A while back I posted a picture of a cutting with the root growing on the wrong end. Well this is what I did to it.

First I cut it in half and made two cuttings out of it. There was a sprout on both side of the cutting about 3 inches apart. There was no way I could pot it without burying one of the sprouts thus losing one. I laid both pieces horizontal and covered mostly with potting mix. Since I couldn't bury it deeply because of the buds, I covered them with sphagnum. Here are the results and pictures.

Straight out of baggie.
 

In the pot


This is what I found under the sphagnum


More roots on the underside


Here it is potted


The other half is still not showing initials.

I love BOGOs (buy one get one free) Way to go
Sal

Good move Gene. Looks like you may get two out of it.

gene
What is the composition of your rooting mixture?
It looks good and helped good in rooting.

Gene,
That's very creative, Looking good.

Jason, If I get the one to grow into a tree I'll be happy. If the other one grows into a tree, someone else will be happy because it will become a gift.

Ottawan, my mix is nothing fancy. It's just Miracle Grow potting mix without fertilizer or water retention additives, that I mix with perelite about 60/40.

Thanks Rafed, you know you started this madness by giving me those cuttings. I must sincerely say I'm thankful to you for giving my life another dimension.

Sal, there's never anything wrong with extras, we Cajuns like lagniappe.

I wonder what would happen if you planted it upside down would it still send the new branches up? I know someone who did his with a grape vine and thats exactly what happened the Vine sent new branches up through the dirt.

What is that white marker?
It seems to be better (visible) than the (waterproof) black Sharpie marker I use...
How long does it last?

Also, related question:  When you have a multi-node cutting, and you have buds close to the rooting end which will be below soil, has anyone ever had a problem with burying them?  Does anyone do anything special with them, cut them off?  I've been burying mine, and have not seen problems, but I have seen a couple send other shoots up from the soil away from the main trunk.

I could be wrong, but marker looks like a Testor's paint marker for models. 

Nelson I've seen grape vines do that also, but I've never tried it with figs.

George the white marker is a paint marker which I got from work. They come in all colors and we use the different colors as codes (yellow = operator; white = quality control) and so on. It's pretty tuff stuff, I also use it to mark my pots rather than tag the trees. That way I don't have to worry about a tag being torn off and lost.

Jason, you get the cigar, it's a paint marker.  If I have a strong bud or two above the soil line then I would break off the one below since it's not needed. I want all my trees to be trees and not bushes so off they go. Now in other parts of the country where they die back to ground level it might be better to let them grow.

I hope this isn't posting twice, the other one disappeared.

After transplanting the first cutting to a pot, I covered the second one with sphagnum. Well here is a picture of it 15 days later. I removed all the sphagnum and covered the exposed roots with UPM.

How often do they grow multiple limbs from one node like that? I though that each node was design to grow and support one bud.

AFB I don't really know the answer to that one but I have another rooted cutting of the same variety that has 3 buds growing at one node. I also have about 4 others that are growing only 1 bud per node.