Very unorthodox! Not recommended and probably would not work in most areas. It works for me so I have no choice but to keep on keeping on.

It started about 2 years ago when I had several newly grafted mango trees and a had to find immediate shelter to keep them alive during a cold front moving in. So being the procrastinator that I am since retirement, I had very little time to build a shelter(4+ hours). This is embarrising but worth a few laughs, my makeshift greenhouse.

 
It's okay to laugh, but it saved all my mango trees and now they are large enough to withstand mild frosts of an hour or two. So being the lazy person that I have become, I decided not to tear it down, justified by using it for rooting cuttings, please understand that after losing dozens, maybe hundreds of cuttings from mold, gnats, rot, etc... I only root in one gallon pots, at least 60% pine bark fines and the rest...potting soil/peat, perlite, mulch/compost. I root cuttings no matter what the outside temps are and will give some information with later photos.

Many of these trees were rooted during the months of March-November, no altering of the temperatures since all my cutting are rooting outside in my .......greenhouse/shack?? These are from March-November 2013, several were rooted Nov. 2013-mar. 2014(without heat), some are from 2012. All are 3 gallon or larger.


 
 
 
Several of the trees are starting to wake up, yes even in South Florida fig trees take a short nap.

Now, inside the errrrrrrr greenhouse I have cuttings in different stages of growth. Some were started in December 2014, Jan 2015, Feb 2015 and the cuttings without leaves are recently potted in March. Again, we had nights as low as 38 degrees and most nights were in the 40-65 range. Daytime temps were between 50-85 degrees. No heat was provided until one night that reached 31 and I put the grill in the enclosure and stoked up some briquettes and was able to manage a temp of 41. Crazy right, but it worked for me. Here are some of the results so far, and only a handful of cuttings were lost but I knew ahead of time I would lose them, very unhealthy. Take a look at the crude setup.


 
 
 
 
 
   
Not a pretty setup but the cuttings seem like to the environment. The CdDG are aggressive growers...14" and  2 at 12". What I am trying to impress upon growers is find YOUR method of rooting, what works for you is the best method. With all my other fruit trees and plants, I do not have time to mess around. These cuttings stay in the one gallon pots until November or maybe until next year. No messing around and no re-potting. Well, I guess I need to plan for tomorrow, let's see...work on mangoes, avocados, plums, peaches, persimmons, guava, longans, lychees, carambolas, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, mulberries, lemons, rio de grande cherries, and oh yes did I forget figs. Good luck and good growing members.

If it works for you, it works for us. Good post!

Looks like my tried and
true method. One gallon pot stick the cuttings in soil put in green house and thats it. I do other methods too just for the fun of it. Grate work you have done. Richie from louisiana

Thanks Mark, not pretty but the figs will still taste the same no matter what rooting method, the shack needs to come down this year, although it withstood 35 mph winds and torrential rains in the summertime.

Cool stuff Wayne. The simpler the better! I tried sticking a few larger cuttings straight in pots full of light soil and they are doing just fine! Thanks for the very nice photos and for sharing !

Is the one with the deep lobes a Brunswick or Vasilika Syka?

Simple is what I do best Chris, I am sure this will not work for everyone, I did a lot of misting, watered using gnatrol and sprayed periodically with permethrin.

Thanks Richie, gallon pots should work in LA, been to N'Orleans several times during my 5 year post-baccalaureate years at USM.

Wayne,
Looks great, I just love seeing pictures of other peoples setups.
Good luck with them all

Simple and effective! great job.
Once we are out of the deep freeze in New York I am planning to do something similar, rooting in my own potting mix outside.

Thanks Coop, I thought everyone would get a kick out of this one.

Chris, I believe it is VS, I am rooting both variants, but it may be N600m, I will look in the morning. I do not have any Brunswick except in the ground.

Hi Mat, try a few methods and see what works the best for you, there a few good/great fig members in NY, connections should be helpful. I know freeze, believe me, I was born and raised in NH (25 years) then moved to Florida in 1976.

Looks great Wayne...........are you doing to plant all those trees in the ground?

Nice setup.......easy is my favorite way to go....I like the pictures

Thanks Brian, I will most likely plant about 1/2 acre in figs the rest of the 4 acres will be other fruit trees/bushes.

Thanks John for the compliment, the photos are about the best that I can do.

Beautiful pictures!

Thanks Yeehova, I appreciate your comment.

Nice setup! I like it so much thanks for sharing and the effort to write and upload pictures :)

Gosh, it looks like you are running a nursery there!  Wow!  Lots of figs!!  Is that white space beyond the property a race track?  That would be so cool if it was...  Horse racing....  Car exhaust wouldn't be cool for the figs, but horse poop is a good thing. :-)  Good Job on all of it!  We have one Mango.  I pray for it daily.  Thought it was a gonner after we first planted it, but the Garden Web forums helped me.  They need a lot of water.  In drought ridden So CA pretty hard, but I'm not above filling a 5 gallon cold drink dispenser, leaving the spigot on slow, and letting it drip for as long as it wants.  Rescued the tree.  It lived through the snow this winter just fine (1/2 an inch that stuck around for 6 hours prior to melt down).  It was too warm for it to snow, but the upper cloud drafts were cold, and the snow fell anyway.  It's now really happy and growing a lot. 

Suzi

Very healthy looking trees you have there!  I like it!

Thanks Mohammad, I really appreciate your comments.

Hi Suzi, no race track, just neighbors that do have horses, several horses in our ranchette neighborhood. My mangos are doing super this year, also avocados, papayas, plums, and lychees are producing much better than last year. You have some pretty interesting weather, snow? wow! You are lucky the mango lived. My big mango producer will see about 200+ fruits this year and it froze back to just above the graft several years ago when we had 6 hours of 24 degree weather.