To all those that have helped me with my quickly developing addiction by providing cuttings, here is my progress so far. 

Earlier in the week I placed some cuttings in damp spaghnum moss (MosserLee) in zip top baggies in the dark in a warm area of my house and will wait for these to root before transplanting to a larger size container.

Today I directly planted cuttings in 32 oz clear deli containers filled with 60/40 (MiracleGrow perlite/MiracleGrow Organic Choice Potting Mix) and watered thoroughly.  I let the deli containers drain thoroughly before placing inside another same size deli container and using a bottle top as a spacer between the containers to allow water drainage for later watering.  I drilled 8 holes in the bottom of each deli container to allow the water to drain into the second deli container.  These containers were placed on top of an electric fermentation heater (had this from homebrewing) in a 27 gallon Sterilite container.  The heater is controlled by a temperature controller (had this from homebrewing too) set to 76F.  The lid was placed on the Sterilite container and placed in a north facing window.  When possible I directly planted two cuttings of each variety, one a large diameter cutting and the other a small diameter cutting and I also saved some cuttings (stored in my refrigerator door lower shelf) in case of failure to try again in the spring.

By trying two methods I hope to find which works best for me.  And thanks to everyone's ideas along the way, I've cobbled a few together to come up with this two method experiment.

Looks pretty good, Steve.  Very neat and tidy...(unlike most of my projects).  Please keep us posted.  I love seeing pics of other people's methods and progress. 

so cute to see them marching into the tub all lined up and in proper order...own... mine are not as well behaved! Hope they will continue this way... update us!

Steve,
     Looks like your off to a good start.  Best of luck with the whole project.
                              
                                                        

Nice set up!  Looks great.  Good luck with them!

Steve,

Thanks for posting, Looks like a neat setup. What is the air temperature outside the plastic tote? (just for my curiosity). Please keep us posted on the rooting progress.

Edit 11/19/12...Steve, Thanks for the update.

Best of Luck,

Steve:

Nice photos and good set-up.   The heat mat is a nice touch.   Can't wait to see more in 3-4 wks.

thanks

I will check the temp in the room over the next few days and report back.  For now I am very satisfied (and surprised) that the temp can be maintained in a RubberMaid type container without the need for any insulation.  I was ready to throw a sleeping bag or blanket over the container, but it looks like that will not be necessary.

Steve, nice set up you have there. I missed this thread when you started it two days ago.

I put the website on my babies thread for the 32 oz cups.

ascpete,

I can't give a useful response since it has been so warm here in the Houston area (well, at least based on what I'm use to from the NE).  My house temps haven't been below 70F (no furnace running) so my set up is easily maintaing 75-76F.  I'll report again when it cools off somewhat here and my house temp drops.

Steve,
Thanks for the update. With those ambient temperatures you should not have any problem maintaining the optimal rooting temperature. That was the reason for my original question. Maintaining optimal rooting temps is dependent on ambient temps, whether high or low.

I missed this thread also a few days ago.  Very impressive! 

Steve, what kind of heating mat is that?

Calorique heating pad 

Grasa,

You will need a temperature controller for this....

Northern Brewer website

http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/electric-fermentation-heater.html

Had a few cool days here in Houston.  Temp in the house dropped to 65F.  The temp in the RubberMaid type container easily stayed at 76F.