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Hi all I thought I would share my proudly rooted cuttings. I took them from an actively growing tree I passed on a weekend away. This tree looked really healthy and had tonnes of unripe figs on it, so I took 4 cuttings off it.

Thanks to everyone on the forum, as I have been lurking, reading all that I can and decided to use techniques I read on here!

This is the tree 


I put the cuttings in the fridge for a week, and then used the back of a pair of scissors lightly to scrape away the brown bark until the green underneath could be seen. I then dipped them in a rooting homrone. I then put them in a cardboard shoebox with about 60% seed raising mix and 40% small perlite. I dampened the mix, and added a bit more water on 3 occasions. Today just over 2 weeks later this is what I was greeted with



Eventually I intend to put them in Tapla's 5-1-1 mix so today I mix up a mix with approximately 50% of the mix I rooted them in, 25% pine bark fines, 5% peat and 20% more large perlite, I also added a small amount of dolomitic lime. I hope this will prevent any shock when I transplant them into 5-1-1 later on.

And here is their new home!


 
This is actually the second time I have tried to root green cuttings. Way back in December I took 3 cuttings from a nice tree in the neighbourhood. I hadnt read much of these forums before doing this, and just dropped the bottom inch or so of the cutting into a pot of seed raising mix. Only now has my cutting started to even think about putting out a second leaf! About a month ago, after being in the soil for nearly 2 months there was a similar amount of roots as the plants a just potted today showing just how effective the shoebox technique actually is! I repotted this cutting over the weekend, and it has a fair few roots now, so lets hope it picks up pace a little from now on!

 
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Congratulations!  Hope you get lots of great figs.  That tree looks great, also.  What color are the ripe figs inside & out?
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Really nice work and good to get a report on fig propagation from down under. What kind of rooting hormone are you using?
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The figs on the tree although plentiful were sadly not ripe. I will be returning to Orange where the cutting was taken in April and I am hoping there will be some ripe figs on for examination (and tasting!)

This was the rooting hormone I used there was also a red version to choose from at the hardware store, but the purple version was listed as for softwood cuttings


Here are two more pictures of the donor tree, a little closer up, one looks like an entirely different tree, but it was actually a branch that had grown under the scrub, and is attached to the main tree, there are some unripe figs visible in both pics, although you have to look hard on the larger one!
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Great pics, and a very nice report...thank you...good luck with all your young fig trees.    :)
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Nice find and very nice work propagating those cuttings.
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I am amazed how fast these roots grow! I took this photo a couple of days ago, in total 6 days after transferring the cuttings into plastic cups.

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Nice! That is insane growth after only 6 days in cups...
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How big are those cups?
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I'd say it is already time to move those cuttings out of the clear cups to much larger 1gal pots! Great success.
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The cups were the small kids-party-sized variety, all that I could find in my house! One of the cuttings actually didnt even fit, which is why he went straight into a pot.

I potted these guys into pots over the weekend, and have a feeling they will be vigorous growers!
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Not fair, you are in Australia, the temperature there is HOT.  Counting to your favor! They look great, make sure to moit the cup to loose roots before repotting.  (they tend to stick to plastic, and break on repotting).  Good luck!
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Congratulations and best of luck with those.
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