I’ve finished my little experiment on rewetting dried out scions. 28 each of fig and peach scions were allowed to dry for 4 days setting on my kitchen counter. Then submerged for 3 days in water and weighed at various intervals to see how rapidly they dried and then rewet. What follows is the weight of all 28 cuttings. Weight after wetting started is corrected for the small amount of surface water that remained on the cuttings after they drained for 30 seconds.
time…Figs…peaches
start…187 g…84g
1 day drying…172…73
2days drying…158…65
3 days drying…146…60
4 days drying…140…58
15 min wetting…141…59
1 hr wetting…143…61
3 hr wetting…156…66
6 hrs wetting…166…68
12 hrs wetting…172…70
1 day wetting…184…72
1.5 days wetting…191…75
2 days wetting…194…76
3 days wetting…199…79
The cuttings were shriveled looking after two days so this was severe drying. It took a considerable period of being submerged to regain the water lost. The peaches never quite did regain all the loss. The figs gained it all back and more probably because they were at least somewhat freeze damaged and dried out when cut.