I cut and stuck the scion into rockwool about a week ago. Now I have the worlds smallest Sicilian Red fig tree! Using rockwool has been my tried and true way, I get about 95% success rate.

1. soak scion with water mixed with rooting hormone
2. soak 1x1 inch rockwool with water mixed with rooting hormone, squeeze excess
3. firmly stick the scion end into the rockwool
4. saturate the rockwool cube every few days, its important to not let the rockwool cube dry out.
5. in about 7 days you should see roots!

That's pretty cool, don't know why no one else has tried this.

Cheer for u.

Where do you get rockwool?  I've heard of it here but know nothing about it.
Suzi

I am definitely going to try this.

Suzi,

They get rockwool from rock sheep......But it does not get clipped but once every decade,,,,so it is/could be quite expensive.

IT WAS A JOKE>>>>>

Suzi, try a greenhouse supply company either local or on the web, Charlie's is a good one. Rockwool is cheap

Cecil, That was good!

Jeeze Cecil :-(!  Thanks Barry :-))!

Suzi

I've used rockwool in the past, but now mainly for air-layering small limbs.  The problem I had was controlling the amount of water in it. Now I soak it, then set it on a sponge to wick the excess moisture out.  When I put it around a limb and wrap it in plastic, it retains enough moisture for the limb to root.

One of the neat things about the rockwool system is when you have roots in the small 'plugs' they fit inside a hole in the larger cubes so the roots have more of the medium to grow into.  It's like potting up without risk.

It is available at most hydroponic stores.

All

This looks like a good place to start looking at rockwool products:
http://www.hydroponics.net/learn/rockwool.asp

I  definitely have got to try this next year. My Sicilian Red cuttings took for EVER to root . I bought them off of Ebay in March and the first one to root was in mid June. 2 of the 3 didn't make it though. 

Howie,
Tell us please what kind of rooting hormone you use and how much do you put of it per a given amount of water.
Thanks

I like this way rockwool is mach chipper then perlite.

@ Danny, Noss & Pete

I am glad someone saw the humor in what I said!

From the looks of it, there was someone that didn't :-( maybe another one now that I think of it!

The funny went over my head. I googled rock sheep lol

RockWool huh?  I need to try that stuff.  I playing around with new stuff.  Speaking of playing around....I found a rooting horemone that I found that gave me 100% rooting success.  This called Hormonex.  It's a red concentrated liquid in a short white bottle.  You only place the end tip in the solution, not the whole cutting.  So far every cutting that I used it on rooted long hard roots.  You know when you start cuttings in spaghmum moss and have to be careful not to rip or tear the roots off a cutting?  You don't have to worry about that with this stuff.  This stuff help the cutting create long hard roots.  No joke!  I'm very surprised this stuff worked!.  The saleman told me it is a professional mix and to give it a try.  I got a tray of English Brown Turkey cutting that I started to prove my point.  In a few hours, I'll post some pics of this stuff and the cuttings I started 4 weeks ago.  Anyone else try this stuff?

Here is a link to the web site.
http://www.hormex.com/?gclid=CITD7qS6q7ICFYQQNAod8lMAEA

Cecil, I'm fine with jokes, but the poor girl needed to know the truth. I would've told the joke then the truth, just sayin.

Barry,

I think I should have did it that way, But I thought she would have caught it as soon as she read that crap....HAHA.....Guess not!

It's all well that ends well Cecil 

When you put the cutting in the pot, do yout take the cutting out of the rock wool or put the whole thing in the soil?