It's DEFINITIVE. Water your fig cuttings EVERY SINGLE day for success. Experiment 2 update.
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An update on Experiment number 2, and I am calling it. Watering your fig cuttings every single day is the fastest route to success. Rooting your fig cuttings in plain water also appears to be more effective than intermittent watering. I belive that by increasing your watering schedule you will reduce the number of failed fig cuttings.
A quick mention on the progress of my Bordisotte Negra Rimada and another expensive cutting called Lebanese Black.
A near-to-final look at Experiment number 1, which I am calling as inconclusive.
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Those figs in water are amazing ❤️
I think I’ll go and water my fig cuttings again now 🙃
Haha! Excellent plan!
I believe the daily watering oxygenates the roots better Nathan, the pure water of course has a high oxygen content as long as it's changed regularly before it starts to go stale. I'm glad you tried the pure water method, it always worked well for me. It also allows you to see that the roots develop up and down the whole stem and not just at the nodes 😉
I think very possible, I also suspect that brand new cuttings are entirely inefficient at drawing water up, and by having access to consistent abundant water they can suck it up easier and keep the moisture within the cutting high
I stopped using a sterile mixture. I now use mushroom soil, compost and perlite. A small amount of water once a week. Nothing rots everything grows.
I have moved away from sterile mixes too, I think that some organics really help, and require much less arificial fertiliser later on
at the beginning, I water cuttings everyday. After I put them(with a few roots) into another medium, I only water them when the medium is gonna dry out. I use a different medium. After those cuttings all have a green shoot over 25 cm, I do water them twice a day because they absorb more water.
I think this is a good approach, there isn't one size that will fit all forever and we must adapt as the plant changes and grows
So some cuttings you just put in water, no hormone at all with any cuttings? How long did you have them in water to root? How big of a cutting?
You can check out how they were planted here th-cam.com/video/9PNDhkovetw/w-d-xo.html. Essentially though, straight in water no treatment.
I have killed a many of fig cutting by over watering. I have found that you will get a lot of top growth but not always good root development.
My money is on the 2 dryer cuttings.
Keep us informed on your end results.
I have updated a couple of times, this is the most recent th-cam.com/video/dmUY7PGPITc/w-d-xo.html
Sir, your experiment encourages me a lot to water my fig cutting daily during propagation.. may I ask, what type of soil media do u used for such cuttings??
I did water propagation with fig cuttings, but somehow it doesn't work with every variety. Having tried on varieties red Libya, khurtmani, tena & also cap terra hava, & they all became soft & mushy at the bark & such barks year off.. have u tried water propagation with different varieties??
I have only ever water propagated the experiment you watched, otherwise always rooted in soil. The mixes I use a very airy and do not retain a lot of water. They are a combination of pine bark chips, perlite, potting mix and have some other little bits and pieces thrown in, if you look in this video I show it a little th-cam.com/video/ond6K2yx9FA/w-d-xo.html.
Great experiment! Can you tell us how the cuttings have progressed after your last update 4 months ago? I want to know if all that watering caused any rot further down the line. Obviously, increased humidity helped root growth. However, I believe continuous watering will eventually rot the cuttings even if they formed good initial roots and leafing out. Just curious how the 6 cuttings are doing now. Thanks!
In the end, both of the cuttings watered less frequently did not root out or put leaves on at all. The other 4 did fine until I let the water run down in the cups, and the two watered daily are both still alive and doing fine!
Then I don’t understand why 90% of my cuttings rotted using the fig pot method? The medium was wet…
I’m confused.
Over the longer period I found that there was higher and higher attrition, until some even very well established cuttings started failing for little reason. I think the answer is fungus gnats. My theory goes that the cuttings love being flushed with fresh water every day, but it also produces a perfect environment for the gnats to breed, especially in a contained tent like I use. At the start before the gnats have a foothold, the cuttings thrive, and then by the end of the season the gnat larvae just do too much damage. It could be other pathogens as well that arent present, or are in low amounts at the start and then get established, and wet soils are loved by moulds and gnats and a whole bunch of other nasties.
Outside of this, it could be related to soil medium or something else. This year I successfully rooted around 70-80 cuttings and lost I would guess another 20 or so.
Some other cuttings might be variety based as well, I bought 4 cuttings of bordisotte negra rimada and every one of them failed, and it might have been a sick plant from the seller or just a variety that didnt take to cuttings very well.
I recall rooting plants in years past having a solid 90-95% success rate, and repeating this year starting off well, at about the same rate of success and then having it decrease as the season progressed until the failure rate was closer to 25-30%
Sscrp ❤️
$200 i was feeling bad for paying. 30$😂
The thinner cuttings don’t do as well
I agree, cuttings that are thin are the worst. I was very surprised this year with short cuttings though. Short cuttings that are of a good diameter almost seemed to outperform longer cuttings....
Still shocked every time I see how many figs you have 😂
There is only more to come 😂