I lost my last Panachee cutting to mold today :(
I got 4 cuttings through a different forum. They looked fresh when received but as soon as I started the rooting process, the horror started!  I tried to root 1 via a beggie method, 1 in the peat moss (brown), 1 in the moss (green), 1 directly in a perlite/vermiculate cup.  All rotted away at different times. The one in the cup (quite dry, actually) was covered by mold underneath the surface. I tried to scrub with soap, treat with chlorine, etc., nothing helped for more that 2 days.
It seems you cannot win the mold war...
At the same time, the other 20 or so cuttings were happily growing so the mold was inside the wood already from the very beginning.

Why has this happened? The only explanation I came up with was a different climate (temp/humidity) where the mother tree was growing. 

Have you noticed this also? That some cuttings cannot be saved no matter what you do?

Oh, anybody is willing to share 2-3 Panachee cuttings? Please PM me. Thanks!

Sorry about your cuttings.  I agree, I had a cutting mold on me and nothing worked....not bleach, disinfectant wipes, not even my standby peroxide.  Eventually I cut off the moldy part and that was the only treatment that saved the cutting.  Right now I have a Battaglia Green cutting that I transplanted into a 1 gallon nursey pot last weekend.  The day after it looked terrible.  I've tried more water, misting, cup over the top to maintain humidity and nothing seems to help.  I'm done with my intervention, I took the cup off since it isn't getting better with it on.  It survives now or it doesn't.  I have other of the same cuttings to try again with.

Steve, every time I see your screen name, I think of Octomom.  Wow!  Wonder if she could grow 8 fig cuttings!

Suzi

mold... i think... best solution is to cut out the part that does not get rid of them after 1st or 2nd try with bleach or h2o2 solution. i found that keeping the baggie just moist and airing out, that means wrapping the paper towel everyday, helps a great deal. but if it's "set" into the cutting, it won't go away. physan20 is another solution. i never had to use the bottle i have.

one batch of cuttings i got this winter had serious mold issue. the cuttings were very fresh, but they were wrapped in very wet papers. i think during the transit, the weather was cold enough, they were frozen, and thawed. seems like mold and rot set in during that time and once i started rooting them, they stared massive mold and i just could not control it. sooner after the mold, rot set in, and the barks stared to peel off. i trashed the whole batch.

Panacea cuttings i got from jon during the winter were great. after processing, i had 10 cuttings. i kept three and sent rest to two members. out of 3, one was stuck into 1 gal pot, two were callused, and put into cups. one of the cutting in the cups made it and moved into a 1 gal. other two didn't make it.

Yeah, I tried to cut off the bad parts a few times but you can do it only as much.
What also amazes me is that a wild local fig can grow under any possible conditions with 100% success rate, you can put a cutting upside down in the ground and it will grow no matter what. They laugh at mold. It seems we do smth against the Nature laws since our desirable cuttings dont want to grow that well.

during the spring rooting, i don't concern myself too much with mold. usually, it takes few weeks in the baggies, few weeks in the cups, and they are in 1 gal outside. i usually just wipe the mold away with paper towel along the way and move them along as fast as possible. once outside with fresh air and sun, mold is no longer an issue.

Pete, I think you are talking about not very dense hairy grayish mold that grows sometimes here and there. It happens and you can wipe it out.
In my case the mold came as some white cover, almost like mushrooms, and from inside. Wiping our this creature is not possible with any common tools and there is no time for the cutting to survive it.
I think disinfecting the stick in a nuclear reactor for a week might help though !

Suzi,

No, not octomom, but it was a famous person from the northeast.  If I had cuttings to give away I'd run a contest to see who could guess the meaning of my screen name.