I bought some Fig Cuttings and received them today in the mail today.. They seemed to be dry but they did have some green buds on them. What is the first thing I need to do to  get them rooted? Should I put them in some water first, to get them good and hydrated? I know to wrap them in semi wet paper towel and put in a ziplock bag, but these seem to dry to do that right away.Any help will be greatly appreciated..:  )


Frank

Can you post close up pictures of them please?

yes, pix will help. most members will send cuttings with moist paper towel or news paper. but never seen dried up cuttings before.

Here's the cuttings after an hour in a cup of water! They were 21 days in route from Calheta, Madeira Island.. The newspapers they were wrapped in was dry..

These are Black Madeira Flat Big Black Fig....

They are fine. Just old gnarly wood.

Yup. They are fine. Quality cuttings with plenty of nodes.

you need 3-4 nodes on each cutting.
this way you can cut each to 2 and you have 8.

please send me 2 of these...:)

I've never tried rooting figs in the summer. Does it work?
I guess if pitangadiego thinks that they are fine then they should root...

looks fine to me too. the outside bark will look dry once unwrapped from the wet paper towel even when cutting was just taken from the tree. 

sas, yes. cutting can be rooted anytime. 

Rooting fresh non green cuttings in the summer is faster and more aggressive for me.

I got cuttings probably from the same guy earlier this year. Looked the same and ALL rooted.

PS..One of my flat black madiera has got a tiny fig on it. I am trying to force myself to pluck it off but so far it's not working.
Will it stunt the baby tree if I leave it alone?

jason, what's your method for green cuttings? i'm fat zero on green cuttings. i killed all my green cuttings for 2 yrs in a row.. i'm afraid to touch any green cutting at this point. any pointer will be great. 

Thank You Pete/Jason and all. That's great info. I usually wrap my cuttings with sphagnum moss that was soaked in water and plant them in black soil or composted cow manure during the winter. I've also used a mixture of 1/3 organic soil 1/3 Perlite and 1/3 peat moss. They come out alive toward the end of the winter early spring here in Texas. I've never used a bag to root figs. I usually water the cuttings occasionally during the winter and early spring, perhaps once per week to keep the soil moist. I've used moisture control soil by miracle grow and it also worked. The soil was never an easy thing to answer as I've tried to root fig cuttings the same way. One made it while the other one didn’t. Last winter someone gave me two branches planted in black soil. One succeeded and made a small tree while the other one looked dead. About a month later the other branch sprouted from beneath the soil and now is ok but it is still a slow grower compared to the other one. I must add that I do not try to root my figs in direct sun. I keep them on the patio in the shade.