Naeem! Glad you enjoy the videos! Awesome growth on your cuttings. You must be using a great lighting setup. I used a humidity dome last year, but the problem with that is getting them adjusted to room humidity. Takes forever and a strong plant. Ween them off that 84% humidity VERY slowly.
Thanks Ross. Since I am learning I know will make some mistakes and learn from them. I plan to keep these in small cups for about two more months and slowly decrease humidity. What I understand if you have a very good roots and leaves these will survive. My light is simple 4 feet 6500K double shop light nothing special I kept lights very close to the cuttings not that far. I have not fed my cuttings any fertilizer but just find out perlite I was using ( Miracle Grow ) has some fertilizer. Good Luck with your cuttings as we all need some.
Itās not a mistake! Just a different way to doing it! I killed many cuttings using a humidity dome though. Just my recommendation.
Good luck Naeem.
I set the figs out for some extra sunshine today. It was a little windy so I didnāt leave them for to long but Iām sure they benefited from it. This has been a really nice winter distraction, I think they are pretty plants just to look at when everything else is brown.
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Nice and healthy looking cuttings sure will become beautiful plants.
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Thank you Naeem, I sure hope so. Maybe I will get figs this year. I have never eaten a freash fig.
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I donāt grow trees in pots so I am unsure when I should repot the figs into a larger container. Anyone have any pointers. This is the most recent photo I have of them taken 11 days ago.
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Did those ever go dormant and drop their leaves?
Iāve read,that itās better to transplant,just as they start growing in the Spring.
One guy says,not to disturb the roots or soil around them and if anything,only take a cutting tool and score the outside in a few places.
Good looking plants,by the way. Brady
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No, they were never dormant, they are cuttings that I rooted this winter, here is the one in the oatmeal tube on January 7th.
You have a little time still. You want the soil ball to hold together but not be rootbound yet. If you are careful you can move them up now. The canister will be very easy, you can just peel it off. That will be a critical time for them, be careful to only water when the container has become lite in weight so the new potting mix around the rootball does not become waterlogged.
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Thanks for the tips on such a novice question. I agree the cardboard tube will be easy to unravel, it has started to break down a little. I will cut the plastic bottle off as well but it wonāt be as easy. I try to monitor the water closely, I suspect it will be more difficult when I move them outside. I am thinking gallon pots for the next container.
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it is so easy to break off roots at this stageā¦āIāve heardā 
be careful when you do repot them.they look great
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Thank you, I started the fig that is in the 2 liter bottle in a very small plastic cup, ( like four inches tall). When I moved it to the 2 liter the roots were super delicate. I can see as they get bigger and heavier they may be even worse.
This is the site I followed when starting with Figs and am still learning. Brady
http://www.figtrees.net/
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Iām so jealous of you, Jason. Outside this web site I keep reading articles about how easy to is to propagate figs- that they are one of the easiest plants to root, in fact. In this forum people are a little more realistic in admitting that it isnāt a cake walk, but a lot of people still say they just stick pieces in the ground or in a Tupperware container with per-lite or peat or whatever. Then you come along with an old oatmeal carton and coke bottle full of potting soil and 2 of the most beautiful plants Iāve seen anywhere (congrads on your success). But I have a horrible success rate. It hasnāt been 0 over the last 2 years, but probably something like 10-20% success, which is abysmal. Iāve tried many different techniques and none have been very good. My best method (and thatās not saying much at all) has been just sticking pieces down in a mix of potting soil that I added extra peat and perlite to and kept well watered.
If you or anyone else have any more tips Iām all ears, but I for one think you should be proud of those 2 plants- it isnāt as easy as some would have us believe! BTW, @Bradybb , I didnāt look long, but I didnāt see anything on the site you posted a link to about how to propagate. Should I go look again or did I misunderstand your post? Thanks
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For me the key has been placing cuttings in a loose soil mix on top of a heat mat. Iāve only lost one cutting so far this year. I also use rooting hormone but would guess that heat is the most important part. You can do it, Kevin!
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Yes the containers are a little silly looking but that fits my style, lol. You know I couldnāt be more happy with these figs so far. This was my first attempt and it went really well. I got the cuttings from s member who told me they were from a fig cutting that they had rooted easily. I believe some types are more difficult than others so that may be one reason they rooted so quickly. I chose the oatmeal container because I thought I could control the moisture in it better than a plastic container. I have trouble with things rotting in plastic containers when I start seeds. I put it in a glass dome to keep the humidity up. I have a room with a wood stove that is very warm in the winter, so I put it there and it rooted and just took off. I hope I get to eat a freash fig this year, I have only eaten dried.
I really, really appreciate that, Steven. Not just the moral support, but your post was just the kind of simple, specific information I need. Those kinds of post will make this thread last forever since I donāt think Iām the only one in need of some straight forward, basic, easy to follow recommendations like that.
I donāt have a heating pad but Iāve recently been sitting my box with cuttings on top of my refridgerator. There is just enough space between the top of my fridge and the cabinets over it for the box to fit, and this keeps them surprisingly warm and moist. But maybe too much so, because they often mold/mildew before any roots form. I do have rooting hormone but donāt have much confidence it it. The powder type that I have is sort of strange in that no matter how damp the box gets- or even when I coat the bottom of a stick and put it all the way into a glass of water- the powder is so water insoluble that it stays dry! Hopefully some of you know what I mean, but as soon as I pull a stick out of the water with rooting powder, the powder is dry. Crazy. Thanks
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Kevin,
I posted that because of the transplanting information he gives for already rooted plants,like Jasonās.
I havenāt had great success either,getting them started.Theyāre still somewhat of a mystery to me.Keep going with them. Brady
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I have some valuable scion right now. And I agree about rooting. I had the worse year for me only getting 50% takes I lost two varieties I wanted. So since I have 25 plus trees with about 5 unknowns. What happened was a bunch of scion didnāt take. So I left it sit in peat moss a couple months and a bunch rooted! All unmarked. One I threw in the ground it rooted, then froze, then regrew leaves! I think it is Hardy Chicago, but not sure? I have another anyway. So these will be rootstock, and I may make other figs share a scaffold. Grafting figs is probably easier than any other tree.
So I will leave in the fridge till growth starts.