unknown black greek, Roma, Rose Mary's fig, Pleasant Grove, Ischia Black, Black Maderia, and some others folks have sent.

If you look close in the second picture on ground, in the far back are around 42 or so figs potted up in tree tubes. These guys will leave out and grow nicely. I mist them twice a day and if it gets too dry, I'll turn on my humidifier for a few hours.

Gina, there are 2 figs that I've wanted for quite some time. They are Trioano Calabrese and Salce. I had some cuttings and I chopped them down to just 2 nodes and every one of those dudes rooted. Mario gives Salce high marks and I so happy to say that now I have SOME. Since the purchase of one Nero 600m fell through. I took some old molded Nero 600m cuttings and was able to get some of them to root. I gave a friend some of these molded cuttings and they rooted for him too. How did I get rid of the mold? I soaked the cuttings in Physan 20 for a few minutes and brushed them lightly. Let them air dry then potted them with Riot Rooters cubes and another technique I won't mention at the moment. The mold came back (on 50% of the cutting) and I just left it alone in the air and stopped misting that one cutting. Now, the cutting is rooted with 3 leaves and doing fine. Here are a few unknowns that I have growing in a tent below.

You're the rooting MAN!  Moldy cuttings surviving is pretty rare.