Hello,
I had several cuttings in clear cups filled with perlite. They were doing great with the roots hitting the sides of the cups. The minimal top growth seemed to have suffered from excessive humidity (they were all in a big plastic tupperware type thing with a tight lid). I had wet sphagnum moss in there also to raise the humidity. Will the damping off, which weakened and killed most of the top growth, kill the roots also? Or will the roots and cutting be fine as long as I dry the conditions out? Should I cut off the brown and shriveled parts? Thanks for any help. 

Hi Cipriano,
hopefully this will start others posting here.
At this point since you can see the roots what color are they?
Are the several cutting cups still in the bin with lid closed tight.

Thanks for the replies. The roots were a mix of milky white and light brown. I actually up-potted them into a mix of perlite, seedling mix and potting soil and have removed them from the humid environment. I assumed that (if the damping off hadn't killed them) it was time for them to get into some soil and get some sunlight. Am I getting ahead of myself or am I on the right track?

I have had limited success by taking the potted plant to the kitchen sink, cover the potting soil with a paper towel, use a tooth brush and brush the stem and dead tissue until green show, then stop, and allow to dry.  Take the plant back to the Tupperware or Sterlite container, except this time, turn the top cover at a slight angle to allow air movement.  I allow the plants to receive morning filtered sunlight which also helps with air movement and photosynthesis without cooking the plant and also seems to help keep fungus away.

Hi Cipriano,
glad others came to post.
You said roots are wilky white to light brown , they are fine.
Im thinking as others probably and you as well  with that lid tightly sealed and no air movement they started to suffer and hopefully were caught in time.
Think of being in the  hot rain forest stuck in a tent with no vents open  ; )
You tranplanted them which i think is ok long as you dont overwater them and did not disturb to root sytem to much and giving them some fresh  house air should be good in my opinion along with filtered sun thru a window.
They might stall on you for a bit where you see nothing happeneing but yes i think your on the right track.
Now in time the stem will either bend over and die or in time they will slowly start to put on leaves . Sounds like you did what you could do for them.

Some super-ultra-flawless experts (or liars ;) ) may argue with me, but I think rot is inevitable.  Out of approximately 150 cuttings I've done this year, I've lost 2-3 to rot, and 2-3 to stupidity (early transfer) so far.

No matter how good you are, cutting survival relies on so many factors, and you can only keep so many of those factors "perfect".  There's nothing wrong with trying to ressurect a cutting too far gone, but ... at some point, you need to just chalk up a "bad cutting" to be just that - a bad cutting.

I dont mean to get to far off subject.
If a person never rotted a fiig scion then they have not tried to root enough of them.
As for me i could never be a fig expert as i believe when it comes to figs there are just to many doggone variables with them in most catagories, especially in there indentity.
Shoot for instance i ve seen posts on both forums on how the exact same plant looks different in another state in fruit and leaf shape. But its exciting and interesting.

To Jason
yup just rotted 2 very stuborn panache sticks this season as they seemed to repel water. I sure fiixed them after a while darn stubborn sticks they were either gonna root or rot so they chose there destiny i just helped them along the way. ; )

All of the ones I've rooted have been subjected to the same variables as others of the same variety, somehow a couple end up with rot that hollows the cutting out from the middle, or leaves the stick so flimsy I could tie it into a knot.  I can't explain it.

Maybe using the baggie method, the one disadvantage is you may unknowingly end up with mold at a 'more open' site like leaf scar.  You may not see it, but it's really there....  fortunately, I have spares of each one.  I am still happy with rooting sucess, if my only loss is 5 in 150, this is sufficient for me, especially when some of those 150 were cut into multiple cuttings, and all of those managed to survive also!  By some people's standards, I could still be at a rooting percentage about 100% ;)

Some cuttings that I had given up on after repeated failures were taken to the compost pile,"not the trash can" and grew again despite my lack of faith.  "Never say never" if you have a source of soil to dispose of them in, even outside in warm weather.