Just an update to my fig growing experience.
The cutting pictured here (top):
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Turned to this:
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The bottom cutting grew three leaves then it suddenly went downhill, I believe it needed a little more water, but it never recuperated.
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I've changed it from several mediums to see if it was just lacking something (nutrients, etc.) and it hasn't completely died, but it seems like it might start to desiccate any day now.
But out of all the ones I started a few months ago the one that survived was the short trunk planted straight to soil (pictured below)
Inline imageThis one actually started to dry up because it was under the sun all day long. I took it out of the soda bottle and mixed some MG and perlite 60/40 and it came back to life, the old growth died and new leaves started to come out from the old buds. Its in partial shade with a cup over it to keep direct sun and inc. the humidity in a 2 gal pot.
Now to my more recent cuttings that I started 3 and 2.5 weeks ago. There are mixed from my Neightbors, which I call Leadwell Unknown, which are dark figs with breba and Mobil Unknown, that I found near a gas station, which are also dark and had breba.
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All of these are 100% weathered, they were started under my avocado tree and get early and evening sun, direct and indirect, been having some windy days and sometimes I find the box uncovered. I've had near 100% success rooting these, except for a Leadwell Unk as can be seen in the bottom right on top of the Hydrangea cutting.
And these are another experiment, all Leadwell Unk that I was force to start because the branch that I was gonna air-layer broke off. They are growing in very high humidity with some pomegranate cuttings, possibly Wonderful (80% sure). I inserted two straws around the bag and from there I spray water every 2 or 3 days. I used to mist all the cuttings, but I was getting too many roots on top of the 'soil' line and I only mist the pomegranate cuttings. They are covered with a clear plastic bag to keep humidity high, mostly for the punica granatum cuttings.
Inline imageThey have excellent roots, and where started 3 or 4 days after the cuttings outside. The only difference is that these have 2x the roots but almost 80% less green growth. two or three cuttings have 3 in roots spreading on top of the perlite.
Inline imageThe only drawback just like my experience with the baggie method is, mold, I mist all these cuttings with Hydrogen Peroxide every other day and it seems to kill it for a couple days, but this burns the edges of the leaves.
And a side note, I found this little one in the back of my yard, took it out, was as careful as I could to get roots out and planted it into a 3 gal pot.
Inline imageIt looked like this only for the first 12 hrs or so, then it drooped and drooped and its so wilted now that two of the bigger leaves have fallen off.
The pot is covered with that MG bag in the background and I water it every other day if it feels dry if not I add another day. I just feel sad for taking it out and putting it on the path to die, but where it was growing there was hardly any sun and it was heavily outnumbered by heavy landscape shrub roots.
I found another fig tree with no breba, but with plenty of main crop growing almost across the street from my house on a sidewalk, I'm going to start some cuttings of that in the coming week.
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