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Leafs and no Roots

I have five cuttings that are with leaves but no roots yet
What can I do?
Do I remove the leafs as they show up or just leave things as they are

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Let them be. Just make sure that there is sufficient humidity. The leaves provide extra area for moisture to be lost, otherwise. Be patient.

More bottom heat.

Be careful with direct bottom heat.  It will dry out your soil and kill the roots if too hot.  I don't recommend it at all.  I don't think there is ever a reason to really use bottom heat, personally.

Ask me how I know ....


Mario
They look very healthy. Just wait and be careful in watering. With this kind of leaves, there has to be some roots in the soil not reached out to the outer limits yet.
I killed a plant with similarly erect 5 leaves with (I guess) over-watering. That plant had even good beautiful white roots. When I was potting it from baggie, I used PRO-MAX without adding additional Perlite because the Perlite bag was in the garage with minus 18C cold so decided to forget about additional Perlite. Just one of the watering made the 32 oz pot look wet. Within 48 hrs the leaves started drooping and then dead within a few days. Now I have decided to keep the new plants in 16oz pots for much longer until good mass of roots.

Ciao Marjo,  LEAVE THEM BE THE WAY THEY ARE.  There is likely some root development, They look wonderful.  I have some Sal's Corleones rooting doing this exact same thing.  They are real buggers to root I find.  

Thanks Guy's and Gal's

This Morning before I left the house for work I went and cut the bigger
leafs out, it started to drip the milky sap out I guess I'm just a little to impatience

I just didn't want to see them run out of energy before roots showed

My logic is tat less leafs more power for the roots

Will just have to see How much damage I did in the next few days

Thanks everyone for the input


Marjo
The biggest leaf was probably closed to giving the plant 'Return On Investment' to the plant body. Your plants look healthy with good chance of rooting and appears to be taking nutrition from the rooting medium. Wait and watch (just don't over-water). 

Ciao marjo, leaves put some energy back into the plant. Sometimes just cut a leaf in half. 

It Brook my heart to cut the leafs but at that minute I was sure I was doing the right thing

It was after I got to work that I started to daught what I add done

Live and learn I just have to work a little harder on my patience

This is what they look like now I will keep a picture record if they make it

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Hi Marjo,
if it were me in that barbers chair i would not have tipped you.  ; )
Ah they will probably be ok in time, if it were me i would not give them any more crewcuts.
Let us know how they do .

Mario, figs are like a common weed, incredibly resilient - hopefully nobody hates me for comparing figs to weeds! Remember, they are in the same family as mulberries, and if you know mulberries, you know they can grow like kudzu, and are almost as hard to kill off. 

Just hang tight - remember, these plants grow all by themselves out in the real world sometimes with terrible conditions, all without the help of humans.  With this in mind, if you just provide conditions close to "real world", you shouldn't really need to touch a lot, or adjust much.  If you are seeing healthy growth on top, leave it be.  This is a good thing.  It's showing something healthy.  If the cutting needs to slow down, the cutting will sacrifice the leaf, and it will fall off.  It happens sometimes.

It is possible to love something to death, or care something to death.  Sometimes the most powerful treatment is letting nature carry its course.

Good words Satelitehead indeed.
I read as much as possible on both forums and on the web in past and present.
What i have noticed is there can be a very technical end to rooting scion and folks can spend a ton of money on the process but thats there choice. Like you said they can be like a weed. Some scion root easily and some scion from same bunch just refuse, personally its no big deal the strong survive and thats what i would want as a plant . In short i rather root a scion say 6 to 9 inches than one 2 inches with 1 node but thats just me. Last season UcDavis send me only the santa cruz dark scion , big long sticks near a foot long and probably could have cut those few sticks and made more but i choose not they rooted and grew excellent for me with a lot of small figs by seasons end. This year is hopeful and i hope they taste good to me or they go as its a breba only i have no fig wasp for second crop.
Thats just me.  ; )

No Tip hey Martin

I wouldn't make it as a barber is that what your saying

Like Jason said it best to let nature takes its course but humans never learned to do that

Its human nature to medal with everything and sometimes its for that best

I guess in my case I got a little over zealous

I will post pictures when new leafs show again

Thanks Guys 

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