Santa Cruz cuttings rooted and are growing nicely since recieving them March 12. I pulled the one in black pot and looked at roots and they are growing very well. I pulled other big plant out of cup that had nice roots also and put in 2 liter plastic container, humidity covers (2 liter bottles afixed on top of DQ cups )have been off for 24 hours now on these 2 and will stay off now, there in partial filtered sun. Usually i dont do this after 30 days uproot them and transplant them ,take dome off all at once, and put in window .
Santa Cruz Dark

Martin

Martin, those look great!  I hope I get mine to look that good.  They are coming along, but not quite as leafed out as yours.  Great job!

Nice job Martin. You might also want to cut the lower little branchlets off so it grows with more strength in its main standand until it is in full sun and photosynthesis is established. I have been doing this with mine, leaving only 1 or 2 branches so that the cutting's energy doesn't get used up too quick. Might just be a coincidence but it seems to help them grow healthier for me.

A very good sign. But defintely not out of the woods yet.
Where are the roots?
Speaking for myself, I would wait ~2 more weeks, before
staring counting THEM unhatched chickens (I mean figs).
Good luck...

Gorgi, you ask where are the roots.


 I pulled the one in black pot and looked at roots and they are growing very well. I pulled other big plant out of cup that had nice roots also and put in 2 liter plastic container.

Top of thread .

I did not want to fiddle with camera as i did not anticipate taking pictures of roots, next day i took pictures of plants (this morning) after waiting 24 hours waiting to see how they react without any dome.
I truly know they have long way to go but this type seems more agressive than most for some reason and on a serious note i think im abusing them like this because i have found out there the san pedro type which i did not really want but thats my fault as i took for granted it was a common fig type.
So if and when in future it produce a breba crop it better be darn good or i have room for 1 more fig to choose.
Gorgi ,
how are yours doing are they awake yet?

SteveNJ
Your suggestion of cutting away more than two shoots is reasonable. So, I believe that it will be more reasonable to cut shoots that will be below the top of the rooting medium at the time of transplanting from baggie to a cup. Such shoots take more energy at the node that could go to create roots. Any comments?
If my belief is OK then I have to redo two cuttings transferred to cup today which had green shoots at the mid-point in Perlite-Vermiculite mix.

Ottawan,

I wouldn't necessarily remove the shoots below the soil. If you have a good strong soot, it will grow out of the mix fine and I wouldn't want to get rid of it. If it is small, then maybe. Nothing hard and fast about cutting these away. I just suggested that if you have more than 2 shoots, you might want to remove the "extras". I do. This way all the growth energy is focused on the 1 or 2 you leave behind and on root development. This is based on what I have observed with my cuttings.

For example: on an Atreano cutting, there were 3 thin branches developing and a few new leaf buds starting to develop. All were equally gaining length but not thickness or leaf size. I cut away everything but one main shoot and now it is gaining length, thickness and the leaves are increasing in size. To me, I'd rather have 1 healthy main branch then a bunch of weaker ones. I've seen this and done the same with several and it seems to help them mature faster.

As far as cutting away shoots below the soil, I've done both - leaving them and cutting them off. I would base that decision on how many shoots there are, how strong they look, and how thick the roots are when you transplant it to rooting media. The goal being to thin it to the best shoots to conserve energy at this stage and get them to the point where they are generating energy via photosynthesis (this takes a little while to establish). Then it becomes only a matter of preference on what form you want the plant to grow in.

Martin,

I did miss that part where you had already noticed the roots.
I am glad that you did not disturb the roots because of me.
All I wanted to say, was that the leaves were still too small/tender
to take the cutting for granted. Now I think that they should be OK.
I do loose some cuttings in that stage, mostly because of either
too-little (they dry up) or too-much moisture (they rot).

My figs are still dormant in the garage and I plan to bring them out
in a week or so.

Your absolutely right , not out of the woods yet!
Recently i lost 1 of the VDBs and the other seems to be going the same route.
These are the largest sticks i have propagated to date and hope to get at least 1 to make it to see what a san pedro class type fig does in my climate although i dont have high hopes for that type here.

I took Santa Cruz out of black pot where it originally rooted in mostly perlite with some upm mixed in . and put into pot with more upm mix than perlite.
On another note my 2nd VDB that had small roots and leaves died as well  but thats ok i have mother plant coming out of dormany little by little.

Santa Cruz being transfered to less perlite and more potting soil mix.

I transplanted 1 santa cruz rooted stick out of perlite mix into a potting mix with less perlite.

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Marty,
Outstanding work. Looks like a winner to me. I hope that you get some nice Breba figs. Even thou it's a San Pedro type fig.

Jazz, yes it will be interesting to see if i even get a breba crop to ripen never had 1 hear on any tree to ripen and taste.
Time will tell on this one .

Here is picture of larger of the 2 santa cruz dark plants the one with the side shoots, i never did cut them off im a little hardheaded sometimes. The smaller S.C.  was never shown in this thread as i had cut a stick in half and propagated it. Other slightly smaller plant of the 2 shown early in thread being propagated was sent out and resides in Missouri. Curious now as to how this san pedro will do in my climate giving breba figs only as my other regular class figs breba crop drops due to weather mostly and by me pinching them for main crop to do well. My best hope senario would be to get a slightly delayed breaba crop that taste good and then main crop from regular fig plants but that might be hopeing to much time will tell next year . I give these 2 more full growing seasons after this year to see what happens then discard if not happy with plants.

Lookin better than good Martin!

Update 19 days later figs have grown fast on this plant although the main crop need fig wasp i let both plants go through there cycle this season. Hopefully next season i get a treat by getting a breba crop that taste decent comes before other regular figs that would be nice. Hopefully the san pedro type fig plant will hold the breba crop in our cold spring nights as im not going to move these once there out on patio for the season ive decided.

Congrats Martin for all the TLC. Let us know how great they taste & flavour.