On your covered tray method, do you cover the roots with dirt or just lay them on top of the potting soul and put plastic wrap over the tray> Hard to tell from your photo. Thanks.
Post #27 in this thread has more info about it. I put the lower half of the scion into the dirt and have the upper half in air. The foil covers the lower part (dirt) and the plastic wrap is over the top. The room I keep them in is about 80F (I like it warm 
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Ok so my fig cutting finally leafed out and did well for a while. But itâs showing signs of wilting, see picture. Itâs in a small pot, on my office desk. I water once a week. Why the drooping?
How wet is the soil? Does it get enough light in your desk? Too much light from the window suddenly perhaps?
No window. But itâs bright. No light changes. I donât give too much water. I water from bottom and give enough water until soil on top of the pot feels moist to the touch.
If it is just a cutting then it it is wilting because it doesnât have roots to support the leaves. If you put the cutting in p plastic bag and open it daily it should keep the leaves from wilting. Over a few weeks your cutting will start producing roots.
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With that many leaves it has roots. But the roots might not be where the soil is wet. So Iâd say the obvious answer is probably correct. It needs more water. Try watering once from the top. See if that helps.
How long has it been in that pot? Did you root in that pot or did you have a bag over it while rooting? If so when did you take the bag off? Did you accumulate it?
I like to root fig cuttings in dirt so you donât have to disturb the root system like if you root them in a bag with moist newspaper or moss and then have to plant them. Last year I rooted some in 100% perlite and when the roots were good I potted them and they are 12" tall now. I also rooted some directly in pots with a good draining soil last year at the same time and those plants are 18" tall now and have a much better root system.
Here is some pictures of some cuttings I tried last year here in Atlanta. The green cuttings straight in dirt had the best results with all the cutting living. The cuttings in 100% perlite just didnât grow as fast as the cutting put in dirt but about 90% lived.
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Take it home to light!
Thank you all for the comments.
I rooted it in that pot. Had a bag over it but took it off every other day or so because it was causing mold. It had been without a bag for 3 weeks now. So that canât be the reason for drooping. I will water from top and see if that helps. Waiting for nights to get warmer so I can take it home and plant outside. If I do that now, would it make matters worse? Worried that transplant shock on top of whatever it has right now will kill it. 
Ok I tried watering from top. That didnât help. Itâs drooping even more. Should I take it home and plant it in ground?
Hi all, I ordered fig cuttings from a well known, talked about mail order company. I was totally scammed, only spent 25.00 on cuttings but zip has ever arrived. Figs for Fun? Canât remember exactly. Beware of on-line fig companies, unless you get a recommendation here!
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I brought it home today. Going to plant in ground on Sunday after cool weather passes. Will give it some shade to harden it off. Hopefully itâll make it.
Some people are doing air-layerings with no soil, with plastic and rooting hormone and it works great. I skimmed over the information so I do not have a good idea how they are doing it.
I was told something that makes me think that rooting cuttings laying down works better than rooting them other ways.
at about 86 degrees Fahrenheit rooting happens faster than at 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
@Stan, @Kate, and @JamesWNY all sent me Desert King fig cuttings this winter. I threw them all together into the rooting bin.
Three of them rooted. Today, they graduated into cups.
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I am beginning to think that this successful batch of Desert King cuttings came from @Stan.
He also sent me Peterâs Honey, which has begun to root too.
A lot of the cuttings I got from sources in the Eastern U.S. just donât seem lively this year. Perhaps this past winterâs low temperatures zapped them.
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I hope Teramo works for you. I will plant my stick outdoors in a week or two.