When I tried transplanting my cuttings from cups, I was ending up with broken roots, no soil and dying figs.  Well since I'm Greek, which to my wife means cheap, lazy and always looking to save time. I came up with a method of transferring my figs from cups to pots with out the fuss or muss or broken roots.   Using a broken plastic nursery pot, I made thin sided transfer paddles which do not cut the roots. I 'rough measured' (Greek for eye ball measuring), I scissor cut down the sides of the black nursery pot into a paddle shape (rounding the bottom edges- see pics). Once I'd made my paddles, it was easy then to slide the paddles down the sides of the cutting cup to help hold the soil around the cutting in place. I then place my hand over the top (making a gap with my fingers around the cutting) holding the soil in place as I  turn the cup upside down- sliding from the cup in a single motion, the paddles, dirt and cutting which I flip upright and set on top of a half filled nursery pot. With paddles clenched around the cutting, I then pack soil around both the cutting, soil and paddles to finished height, and when satisfied, I then pull out the paddles, leaving a perfectly potted and undamaged cutting.  The pictures should explain everything.  Happy Figging!

I transplant when it has good roots. I just lift it from the rooting plant, place it in a 1-gallon pot and put soil around it and water it. It has always worked.
Compare the laziness.

You must have some Greek in you then. LOL.

Looks like a foreceps delivery to me! Anything to keep the figlets happy!

Lol, Jodi!! My thoughts exactly!

Hey, whatevercworks "to keep our figs happy!"

Noel, good idea!! I love creativity!!

@ NoelG_123
that is alot of work... are you sure your Greek?
i let plants get root bound and walk out of the pot on their own.
the down side to it is i get many bonsai figs. lol  

If by your wife's definition that greek is cheap, lazy and always find ways to save time and you do all the above, I wonder what you'll be doing when you are not lazy.

And i thought this thread was going to be about fig punishment.....

The figs keep me distracted, however if she had her way, my bride would prefer I didn't do my transplanting on the dinner table and washed the dishes once in a while (that would be something to see). I only seem lazy. In reality my brain works overtime and my hats off to all Greeks. My Grandpa 'Anjakos' was the hardest working man alive. It seems however that I didn't go down that road.

Even I'm too lazy to do all that.  ;)
I let them get just about rootbound in the clear cup.  Then, gently massage the cup all the way around to loosen the roots from the sides of the cup.  Turn upside down, supporting the trunk and gently shake until it slides out.  If there are enough roots to 'hug' the soil ball, there will be very little root disturbance, if any.  Just 'plug' it in the new pot of half-filled soil then back fill.

That's ingenious but I would only fill the new pot with an inch or 2 of soil and bury as much of the fig wood as I can.  That way if there's a sudden cold snap the buried wood will survive and re-grow.  Every time I up pot I bury as much wood as I can.