Bit of background. My mum is pretty much a brown thumb. Hated how high the branches were so cut the branches off this fig tree to the stump couple years back. This year it had new growth but all the figs on the new branches didnt ripen except for a couple. I mentioned it on here and someone said its probably a san pedro fig? and needed fig wasps to pollinate it for it to get ripe. So she hacked all the branches off again few months back and this weekend wanted to cut it back close to the ground so new branches will be low and easy to pick new fruit. Since i dont know if it would come back and no small branches to make proper cuttings i thought id try and see if i could propagate the whole log lol
its meant to be a great fig tree that produce medium sized very sweet honey figs
Anyways what do you guys think of my chances? haha I plan to try and graft to the 4 stumps that is left of this tree in spring too
in the second last pic you can just see a little node which i know a branch would grow out as ive seen these little branches come out of this trees trunk in the past like this.

       



Day 1 25/06/2017: :)
 

No sure what your chances are, but good luck with it.

It should root but it may take more than a year to put out shoots.  A heavy pruning often sets a fig back so it won't produce figs that year even if it's a common fig with 2 crops.  In general most people tell you to take less than 1/3rd of a fig (and most other fruits) at a time and no more.

yeah i know but my mum has no idea about plants
when she sees something that annoys her she will just go ahead and do it without worrying about the consequences...
Dont live with them so i only see the end results...

the pruning they did to the trunk last year was probably half the tree and it did grow very vigorously. It pushed out so many branches in the end i couldnt tell it was pruned by end of the season and the new branch growth were easily 2m if not more on the longest ones.<
But this time they went a bit crazy. It went from 4m to 2m couple months back when they pruned the branches to trunk. Now they have cut the trunk down to like a foot off the ground... br />

lobboroz

On Mr. Montserrat Pons video - 

hey lampo
thanks for the links
i think i watched / read something similar from another link you sent me from another post which gave me the idea of trying to graft directly to the trunk.
I dont have high hopes for the big trunk propagation was just experimenting and also a safety measure in case my parents tree doesnt come back haha
ill take a pic of how it looks now and then update in 6months time. I wish i had a pic of it pre - chopped

Hi
Meanwhile those big cuts on the grounded tree should be sealed with some home made (cheaper)
sealant to avoid contamination, diseases, ... thus promoting healthy shoots to appear by late winter/early spring as shown on the previous post.  Your pictures always help to understand better what we are talking about
Francisco

Here is a pic of my parents fig tree now. I still havent had time and found a recipe to cover the wounds. I dont go over often. Around a foot above ground. Prior to this they were around 5 ft to 6ft high

 

Hi ...thanks for showing the picture
Any ag. shop will sell the correct tree wound paint/paste and this will seal those cuts and avoid contamination.
Or,   in a 'bain-marie' prepare a mix of equal parts of  - beeswax + tallow+ resin - which is good for wounds and to seal graft cuts as well.
If the severely cut tree is subject to direct sun radiation, those nude stumps should get a couple of layers of white wash which will reflect sun light, cooling and  protecting the plant against all sort of critters.
Hope that , like in the given example by this coming spring several new shoots will show, ready for new branching or if you so decide, to graft  half a dozen of selected fig varieties.
Francisco

The after pic didn't work

Last time they cut it back to the trunk they got some amazing growth too. Around 2meter plus worth of growth on the new branches

I have done it.

I planted the log into a used paint bucket about 70% in the ground and 30% above. The above part I wrapped with cling wrap in order to prevent drying. The shoots were growing through the cling wrap.

After a few months I transferred into the ground.

Hey helike13
Just wondering how was the growth compared to normal cuttings?

For the starting very fast and slowed down a bit and stagnated for a while... :)