"pee" five times in single post.  Gotta be some kinda record?

Urine it to win it...

thanks guys. if pee is what works, that'swhat i'll do. must be some fertilizing effect there, but not one i'd use on food crops.

i think i'll try this again this yr. last time i tried it, the cutting didn't do anything. might be the clay soil we have here. it's like a water bag. 

pete, i think the kind advice above is correct. planting in late fall for spring growth is the way to go, if you are patient.

i have the opposite problem,. dead sterile sand with no earth worms for miles, si i'm doing what alan says. i've been saving up used potting soil
for 6 months. now i'm adding it into the soil  before planting anything. i usedto just scatter it randomly. now i'm concentrating it.

Hi Susie,

I have some cuttings that are doing the same thing.  They're in a shady spot in my yard in a big container with some cheap potting mix.  Last couple of weeks they started to wake up.  I keep them wet every few days.  No humidity dome.  Just cuttings in a pot.  You're right.  It does work.

hiya, joe. what i'm curious about is why noone talks about this. i've seen a zillion posts about high tech rooting, but none about this. 

yet, a bunch of people who posted here say they've done this.

if this method is common, why isn't it mentioned? isit not sexy enow?

I think everybody does their best to improve on methods because the cost of some of the cuttings are so far up there. If I spent $50 on 3 cuttings I would think twice about just poking them in the ground.

I figured this out last year because all my indoor "high tech" areas were full so I took the crappy looking cheap cuttings out and poked them in the ground. Bingo, they all grew and the inside ones had a mortality rate.

Same here. All the snips and piece my dogs chewed off I've been sticking in the ground and they all took.  Even little half dead twigs that I removed, I stuck in the ground and they take.    For me, this puts the fun back in figs

$50 for 3 cuttings? How about this one that went yesterday?  http://www.ebay.com/itm/JOLLY-TIGER-FIG-TREE-CUTTINGS-/161266725264?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item258c3ef190   Think the winner is going to just stick them in the ground?

ed, i get the winter boredom thing, but thatearly start isn't a problem when they leaf out at the exact same time as  the older trees are breaking dormancy.

i have to agree with soni. this is more fun for me., as opposed to all the fussing. when i grow any crop, the idea is max yield with minimum effort. this fits the bill.

tami,i don't have cost problems as i plant only unknowns, as they never have fmv. the high priced spread always does. i just prefer not eating diseased fruit n i can't afford the designer figs anyway.  i defy anyone to show me yummier figs than i already have. i have eaten my genova, HC n black triana, all purchased as clean trees or tissue cultures.

girls just wanna have fun.

I agree!  Girls just want to have fun!  I roll my eyes when members post the exact temperature, humidity, etc.  Yawn!  I love the old ways that work with no stress, no mold, no fungus gnats.  None of that!  Just little trees growing in ground as God would have it.

I do like to experiment, but if this requires measurements..... fagitaboudit!!

I will say that my cutting now rooting the rogue way in water has no roots sprouting on the window side of the glass.  Roots seem to like dark places, like Martin.  They like the dark side!

Suzi

$205???? A fool and their money!!!!

good to know, suzi. by the way, gene daniels  asked me about help in transplanting trees. he had you n me confused.
perhaps you could give him a hand?

tami, i'm still waiting for proof that expensive figs taste better. i just don't believe it.