I am new to Fig trees. I am located in NJ zone 6b. This year I planted two 5 year old fig trees and I will see how they do. I don't know the varieties, one white and one brown. I am also attempting to grow trees from cuttings. My wifes grandparents have many fig trees on thier property. He was trimming them down so he can wrap them. He has even gone as far as to build a house for some of them... He gave me a bunch of the cuttings. From this site and other information on the web. I am trying a few different methods to root them. I am trying the baggie method with and without roottone. I know it doesn't seem to popular, but I could not find any liquid versions and I am curious to see if it works. I planted some in vermiculite with and without rootone and some in dirt and some peetmoss with and without roottone. After all that I took a few cutting and just put them in a container of water. My question is do I need to put a baggie or something over the cutting in the water or can I just leave them in there and see if roots show?
My second question is related to the other cuttings. The cuttings in pots I wrapped in plastic to keep in humidity. Do really need to be air tight? I just made a frame with skewers and wrapped it in saran wrap. Do they need to be kept at a perfect 70? I am keeping them upstairs which is warmer. Our heat goes down to the lower 62-64 at night and when we are not home, but it would be a warmer upstairs. I am also keeping everthing and especially the baggies near our heat source, which is water baseboards, so it doesn't get really hot, but it will stay warmer. Is this ok?