Got it, sorry, it looked like you moved from a cup to a pot. I should have paid more attention to cutting(s)!
It is not uncommon for them to stall for a period of time.
I know this isn’t a fig (it’s a sweet black cherry) but I feel that I might get some good advice from you all since this is similar…
I have these potted up and trying to root these cuttings. So far they are in a small room in my house with a constant temperature and zip locks on them. They aren’t at the moment for sake of pics.
When do I need to bring these out to some sunlight in the house and when do I need to take the ziplock off permanently? I have been keeping check on them and watering as needed. They have came this far til now.
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Any and all advice is more than welcome as this is the first time I have tried rooting anything like this… 
I would try gradually exposing them to light now. Those buds are in complete darkness (or close to it), it looks like, and they’ll burn if you move them straight to sunlight. As for when to take the bags off, do you feel any resistance if you give a gentle tug? If not, then they almost certainly don’t have roots yet and would need more protection from drying out. If they do seem to have roots, you could probably take it off now. The more the leaves grow out in the bag, the more gradually you’ll have to ween them off the protected environment. I have somewhat limited experience, though, so someone who’s done this more may tell you different.
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How long have they been in the pots?Sometimes the top will grow on the life stored and not have root development.Is there a way to check,without disturbing them too much?Very cool if there is.bb
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@Bradybb Been a good 3 1/2 weeks since I potted them and they just started showing signs of life probably a week ago? I have been giving updates to them in my Orchard Projects thread here Around Post reply # 75 was the first signs of life. No idea how to check without disturbing them though…
I need to move them to my front foyer maybe… It gets sunlight in the mornings and then the rest of the day would be indirect sunlight. My wife already thinks I am crazy for having these in the house 
Wonder how she will react to them being out in the house instead of hid out of sight 
I will keep the bad on them for several more days and keep checking on them
Hoping to keep the updates going!
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I am going to start with just leaving the light on it that room… Do you think that will be ok or would that still be to much light? Couple days of this or a day of it then move it to some indirect sunlight in the house?
You will need to acclimatize them slowly to a lower humidity environment, else the shock will likely kill them. I used to use 2 liter soda bottles as domes, but I lost almost everything trying to slowly bring down the humidity level. Now I wrap in parafilm or just let it go without.
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Thanks One of the bags on the bigger one is loose and probably isn’t holding to.much humidity but the smaller one has the bag over the whole thing. Guess we will see how it goes
The light in the closet is probably not nearly enough light. If you have a shop light or something like that, you could put them under that for ~12 hours a day until they start to green up… As bright as shop lights are, it’s less than 1/8 of direct sunlight.
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I put them in my foyer yesterday morning and it was cloudy then. So they got and will get indirect sunlight there (if it ever quits raining). I am hoping that by the time the sun does come out well then they will be use to it enough to be ok I also took the bag completely off the bigger one last night and pulled the zip lock up on the other. So maybe the humidity levels will be ok by doing this so slowly…
Cherry still looking good! Also does that look like a cherry blossom?!?!
And a pic of the other without the bag on.
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My purple gage produced a single tart fruit last year, so I decided to germinate it.
After 3 months in the fridge, I planted it on February 1st. It popped up on February 13th.
This photo was taken February 16th
These two photos were taken today.
I used cheap cocopeat and untested compost in the mix, so I am hoping it will not be too hot for the roots.
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Ok, so now that I have some nice rooted figs, how do I transition them to outside? Can I just harden them off like tomatoes as the weather warms and expect them to keep growing? Or should I expose them to some cool temps on the unheated sun porch? I was going to just move them out in May, but it looks like the buds and twigs are starting to harden off.
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An update on my cherry tree cuttings. The bigger one has been pulled and if anything it had one tiny hair root trying to form but I believe it was to far gone to ever make it. I have left the smaller cutting in the hopes that it will come on out…
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A week or two on the porch, then a protected spot outdoors. N side of a building for a week or two is good, E is ok. A make-shift cold frame will work too. Direct sun will burn the hell out of the leaves if they have not at least had good window light for a while.
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Thanks! They’ve had reasonably good window light. At least enough that they’re not leggy, but little enough that seedlings are leggy if that’s the only light.
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Planting before a couple of cloudy days seems to help my plants transition. Obviously the weather doesn’t always cooperate with that, but I can usually find a few cloudy days in the spring during the time frame I want to plant them out.
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Here are a couple of photos. It is pretty self-explanatory. I noticed roots pushing through the parafilm, so I am wondering if I can do without the sponges next time. If the parafilm holds enough moisture for the roots to push out into the hydrotom, I could simplify the process. Hydroton does not mold or grow gnats.
The coir fibers are from a cat knocking the whole business into a tub of cocopeat last week. They are the same cutting, but with some hydroton moved.You can dip the bottom of the pot in water once or twice a week, or you can put it on a capillary mat to keep it moist. I kept them in dark for 3 weeks at ~65F, before putting them near a West window. I did not feel like using the seedling mat on them.
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