OK. Never did this before. Here I go. Got the cuttings. One is green. This is the one I started with. 10% bleach solution for 30 seconds. Air dry for 20 minutes or so. I took a clear 12 ounce plastic drink cup. Drilled 4 holes in the bottom. Got some large size perlite and mixed in 10% potting soil. So its 9 parts large particle perlite and 1 part potting soil. The perlite and the potting soil were both dry. I then added 50 Grams of water. The cup, medium, cutting and water weight are 144.3 Grams. Score the base of the cutting, sprinkle dry rooting hormone, put in the medium. This may seem to be a  lot, but no water came out the bottom and it seemed very light to me. Now I take the cutting and put it in a clear sterilite container with a black lid. I wish it were a clear lid but no such lid at the store I bought it from. This goes on top of a heat tile with a rheostat and temp control. Temp fluctuates between 75F and 77F. Humidity 95 to 99%. Oh, and I put some water in the perlite container to bring the humidity up. But the cup is up on a porous carborundum stone so it’s not touching the water. I started this Sunday. As of today the whole thing lost 4 grams of weight. Not sure whether that’s from the medium or the cutting. What do you think? Is the humidity to high? Any other ideas?  

the cutting looks a bit on the large side, seems like you could easily do a second with it if you cut it in half

Brett, your method seems to be spot on. Lots of different mediums are used. I found a 70/30 coco coir/ perlite mix worked for me. Others have used different mixes with good success. Use the search feature and try a few different ones and use the one best for you. Experimentation is part of the the fun. Same goes with different hormones but your methodology is right on. Good luck.

I think your method is very professional strong work.
Only advice to remember to much water is 98% the cause of cutting dieing. Humidity is a good thing. Doesn't take much moisture to root a cutting. Good luck and great work. Richie from louisiana

Well, thank you all for the encouragement. I did read a bunch of posts on here about it before I started. You don't think I came up with all this on my own do you? LOL. As far as the amount of moisture in the growing medium,,,I really have no idea if it is too much or too little. I guess if I have rot I will try another one with somewhat less . That is why I weighed and recorded everything. So I have  a point of reference. I'll let you know how it works out. Thank you.

I admire your precision and technique and am sure it will pay off; you'll experiment and find what works for you. I've found over the past several years of rooting cuttings however, that when you can get the cuttings in relative abundance, it's often much less stressful and far less expensive to simply stick the scion in some seedling mix or soft garden soil mixture (compost and sand is my mix even and wait for it to begin to grow. Call me old fashioned, but that's how the old gardeners I learned from showed me! You'd be surprised at the success rate -- upwards of 75%. I've found that giving the cuttings time to grow on their own allows for trees to become more viable -- roots and shoots develop together. It might take an extra season for your trees to produce fruit, but strong scions will survive and become excellent trees. I don't mean to diminish your technique at all, just wanted to add my two cents! 

Yes all of the above. Great work Brett.

Update on this first cutting if you can remember lol
Richie

I'd like to know how this turned out.

Bretton, I'd also like to know how this turns out. Keep us posted. I know this can be a very intimidating process. Until recently I'd never done it...I mean...Grow a living tree from a twig. There's a lot of wisdom on this forum, and everyone is genuine. A really good membership.

You do seem spot on..... And so are many others - from cloners to those who swear by, "stick a twig in the ground and wait". There is more than one way to do this so just because someone is doing something a bit differently, doesn't mean you should give up what you're doing.

If I could make two suggestions based on my personal experience, first would be that you consider rooting more than one cutting at a time. The reality is that I've never heard of a grand master fig-er who is 100% successful. I'd recommend getting yourself a number of cuttings. Some will take and some won't. This will also allow you to assess what you might have done differently with the ones that made it versus the ones that didn't. Cutting size, number of nodes above and below soil, water, light etc. It's from that process that we all learn and share.

Second suggestion is the difficult one. Be patient. I know it's hard when you're looking every day for a sign of roots but it can take time. I know some see roots inside 2 weeks. Myself just yesterday I saw the first sign of actual roots from a cutting I started first week in September. Others in the same batch don't look dead, but still have yet to show me anything...

I look forward to hearing of your first fig...