I thought I'd get a jump on the season this year,  so I started cuttings in January.  Some never started, many started and then just quit despite my handling them just as I did last year when almost all made trees.  Of some thirty odd cuttings I am going to have just seven to nine plants, most of which are the Joe Morle Paradiso.   My house is just not set up to start cuttings in the dead of winter.

When the UC Davis cuttings arrive they will not doubt take off like rockets now that Spring is on the way.  You can bet next year I will wait until the growing season is here before starting plants. 
Ox

Thats too bad Oxankle at least you know whats going on in your house and when to try it again.
In mean time i wish you the best in that regards and hope the season coming brings great weather for all of us.
Best Health

Ox really sorry to hear about your cuttings. I will tell you this I started rooting in July 09 and havent stoped yet. I tell you the best time to root cuttings in my area is between mid to late March all the way up until mid August.

Ox, sorry to hear that.
Many of us lose cutting for different reasons. I still have not learned when/how to water them after potting in soil in 1-quart pot so the roots would not rot, so now I am watering less frequently and a couple of plants were lost because of dried medium
Can you elaborate as to what could be the reason for your difficulty this year?

Ox,

I can relate to your problem! I had the same experience this winter. But I got lucky early in the process. I wised up and realised that it wasn't going to work and I sent over half of my cuttings to a friend. That way I/we had twice the rate of success. The best part was that my friend was willing to do the rooting for half of the surviving plants. A good deal for both of us! Thank goodness for my surrogate fig mother.

-Little John

OX - Please remind me in Sept for cuttings. Without Jon's weather like conditions, rooting would always have its share of surprises. I can only
do it 2 ways  -- in my own house using the aquarium with a controllable heater to be my green house or use an apartment boiler room & check
on the rooting progress once a week.

I find the same thing.  Last year I took my last cuttings, in late June, from my fridge and just sank them in the vegetable garden.  I had much better luck with them than with trying to root in late winter (of course I still jumped the gun and went for it again this winter....I should know better.....:)

I do have one stick in spaghnum moss pushing a 1/2 inch root already though (bagged/cupped 2-18-10)

I'm not sure which variety it is, though as I don't want to pull it out to id it before it pushes more root-lets

~Chills

Paully, Thanks.

LOL, Guys, I might have known that I was not the first to screw up a set of cuttings.  Nothing fatal; I have a garage full of figs wintering, but watching cuttings sprout is addictive. 
Ox

Ox I think I can say the same thing. Next year I will have a lot of dormant trees and won't have to worry about getting any started until after the weather warms. I must say it has been a learning lesson and a great pastime to what them grow. I have just started another batch that are just starting to show some roots. The weather here is good enough to move many of the started one outside in a protected area. I think and hope that winter has said good bye. "gene"