If you are one of us who, sometimes, puts cuttings directly into the ground and watch them die ... well, I have a story for you :)
I know how ecstatic you must be seeing your cuttings coming back from dead. Last year my friend had brought few branches of his fig tree and pushed it in the ground somewhere in my garden, I had neglected them both and surely enough they dried out and i broke them off from ground level, but had left the bellow ground parts. Last spring, towards summer I noticed two thin brunches coming out of the ground where each dead fig branches were. I put a tomato fence around them so the gardener wouldn't trash them, now they are about 8 inches high and in deep sleep ;)

good to know. i've been thinking of trying that.

I planted an ischia about a foot high. Deer must have thought it was soemthing else because they bit it off right at the ground. It is now about a foot high but I have a 4 foot high  fence around it to keep it from happening again while it matures.

I've got a raised bed full of alma cutting right now with a couple black missions. Don't know what I'm going to do with them all if they take off. Just experimenting with bagging, heat cold, moisture, etc.

Aaron, I apologize if I sound too critical, but your signature line is way too long and rather irritating to have to scroll past all the time. If you use commas, you'd be able to condense it considerably. Thanks.

Gina.
Honestly I've been thinking about that myself too. I'll do that ASAP
thnaks

Thanks Aaron, very nice of you.  Others were probably just too polite to say anything.  ;)

Gina are you serious?

This method does work but you may not want to try it with a variety you only have a piece or two of.

I've buried cuttings under mulch in the fall or winter & then in the spring go back & pull the mulch back just enough to expose small sections of the cuttings. Leave most of the cutting(s) below the mulch. Seems like a good method in cold climates if you have a lot of one variety to play with. I've produced many viable trees this way. Just be sure to pot them up or protect them before the first frosts come the following fall.