Fig grafting disasters

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@fruitnut

How did you root to achieve near 100%?

I just wrapped the cut ends with buddy tape and stuck them in potting mix (about half of them) or right in the ground outside, both of the batches March-April. We had a very rainy, cold spring, and they didn’t sprout for a few months, but all that rain kept them from drying out I guess. My only failure was one that I stuck in the soil upside down, actually.

Here’s what the potted ones looked like:

Rooting fig cuttings

I’m trying my hand at rooting some fig cuttings in the greenhouse this spring, Takoma Violet and Ronde de Bordeaux I got from a generous forum member in a cutting trade: [PXL_20220407_194710754] Do most people wrap cuttings with terminal buds, too? I only did the cut ends but could still rewrap them if that would be advisable.

I separated them in late summer/early fall. Here’s an example of the outdoor ones:

Propagating Fig Cuttings

I’ve had basically 100% success starting fig cuttings in the ground outdoors here in Seattle, even with our unusually cold spring this year. I posted in the other thread this spring after these four appeared to have rooted successfully: Here’s what they look like today (probably should’ve given them more fertilizer this summer), so some day this will be a 4-in-1 fig tree: [PXL_20221005_173446975]