Was thinking I may just leave all those cuttings in the container for awhile and see what happens.  Don't reckon anybody ever did that on purpose.  Had a moment of imagination where all of them fused together and made a big gnarly looking fig bush.

There are a few traditional cuttings being done along with these.  They were also waxed ends and no humidity covers.  They are watered along with the single nodes in like manner.  Looks like they are starting to bud swell some but noticeable shrinking of their tops.   

Ok, a mixed gnarled tree... that is quite the idea! I like it, personally I'd go with that.  I would let the root mass completely intertwine then gingerly move the bunch into a large pot.

You could start a while new thread. ..  "mix gnarled tree"  lol

Charlie,
If you do find the time and are willing to make an effort to separate them, do it ASAP.
Otherwise it will become impossible and you will regret.
I had multiple cuttings this close but all were upright.
It was impossible to separate the, so I cut roots with knife.
They were all shocked and the growth was stunned for the rest of the season.
Good luck and keep up great work
Damir

Meet some of the newcomers along with a shocking Magnolia update...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the ceiling fan out of action a small fan was set into the room across the hall to blow cool air in, helps much.  Without air directly hitting the bowls, watering has been cut to once daily.  Probably a blessing the fan quit.  

Have been waiting on two varieties, Petite Negri budswell today and LSU Gold budswell a couple days ago, out of the 11/01/14 bunch to say I have at least one of every variety of that group budding or already leafing.  A few as you can see from the pics are from the 11/16/14 bunch and several more of them are budding.

The bowls started out with varieties lined up together, now they are all mixed up.  The left side of the room being furthest from the light is where slowpokes are put while ones that show budswell are moved to the center/right of the room for more light.

Magnolia...have five of them leafing out nicely but the one above is the fullest so far.  If you look close at it, lower left you will see some nice roots crawling across the surface.  

In another week or three we should have a nice green carpet. :)

Edit:  Forgot to say, the bowl group of 11/16 is a much more coarse and light mix than 11/1.  I took what super soil and worm castings mix I had left and mixed it in a wheelbarrow full of mix that was used for planting in the wire pots during summer.  It was peat, generic potting soil with composted cow manure, some old compost I have sitting around, couple hands full of pelletized limestone and several pounds of crushed oyster shell. 

Sell them on ebay in the Spring when each one is ready to be up potted from a 12 or 16 oz cup.  You can retire in 6 months.  I'd buy some.

No update for 4 days, Charlie you must be overwhelmed with fig duty. 

I think when Bob said sell them on eBay he went into shock.

Sorry been swamped at work doing inventory after closing.  You guys are a hoot haha!

Well ok an update.  Nothing has died that swelled a bud.  Many of the ones from 11/1 which were thought to be duds are starting to show life. I think it's going to turn out very well at this rate.  

One stubborn Atreano refuses to keep more than one leaf.  It's the largest single leaf of all the Atreano.  Two leaves seem to have just fallen off.  Maybe it was the mouse.  Oh ya'll don't know about the mouse event.

There was a mouse in the figdom.  It got stuck between some wood and a flying steel spring.  No more mouse in the figdom.  The bright room has officially changed its name to the figdom.

None of the Celeste without wax are showing yet Bob.  Wait... I think I do see a bit of green.  Tomorrow will tell better.  

The last bunch of bowls done on 11/23 where the cuttings were completely buried under approx. a quarter inch of mix... A couple of Unk Cirini are poking up as well as one RdB and one Chicago Hardy.

Some other members now have a few single node cuttings.  I realize not everyone has the heart to chop their cuttings up into one eye wonders so I sent them ready made. Looking forward to their reports.
 

  

Four more of this one... 

 

:)

Charlie
Just loving this thread and the wonderful photos.. Can't wait to see a Dominick in there.
Keep them coming

Thanks Coop I plan to do some this weekend.    

As I said before Charlie very inspiring. When cutting my twigs down to 3 node sections I ended up with a few one and two node guys I am going to try out. Some green wood some hard wood. I don't have wax of any sort but will give it my all.

Doesn't look like wax is necessary, at least on this one.  Six of ten unwaxed Gloria's Celeste with bud swell this morning.  Here's a couple of them...

 

That's among the fastest of all varieties showing bud swell.  Waxed BM, CdDG, CdDB and Mead started on the same day are also showing good bud swell.  Wax on, wax off?  Guess it doesn't matter. Sure save a lot of time not waxing.   

Are any of the waxed Celeste showing bud swell? 

Still loving your thread Charlie, I'm getting anxious waiting to catch up with you.  I haven't looked at the unknown Carini from Frank for a few days, I suspect they be starting swell now or in the next couple days. 

Keep the pics coming! 

This is an amazing thread Charlie, truly amazing.

Thanks Wayne

Scott there are no waxed Celeste. Here's Frank's Cirini leafing...

 

A few others...

 

 

Had to toss this one in for kicks.  A multi-node Deanna I had among the slow pokes. It's one of a few multi-nodes that had too close of spacing to cut into singles or so was my thinking at the time.  Goes to show they don't always sprout where we may think they ought to.  

   

Some views of the figdom...

 

 

 

The slow poke group in bowls.  Cups are 11/29/14 group...

 
    

Great Job Charlie ! You sure have showed me something! Thanks for all the post and photos! :)

Added four new varieties today, I-258, Dominick Heirloom Italian, Unk Peachy and Unk Orangeburg Purple, with a bit of something different.  I notice the emerging stem has to curve in order to straighten up.  I don't really like that for some reason and want them to start off straight and grow straight up from the start.  So today's batch were all set in at an angle.  This also sets the lower part of the cutting considerably deeper.  More stem can be left on below the node and may help rooting.  May not?  Don't know.  Should add some safety margin if a watering happened to be missed, versus cuttings buried shallow horizontal.

 

 

A small flour scoop was used to fill the cups along one side and lightly press an angled wall for the cutting to lean on, then filled to the top, leveled and watered.  Some nodes are barely exposed and some are barely covered after a little settling from watering.   
 

Hmm I wonder where those came from.... must be Fig Saturday at the post office.

Good idea! I will try it, I like my plants to grow strait also

Nice addition to your ever growing collection and thanks for the update, Charlie.

You are d MAN Charlie. Congrats. I have had minimal success with it but would try it this season. Do
keep us posted on any new do's and don'ts. Thanks for all the info.