My patience ran out today. I had to look. I had bought some plastic cups to transplant four cuttings in one pot into individual cups with perlite. I gently tapped them out and there was no visible sign of roots in the coir immediately against the inside of the pot. I was disappointed and thought the cuttings had rotted. However, when I broke one cutting away from the mass of coir there were about a dozen long white roots! I was elated - no amount of exclamation marks could cover how I felt.

Breaking the other three apart bore the same results so they were all repotted in the clear cups with perlite to see how they come along. it's a big assumption but I'm hoping that this is indicative of what the others are doing.

Congratulations!  The more mature the roots the better they survive up potting so next time wait  :)

Thank you. Yes, it was unbearable hearing other people seeing roots at the bottom of their pots but in my climate everything happens at the speed of continental drift.

Congrats Kelo,it is exciting stuff isn't it?, try to resist the urge though to take them out of the coir to look,the roots are always fragile at this stage and you don't want to loose them.I started rooting directly into clear cups now to remedy my curiosity,didn't make waiting to see roots any easier though!

LOL I know, I knew I would do it. When people have much hotter weather than us poor sods in the UK everything happens much quicker. I will resist looking at the others though as I see no reason why other wouldn't be the same unless some of the cuttings I have are difficult to root. Time will tell.

Hi,
In march I trimmed trees for size-control.
One was my healthy longue d'aout ... It is hard to throw such a stick when you know it could be turned into a productive tree.
But well, I'm spaced out ...
Well I put them outside in a bucket with water.
Two weeks later... Well they are some hlda after all ... Lets cut them into pieces of 20 cm (6'') and put them in some pots ...
I had leaves on three until mid April when a late freeze cooked them ...
Lets see if they bounce back.
Some were still dormant and have now buds swelling slowly ... I won't check for roots ... And they' ll root if they want and will be welcome if they do ...
Outside temps, except for that damn Thursday night , have been in between 5°C and 25°c with a global average of 10°C  (41°F / 77°F / 50°F) .

Kelo,It depends on a whole bunch of factors but even when everything else is the same 2 cuttings can take dramatically different amounts of time to root and you can just bet that when you get the hard to root one out to have a look it will just be forming tiny easily breakable roots!.

Jdsfrance,I've had some luck with the 'stick in the dirt' method later in the year or outside in a cold frame from Feb onwards,the later in the year you do it the better,Feb/March I probably had 20% success rate last year.If you ever have a problem about what to do with your pruned wood in future please let us fellow Europeans know,I'm sure we can arrange to take them off your hands

Yes, there are many situations that influence rooting; I have the same problem with orchids. I'm just a zone jealous grower lol. I would love to live in a country where the average daily temperature is 35C - that seems to be my ideal temperature for stopping nerve pain that I have to endure every day in the UK.

Long ago, before hormones were discovered, I suppose the only way was to use water to root figs or simply to stick them in the ground like you can do with plumeria and they would grow in their own time.