I'm going to guess you peed in the far left bottle.  I'm going to guess one or more bottles are using club soda.  I'll guess that one or more bottles has rain water in them.

This is great, but the suspence is killing me. Dan come on dont make me start a new account for step 3 lol.

OKAY Dan...I am a newbie too, I am! And I have cuttings waiting in the wings, help me Dan, help me.  Gives a new definition to Water Torture!   Mercy, have mercy!!

Now how do we do we proceed and maintain that internal pipeline. Well it is very easy if you are rooting only a few cuttings as pictured. You just need to change the water often. For one or two cuttings....once a day is fine. For more cuttings, change the water more often. For many many cutting use an air pump (aquarium type for fish) to get air into that water. You can shake the bottle to get air/oxygen inside. An aerator on the kitchen faucet is good too. Just make sure that the water always has some oxygen in it and ALL WILL BE FINE.

Now we wait for those leaf stems to fall off BEFORE we proceed. Whenever we see one fall off.....we remove it from the water. When that stem falls off from the twig it will absorb oxygen out of the water....which we do not want it to do. Keeping those stems on the twig until they fall off helps in two significant ways. 1) It helps with the "chemical information system" that tells the twig it needs to form roots and leaves ASAP and 2) Those stems have a good supply of internal "energy reserves" that the twig will tap into "if needed" to form those new roots and leaves. DO NOT CUT THEM OFF......leave them on and use them to your advantage.

After those stems fall off. Put your cuttings (single cutting per bottle is best) into empty clear plastic soda or water bottles as was pictured.  Use bottles with a small sized mouth....see pictures. That is important for what will be happening inside of those bottles.

Now Clue Number 4............

Add water to the bottles to the level where about three inches of the twig will be under water (four inches is fine too.....not super critical). Use wire or bread wrap tries if necessary to hold the cutting in place if too short for the bottle. Pot those bottles where they will get some "direct morning sun" for a few hours a day. I put mine on an east facing window sill that is in my kitchen. They see direct and strong unfiltered sunlight for at least four hours per day.

The BEST time to take them is "just before or during a fig and leaf flush event".  (Fig trees in my area can flush three times a year.)  Look for wood that is lignified.

Thanks Karla,

The picture should be there now. There is a known "bug" that sometimes causes previously posted pictures to disappear.

Gene,  that picture is there now and it should be clearer what I meant.

Mak & theman, NEVER EVER apply heat to any "closed" rooting environment. Added heat simply IS NOT needed and that added heat often will cause cuttings to mold and rot. Don't add any heat.......

Udamman,

We have a mixed audience here. Some with lots of experience in rooting fig cuttings and some with very little. And yes that can make it more difficult. However, as I stated this is VERY EASY so don't get lost in all those details. I believe that I need to point them out because that is what often means the difference between success or failure.  It is good to see new people getting involved in these discussions and I for one want to encourage that.

In short....lignified means the "soft" flexible green new growth has turned into a stiffer "hard" wood. Re read what I posted in that link provide earlier to learn more about the fig leaf/flush cycle and if you still have questions after re- reading, ask your questions in that thread. Also you can do a search on the word "lignified" to find out what was previously written on that subject.  Look up in the upper right hand corner of this page and you will see a "SEARCH" link just above your forum name.
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To sum up this fig  rooting method thus far and with very few details...........

"Get you some summer cuttings. Take the leafy part off of the stems. Put them in water until the stems fall off. Then put them individually in water bottles on your window sill until the roots form."

were we not already using photosynthesis when we placed the bottles in the window to catch the morning sun? that is when this process happens just in the early part of the day. next thing i am no scientist but i would think that during this process there will be some type of gas forming so closing it would stop any oxogen from entering, no? did i also miss something? i thought we were changing the water every day but you say shake the bottle couple times a day. i'm confused about the water. you have to remember i'm not the sharp tack in the box. luke