thanks to a generous forum member, caprifig rooting has begun. i'm not sure what to do with ones with mamme already on, so i just stuck them into the pot along with my 10 gal trees. i had to root prune my 10 gal this yr, and that section of the pot has no roots from old tree. i'm hoping a lot.
there was a cutting that had all the mamme dropped during the shipping, so that one has gone into baggie with paper towel for normal rooting in hope that i'll have a caprifig tree going by next yr.
i'll probably has to ask for another branch with mamme next yr to populate the tree, unless i get really lucky and the 3 cuttings i made will root, and by some luck wasp will survive till the fall and take resident in possible mamme on the new caprifigs.. lol lot of wishful thinking in this post.