On 14th I had washed off the Cinnamon off of one group and rewrapped them in clean wet paper towel and zip-locked again, the other group was washed off of Cinnamon and re-applied fresh dust of Cinnamon all over them and wrapped in clean wet paper towel and zip-locked until today.
Today I opened the 2 zip-locked groups of cuttings that I was experimenting the Cinnamon with.
group 1 had no Cinnamon on them and group 2 had fresh Cinnamon sprinkled before zip-lockinf again.
group 1 is starting to show some roots but group 2 isn't yet. 
I broke off 5 figletts off of the cuttings while I was washing them off of Cinnamon.
No sign of mold for what so EVER :)(:

  
SO, I decided to wash group 2 also off of Cinnamon and wrapped both groups of cuttings in clean, wet paper towels and zip-locked again for more dark times in pantry.

ok, week 4 and some roots are coming out already, long enough so i separated few from each group and planted directly into one gallon pots with Mirricle-Grow potting soil formulated for new root development. Still, no sign of fungus ;)

  

Looks like my trial with Cinnamon has come to an end, since almost all cutting rooted and yet no sign of Mildew, Mold, Fungus nor Gold ;)
Took 4 week and 4 days to get to this stage! Tomorrow they are all going to joinn the earlier rooters of this series of cuttings. This was a fun project.
 

Final day before planting them!

 
Conclusion!
Cinnamon definitely prevents fungus.
So, what I am going to do for my cuttings is this (to be moderate with Cinnamon), I will soak the cuttings in very strong Cinnamon tea  (warm) for about 30 min then air dry them, then wrap them in  moist paper towel and Zip-Lock them. Once a week I will open the Zip-Lock to aerate the cuttings and either wash the paper towels or use new moist paper towels to wrap the cuttings again with. This will go on until they all root.

*I should mention again that all my cutting have been washed really well, dried then dipped both ends in melted Paraffin to prevent infections and diseases. It also helps the cuttings to form calluses at cut side.

Special thanks to Marianna for introducing me to this idea :)
I hope you all can benefit from my experiment.
Thank you.

Say Hello to new babies.
They are all in open air to grow out of their one gallon nursery pots.
Mission accomplished ;)

  
BTW, all these experimental cuttings were from this variety , picture bellow.
 

Thank you Aaron for this series. I have had had my share of mold, and knew about cinnamon, but never applied it to figs. I think it's a great idea.

By the way, my brother speaks Italian and so I put "taccarieddhrum" to him. He was baffled, but found a Sicilian friend who said, Oh yea, "turkey."

[QUOTE=musillid]Thank you Aaron for this series. I have had had my share of mold, and knew about cinnamon, but never applied it to figs. I think it's a great idea.

By the way, my brother speaks Italian and so I put "taccarieddhrum" to him. He was baffled, but found a Sicilian friend who said, Oh yea, "turkey."[/QUOTE] It was my pleasure Dale, hope every body can benefit from my experiment ;)
P.S.
does Turkey mean it's from Turkey or... Brown Turkey or something?

I think Brown Turkey means a brown fig from Turkey. Given Sicily's proximity to Turkey and it's Moorish influences, plus the absence of color reference, my speculation means the country, not the bird.

So, does DE LU TACCAREDDHRUM mean BROWN TURKEY? (SCRATCHING MY HEAD, LOL)

I've got all my recent cuttings in cinnamon.  The cupboard where they reside really smells good!

I guess I have a few weeks before seeing roots, but it's my first cinnamon adventure!

Suzi

Suzi, Cinnamon may slow down the entire process but you'll never have loss. You can wash the cuttings off of cinnamon after a week and loosely wrap them again in moist paper towel.
Your shipment was out today BTW, you'll receive it on Saturday. I included a surprise cutting for you;)

I'm going to share something you folks playing with cinnamon need to see.  Penzey spices has great cinnamon.  If you want real cinnamon then you want to buy the Ceylon which is expensive.  Since most people use grocery store cinnamon they are using Cassia which maybe fine. The orchid folks use it all the time for rot.

mine, from Smart and Final worked just fine. :)