I was trying to move some cuttings from a quart bag to  cups today and noticed how many times I cringed at seeing roots getting disturbed then I remembered last winter I had a few shoe boxes full of cuttings that kinda got away from me so I just left them in and took off the lid kept them watered untill it was warm enough to pot them up.

So this year I am going to put 3 cuttings of the same variety in a quart bag with sphagnum when they root I'll just turn the bag into a pot by cutting off the top and poking a couple of holes in the bottom and then pot them up when the weather warms.

I hear you Jim, nicking those new roots is always nail-biter for me too. I'm using the Jon New Bag method now and had not moved anything to pots yet. I'll report back with what I learn.

I just transported several cuttings from bags to gallon pots as carefully as I could.  I'm hoping for growth.  I have no way of knowing if I damaged the roots or not.  I got way more resistance than I thought I would pulling the bag up so now I'm trying to keep the rooting material intact, opening the bottom and side and rolling it onto soil in a pot laid on its side and tilted up slightly.  With perlite this doesn't work so well but with potting soil and long fiber spagnum it works much better.  I doubt I'd ever use perlite again except to aerate potting soil.

Yeah I hate messing with those tender roots and sphagnum does seem to protect them better the roots weave through it.

Good luck Vince on potting them up

Last winter when I let some go way too long in the shoe box I just let them keep on rooting by the time I got them planted up the roots were tough and I wasn't worried about damaging them I just potted up and they kept on growing