Does anyone root cuttings year-round? If it is OK to start new trees now, do you just treat them like houseplants until it gets warm again? Do they require anything special to overwinter indoors. I've got tropicals and citrus that do just fine inside, so I thought this would be feasible. Thanks.

I do!  I have several recent rooted cuttings with leaves in clear plastic cups and when they can be removed from humidity (the plastic cup lid), I will pot them up and let them be house plants.  In spring they will go outside with the others.  What I love about the clear plastic cups is that I can see the roots and the green shoots coming up from below.  I keep foil around them so they think it's dark like underground, but it sure is fun to take a peek!

Suzi

I have many cuttings now in all phases of rooting.  I found the some do better than others.  I am being luck with cuttings I put in a plastic tub lined with moist newspaper. I cut some styrfoam in strips and use them for shelving the cuttings, then I put another blanket of wet newspaper over the cuttings and close the box, lid is tight (these boxes come with greens for salad)  I put the box leaning over the heating vents and rotate  the box to get warm from both sides. I inspect them often and adjust as I think they need. The cuttings stay semi moist, as nothing is toughing the wet paper, except from the top, which dries up quickly.. the steamed up moist seem to ve working well.  Once they grow little eyes, I move them to moss  and have a heating coil on them -  yeah.. a lot of handling... I also started others that were very long inside of tall water bottles, they appeared to be 2-3 y.o.with secondary growth, so I imagine I would get a head start by not cutting the secondary growth.  I did not do the newspaper... I dipped them in hormone and planted them in the tall bottles. I lean the bottles sideways, so I can rotate them. I have new growth on these, same age as some in the plastic box.  the box has roots and no leaf - so I am assuming some rooting is forming in the bottles. Love these experimenting.  

I start rooting now and by the end of summer I usually have 3 to 6 foot trees.  I just root them, put in bins then under growlights until end of spring when its warm enough outside.

i'll find out by the spring if rooting in winter will work here in nc in my house. hope it works.

Pretty much. Don't have time some months, but otherwise, yes. 

Mine are either under lights or by a bright window.

Mine are in plastic cups covered with foil (to fool them into thinking they are in the dark underground), but the tops are covered by another plastic cup with air vents to trap moisture from the damp soil.  They are in our guest bathroom, and there is a huge wall of those glass bricks, so they get plenty of light and warmth all day.  In winter, the heat goes on!  All will be well!  Sun always shines in Southern California!!  Well, almost..

Suzi

Well then ... let the rooting begin! I didn't really want to wait until springtime anyway. Thanks.

If your citrus does well, so will the figs.  :)