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Zidi cuttings available - Smyrna type - needs wasp

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And just like that I now have a Zidi...
Thanks for the great cuttings...


Yes me too. Thanks Conrad as both cuttings you sent rooted fine. Might need some wasps and a Capri fig too up where I live later on when they get larger.
Nice graft Simon, what did you use for the rootstock? I also had some success doing some grafting this season.

Love this fig:)

@Larsb: I used a 2 year old Kadota...
Wasn't really producing so used it for root stock...

Thanks for that reply Simon. Just also used a 2 year Kadota Janice Seedless for a Smith graft and it worked great!

I'm thrilled the cuttings are working out for you.  Grafting seems like an advanced fig-ninja skill to me.  Maybe I'll try it some day, after I learn how to root cuttings without them going moldy.

It's the first time I offered cuttings, and I wasn't sure if I did it right, but it guess taking cuttings is about as easy as it seemed.

I noticed your comment about cuttings getting moldy.
Within the last two months I tried to grow some cuttings but they died after getting a couple of nice sized leafs. I started them in some water, they got nice roots and some green growth on top. I decided I could move them into some planting medium. The leafs grew to about the size of a quarter but then they wilted and dried up. This happened twice. The first time I had forgotten to water for a couple of days so I thought that was the problem. The second cutting did the same thing even though I watched the watering carefully. I am using potting mix. Have you had similar experience? 

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Originally Posted by C_Rad
I'm thrilled the cuttings are working out for you.  Grafting seems like an advanced fig-ninja skill to me.  Maybe I'll try it some day, after I learn how to root cuttings without them going moldy.


The two skills aren't really related, and you can always try both at the same time.  The nice thing about grafting is you can take one cutting and easily produce 3+ grafts from it.  My graft success rate isn't great (~50% this year), but since I have 3 grafts per cutting, that's 87.5% per cutting.  That's almost as good as my success with rooting.

Harvey convinced me to try it because with an established root stock, it grows a lot faster than a cutting.  I still do mostly cuttings since it is much cheaper, but now that I'm out of room, I'm probably going to do almost all grafting.

Watch Harvey's videos, and expect some failures.  There's some preferred times to start grafting--you don't want the graft to get too cold, for example.  Whip graft is the most likely candidate for a cutting, but if you have a big trunk, you can do a bark graft or cleft graft.  So far my cleft grafts did not take but my whips have been good.

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