HELLO ALL AS A NEWCOMER TO THE FIG WORLD I HAD A GREAT TIME THIS WINTER/SPRING TESTING OUT EVERYONES METHODS. WITH 15 DIFFERENT VARIETIES I TRIED ALL ROOTING METHODS WITH VARIED SUCCESS. OVER ALL THE METHOD WITH 100% SUCCESS WAS IN WATER. I USED A 40 WATT LIGHT BULB INSIDE A STORAGE BIN FOR AN EXTRA HEAT SOURCE TO ADD HUMIDITY. I THEN PLACED VARIOUS CUTTINGS IDENTIFIED BY SHARPIE MARKER 1/3 SUBMERGED IN A 16OZ CUP OF WATER. DIFFERENT CUTTINGS ROOTED AT DIFFERENT RATES, HOWEVER ALL ROOTED PERFECTLY WITH ZERO MOLD ISSUES! I TRIED THE SAME METHOD OUTSIDE THE STORAGE BINS WITH SUCCESS ALSO BUT THE ADDED HUMIDITY OF THE STORAGE BIN WITH THE LIGHT BULB WAS DRASTICALLY MORE EFFECTIVE.

Nice, did you change the water at all? I did some soaking in glasses with a bag over the tops but did not wait for roots and changed the water daily, it really seemed to help. Also did you have any problems transferring to potting mix? Conventional wisdom is that the roots have to adapt to their new conditions before resuming growth.

I changed the water about once a week and planted into coarse perilite mixed with vermiculite until rooting really took off. Im sure its not the fastest method of rooting but if I had a really rare or hard to get cutting i would use  it because 100% success and no mold. Worked 100% on desert king, negronne,ras latte, black mission, md berry, genoa white,hardy chicago, sals, sicilian red, dark portugese, italian everbearing, vista, mars vs black, and sorbello red.

When I kept my bins completely closed and the humidity stayed around 100%, roots appeared on a few above the soil line.

I had an above average long Italian Honey cutting that had roots appear. I snipped the cutting in half. Planted it in a cup and in 3 weeks I transferred to a 1 gal. container. Now I have 2 and the original I cut is just about to be potted up.

The air was saturated enough to have roots form.

All the Cuttings from Point Loma ( Fico preto, Branca and Abrebreira) have roots above the soil line and an inch or so higher.

Next year I am thinking of doing all my cuttings in the bin with high humidity. It's happened without even trying.

I tried rooting in water this year, but only with two varieties, the UCR 291, it really did well, the celeste I'm about ready to give up on, her sister is pushing out branches and in a one gallon and this one looks like its about to rot.  I put them in a jar with water about 1/4 of the way up in a humidity dome and on a heating mat.  I don't know if it is just the cutting itself or what, but I can't say if it's good or not, the italians around here swear by it so it must work well.

I have been doing alright rooting directly in good quality soil (outside in the summer; in pots inside this winter), about 50-70% success (sometimes 100% success if the variety is easy to root).

I have now rooted two batches of cuttings (mixed varieties) with 100% success.

I just keep the cuttings in glass jars with water covering all but the top inch of so on top of the refrigerator.  I changed the water about every 3 or 4 days or anytime it started to look funky.

This seems to be a very easy and so far very successful method.

I started using this after reading Dominick's post on water rooting.

Our kids also like it because they can easily see what is happening.  I like that too, as in soil it drives you crazy wondering if anything was happening or if you were just wasting time and money.

The water method works for me.

Best wishes to all.

John