Just wondering, how many weeks on average does it take for cuttings to root?

The record for me was 5 days. About 2 months on the other side of the spectrum.

Variable for me. Some early, some late. Never a pattern, though, with any cutting, it seems. This year I started some each week in January through March. The later ones have been rooting much quicker. The overall average is probably 4 weeks.

5 days is pretty sweet!! My best this year is 19 days.

Some cuttings root faster than others.  Maybe it's the health of the cutting?

Takes 30-60 days for me.

I had identical cutting from the same source in the rooting box side by side, one had roots in 16 days, the other 2 months later still does not.  It varies from cultivar to cultivar, cutting to cutting, method to method, person to person, how long they were dormant, how they were handled by the seller and receiver...  and on and on and on.

I am consistent at 15 days with my method of vitamino and coir in the dark and 78 degrees have many long roots in 16 days

I've also seen a lot of variability in rooting times.  Shortest time for me to see roots (in a 32 oz container) is around 2 weeks.  Longest observed time so far has been around 3 months.  On average, I see roots in 3-4 weeks with my cuttings stuck in deli containers and kept in a bin at 78F.

Well, the thing is you shouldn't give up as long as they are green and healthy with no mold.  Sometimes people put prunings in the compost bin and a long time later a tree pops up.

Suzi

You have to factor in many variables. One of the most important factors is the health of the mother plant. I've seen some of my cuttings root as fast as one week. This is taking in consideration that I took the cuttings from a healthy dormant plant. As grow media I used 50% Peat 50% Perlite under a heat mat. This was done around mid November. Cuttings planted within 48 hours of being taken from the mother plant.

Another example using the same method from cuttings I purchased on ebay. I have no clue how long the cuttings where stored or refrigerated. After three months of waiting I was ready to give up on them. Then out of nowhere roots starting to give way. So hence, patience is a virtue. Don't give up because variables, experience all play a major role.

I am doing something Wrong!! I have never had a cutting to root in 5 days?? I have rooted over a 150 cuttings, maybe I am doing something Wrong!! : ) edit: I guess my average would be around 3 weeks.

Frank, you are doing nothing wrong, as long as they root and live then you are doing everything right.

My average is 2 - 3 weeks.  If they haven't rooted in 4-5 weeks I feel they're not liking their environment so I change it.

I had a lone preto cutting that took 15 weeks to root.  Its still in a cup growing slowly.

I had Nero 600M in sphagnum moss at 76-78F well rooted in a week.

I find some fig varieties seem to root as fast as a week and some take months.  I have been rooting Naples White and Florea since

December and finally this week the NW grew a couple of healthy looking roots.  The Florea finally sprouted 1 little leaf but no roots yet.
In the same environment others have started growing in a few weeks and I have long since up-potted them. 

Proper environment aside,  I think the fig variety, the health of the cutting and the growing/dormancy state are all factors that determine rooting timeline.

This is all interesting to me because prior to this year I have never tried to root fig cuttings, always just threw them away when I pruned. I have however rooted many other fruits over the years and this year I needed 2 more Thompson Seedless grape starts so I decided to see what would happen if I tried figs at the same time. When I pruned in mid January I kept 16 cuttings total from my Brown Turkey, Conadria and Kadota bushes. I had some peat moss that came wrapped around a couple of bare root fruit trees I planted in early January that I nested some of them in and the rest, along with 3 grape cuttings, were loosely wrapped in wet newspaper, set in a small plastic tub in the space above my kitchen cupboards. I ventilated them the 1st couple of days then promptly forgot about them for a week. On the 9th day I opened the tub and found all the grape and half the fig cuttings showed roots and leaf buds while the rest of the figs had roots started! by the end of the 3rd week all were settled into cut-off 2 liter pop bottles and nested in deep tubs as hot houses under the patio cover on the north side of my house.. At the end of the 5th week all had visible roots and well developed leaves. The 6th and seventh weeks I began hardening them off in partial shade with the lids off. Two weeks ago I began re-potting them into 5 gallon pots I got used from a local nursery. Today, at the end of 9 weeks all the figs are growing like mad (the grapes are ready to go into the ground) and I don't have a clue what to do with the potted figs. Just another case of curiosity getting me in trouble in my old age!!
 

One of my cuttings has roots after 5 1/2 weeks Valle Negra. 5 days ago I transfered to 5-1-1 mix after being in straight perlite the whole time and doing nothing. When I pulled it out of the perlite it had tiny little root bumps and in five days it shot roots to the side of cup. I think there is something about an organic mix over just perlite. This was in a humidity chamber also.

It definitely varies for me, too.  I have cuttings from last September that rooted in 2 weeks outdoors.  Over the winter, I used humidity domes and heat mats and it seemed that some started to root in a couple of weeks, most by 4 weeks or so.  I have more rooting outdoors again, and I spotted some roots just today on cuttings that I put outside 3 weeks ago.  At the same time, cuttings I tossed to the side of the potting bench that I thought were dried up and dead back in November are sitting in the ziplock bag with roots and leaves.  I guess I'll pot them up.

I rooted my cuttings in 4 different batches this year. Last night I checked one of the first group of cuttings I started (in January) and it finally rooted - after 10 weeks. Other cuttings of the same variety and in the same batch rooted weeks ago and I've potted them up already. Pretty sure they have a mind of their own.

Totally agree with everyone here: It is impossible to tell when figs will start rooting. I have had instances when cuttings form the same plant root in 2-3 weeks apart from eachother, even when placed under the same conditions.
However, the biggest differences I see are usually when rooting different kids of figs, as you will soon notice that certain types will grow more aggressively or vigorously than others.

Good Luck!

This may just be the case with me .....but I got cuttings around jan cuttings 2 weeks ago cut myself ...and cuttings Feb 18th and cuttings that were token 2 weeks ago are roting and pushing out leaves seen the leaves first the 3rd day!!!! But I checked them Sunday and had roots I the cuttings from feb 18th are starting initials and I finally see brebas on the atreano from Jan and initials but nothing on the other cuttings seems to me that the later you take them the easier it is to root them