They rooted fairly easy in 3 weeks and were potted up on 1-14-13. Showed leaves in just a few days and looked really healthy. All of a sudden both cuttings on the same day started wilting and they both lost a leaf shortly afterwords. Today I dumped them out and checked the roots and they looked fine. I repotted them with a dose of BT/soap and we will see what happens.

None of my other 100 or so rooted cuttings are doing this. Maybe it is in the genes of this variety.

It could be to much water or not enough water. I had the same problem in the past. Don't move them around to much. Goodluck.

Not in the gene. My two cuttings and two rooted cuttings are doing great. Check water. Mine are now big enough they are sucking water. I have to water/mist the soil rather often.

Mike,

Just so happens I posted a comment about this just earlier in my thread about the lighting system.

If you don't have a lighting system then put it by the south facing window. If there's a draft by the window then maybe you can place it in a clear and deep container? I don't cover my containers I am using but if you decide to at least uncover during the day. These branches are for sure to fall off but if you provide enough light they will 99% for sure will return right at the same exact spot where the branches dry off.

Mist them a couple times a day.

Do not give up on them!

That is a sign of ,fertilizer Burn.
Never use fertilizer on a piece of wood intended to grow roots and become a plant.
Especially on a fig tree ,that roots best in poor soil.

Herman is right -- NEVER use any fertilizer on any newly potted cuttings. Ensure
good humidity like placing a plastic bag over newly potted cuttings. If you have a
moisture meter, use it to take readings. How is your potting mix soil to perlite/bark
mulch mixture ? Make more holes on container sides. Hope all goes well.

Rafed, thanks. I have a lighting system now. I use four sets of T8 lights and all other cuttings look just fine.

No fertilizer has been used.

Increase the humidity.

Navid.

Mike,

Since I had mentioned it earlier on my previous thread and now you have this problem.
I started a little topic of my own with picuters on it. I did not want to hi-jack your thread.

Good luck

i THOUGHT1-14-13 is  fertilizer,but it looks like is not.
It must be too much water,or lack of drainage,just like ,other posters indicated.
    mayson - When the plant is getting larger,you start by applying Osmocote in small quantities,for the first year,second year let the plant grow roots in ground and forget about fertilizer.
If you can't,let it grow in ground the smallest Fertilizer regimen should be used,but I will not say how much not to have you Burn and kill the plant and  say I told you so.

Just to add to the other comments, either more humidity or more water.  Assuming no other factors in the equation.

Herman, Thanks. I do use Foilage Pro but not until the plants are much larger.

Fertilizer, like affinity to certain color of figs, seems to be very personal thing. I use exclusively MG seedlings soil and MG perlite which do contain fertilizer for cuttings in cup until they get out of 1 gal pot. Once they move into 1 gal pot they start getting 1/4-1/3 strength MG fertilizer. So far, I haven't had any issue.

Keeping an older thread alive. I wanted to share some progress I've had with Nero 600m cuttings. Soaked the cuttings in rain water for several hours then I used Harvey's method with promix HP, parafilm, and treepots. So far here is their progress almost two weeks later in the garage, temp staying at 70, diffused sun light. Any thoughts on how things are going and what to keep an eye out for?

Don't assume that there are roots just because there are leaves.  Two weeks would be really fast for rooting.

You may want to create a humidity chamber, e.g., by covering the cuttings with a plastic bag.  Meanwhile, don't overwater.

That was actually something I had wondered, would the leaves start pushing out more so than the roots.. I'm giving these time and plan on being patient and not over watering... watering from the bottom and judging by weight of the pot. ..thanks

Anyone using Harvey's method similar to my post above without any other special setup and have success? Any thoughts on when to transition to outside indirect sun? Thanks All.

Updated progress.