Less than two weeks and I got my first roots on one of the large tree cuttings! This is the soonest I have ever had roots appear in my very limited experience. Thanks for the opportunity Chris

Good job Daramus ! How did you get it to root? Baggie, perlite,spagnoum, please elaborate If you can! Thanks for sharing!

I used a plastic shoe box with a ProMix and perlite mix, about 60/40 I would guess. I open the shoe box every day just because I like checking things often to look for mold. Honestly I am just impatient and like to monitor progress. :)

Lol. As impatient as the rest of us Daramus. I check them every day too,sometimes way more than once.

Thats great Daramus!  This is my first year rooting as well, I used long fiber sphagnum moss soaked and rang out. Placed the moss and cuttings in a plastic box with a thermometer / humdistar combo. Placed the box in my garage green house in an area that hovers around 80 F.

Works great so far.

Took a walk around the park today and here are a few pics of the park and the fig trees trying to come alive! Enjoy!

you should visit again and see if the tree make breba figs ?

Hey Austin. No Breba figs this year. All the new buds were killed by a late two day freeze this spring and all the brebas were killed ( on the inground and unprotected trees)! I am due for a visit though and update pics. Thanks for reminding me . Could be tomorrow morning.

It's been a while since I visited my Lenora park friend so this morning was the perfect chance to take a ride to the park and shoot a few pics of the tree with figs if any, for an update. As I usually do,I parked about a half a mile away from where the tree stands and started walking with a slow pace at first until I got to a point where it was clearly visible to me in a distance . From far away it looked dry and dead . I stopped on my tracks at first and snapped a few photos of the surrounding area( it was such a beautiful morning,high 60s low humidity )and then took off with a faster ,longer stride! I felt nervous and afraid that my fig bud had not made it. The closer I got the more I could see green growth between the dead and dried up limbs. My heart fell back in its place and when I finally got next to it.... I can't describe how I felt when I saw all those figlets . Now I understand what the old men I had met this past winter ment when he said that for years some ladies he knew would come and pick the figs to eat and make all kinds of preserves and stuff. If it has hundreds of figs on it now that it is half dead! I can only imagine what it would look like in it prime! The grass around the base looks like was sprayed with round up and that could very well be affecting the trees growth as well and no pruning of the dead limbs has been done. I really think that a good hair cut will bring it back to life and looking fine again . The second tree in the background looks way worst. Only a few new shoots and way less figs growing. I will try to tell the story with my photos so use your imagination and enjoy.
Update with ripe fruit to follow in a few weeks to determine variety! NOT a Celeste in my opinion but only time will tell.
Thanks for reading.

Keep up the good work Chris....thanks for sharing the pictures and story

Wow Chris that one photo with all the dead stuff at the bottom of the tree was scarey.  Makes you wonder how the tree makes it.   I notice that the wind blew  off  a little branch onto your windshield.   I know that you probably can do something with that.   Keep us posted.  I love picture storys.  Your bud, Joyce