Are larger cuttings just as easy to root as smaller ones.  I recieved a huge cutting that looks more like fire wood than a fig cutting.  So I am wondering if anyone can give me some pointers.

I have had good success with thicker cuttings the width of my index finger. Particularly where I have just simply stuck them in the ground the old fashioned way. I don't know about 'fire wood' though.

2" no problem.

Firewood would be 30 or 40 centimeters long.
If you want and have space, cut it into 2 cuttings .
If you don't want, I would arrange to have more than the half of the unique cutting buried in the ground/dirt ... Is your pot deep or high enough ?
By the way, how will you root it ? In a plastic bag ? ... Still I think it will need more root to sustain the bigger amount of wood ...

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i guess it all depends on how you root them. only thing i really care about is that a cutting has at least 3 nodes. 

If you can, a larger cutting, 3-8 feet long can just be buried in the ground and it will root as long as it's warm enough.  I have rooted up to 3 inch cuttings.

It depends more on how old the wood is.  Older wood will root easily but wood much older than 3 years may not produce shoots as easily.  I've had 3 year old wood that rooted and never produced shoots.  When I cut out the center branches from my in-ground Hardy Chicago the bases are 3+ years old but I left some younger wood at the top.  I'm rooting them in tall plastic laundry hampers with lots of open space on the sides with added drainage holes and plastic bags inside with drainage holes.  The plastic bags will sit on some perlite so they can drain easily.

See this thread  http://www.figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/jons-bag-method-writ-large-6378923

The advantage to this is that the tree will think it's 3 years old and will have a better chance of bearing fruit more quickly.

bob, i heard preferred cuttings are a yr to two yr old growth. so in you situation, 3 yr old cutting never put on a top?

I've had a 5 year old tree get all of its branches torn off and put out shoots (top growth as you say) from 4 yr old wood but I've also had 18" long cuttings from 3 yr old wood put out lots of roots and get fertilized but after 2 summers never put out top growth.

figs are funny things aren't they? Some root super easy, other are like saving private Ryan. But in the end, most fig cuttings will root given the right opportunity, its like they long to reproduce or something.

Thanks for the input on this from everyone.  I will keep you posted if I am sucessful.  I usually put my cuttings into potting bags.  I have had about 85% sucess rate.  I had a lower rate because we had rain for week non stop and I lost some of them do to being too damp.  Other than that most root and sprout with a problem.

Kevin

I just stuck 2 large (one yard each) cuttings in the ground directly. That's what we used to do in Greece when I was little, I remember.
We'll see how it goes here in Los Angeles, I'll keep you guys posted