Great video Ben! Im so excited to hear you use Shungite water & write “Love” on the outside of your container. I did the rice/water experiment with my 10 yr old and although it may sound out there, it is sooo true! “Love” rice has remained white & beautiful while the “sad/helpless” container is literally black with rot 3 months later. So in other words, “Don’t forget to add the love figgers!” 😊

The beauty of this method, which you initially joked about as the "lasagna" method, is that by planting the cuttings horizontally, you are giving the future fig tree a much firmer base, as they do in construction, a more solid foundation, if you will... However, I would not place the cuttings so close together at the beginning, but leave serious space for each root to develop independently in "the lasagna pan"... Also, I would make a 1" long superficial, vertical, almost surgical incision (or slit) on one side of each of the final cuttings, barely involving the surface of the bark and the cambium cell layer (like a paper cut in your finger) and place that final fig cutting with this incision downwards... This would promote many more shootings in the rooting system and their chances to grab more substantially and heavily to their environment... And your chances to plant fig trees on steep hills... And avoid being washed up by rains... Just saying...

I will work at this ASAP. Thanks for sharing your good fig cuttings tutorial. :)

Awesome Ben! I'll give it a try.

Ben, Just watched your video and was surprised that you were able to root 2" long cuttings with only one node. I have learned so far that a cutting needs to have three or four nodes at least for a good chance of rooting. It would definitely save me some money if I could cut the expensive cuttings I bought into two or three pieces. With the thirty some cuttings you put in for rooting how many rooted that finally made it to healthy plants? Enjoy watching your fig videos; have learned a lot from your experience. Thanks.

Hi ben.. I'm from Indonesia. Your videos help me a lot.

Thanks Ben B! im always learning!

awesome video! I like the lasagna method I think ill try it for my first fig cuttings! I hope my cuttings have nodes as densely packed as yours do though (so many ive seen have 3 nodes spread over 8 inches unlike the 3 nodes in 2 inches yours seem to have)

Looks great ! Thanks Ben!

Wow looks simple enough! I'm going to try this. So once the leaves emerge do you take out and put them in individual pots?

I wish I saw this before purchasing $50 fig/pomegranate cuttings - they would send me moldy/brown cuttings. Thanks for the informative video. Stay safe!

It's really nice to see your fig cultivation. Is there a possibility of getting some cuttings?

Easy and simple to learn Germinating a fig from a sterm. I also found it interesting. What was the white stuff you use?

Great presentation! Thank you.

Interesting I will try it this week end.. Thank you...

こんなに短くカットしてしまっても発芽するパワーがあるのですね！ 今年買ったcuttingがあるのですが、この方法でやる勇気が… （笑）端っこが余ったら試してみたいです！

Looks great! What kind of water do you use?

Nice update Ben . Do you feed them ?

Nice video....But did you just water them once in 2 months, or did you water them often? Thanks,

At the start of the video you had them in an aluminum bin. But in the end they were in a plastic bin, did you transfer them at some point?

Great learning video Ben B! just do you have to keep all tray under the growing light all the time???

Ben, I just bought 3 Black Madeira cuttings from KK on Ebay. Would you recommend this method for these? Obviously I paid a premium for them and don't want to have them fail. I appreciate any advise.

Writing LOVE one my propagating cuttings 😊.

Show often do you water after the initial spritzing?

The secret is to keep the moist constant, room temperature, no direct sun-light and patience, nature will do its work.

Great video, Thanks for making it. How often did you water them and did you stick them under a light or just keep them dark for 2 months?

thanks for the video!!!

Hi Ben great video. I dont really care about getting the maximum amount out of cuttings so i am wondering what is the maximum size i can use to grow from a cutting? only asking is my neighbor is cutting down his fig tree as its too close to his house. Past couple years it has produce some amazing fruit so i want to get a few trees out of this before it goes! do you think i can propagate a big branch? like a metre or 2 in lenght?? thanks!

can I use this method for ficus elastica? its in the fig family right? I'm having a terrible time trying to root them

This is a unique method for rooting. Once the trees are ready to separate do you just place the original piece in the pot horizontally?

how sweet !!😊

hi great video thank you. you started the rooting in a tin foil tray_ lasagna tray, yet when you showed the tray 2 months later it was in a plastic tray. When did you change it or was that not the same stalks you started?

Do you have any cuttings you will part with? I sure would like to try . Thanks

Ben nice video instruction thank you. Just a question I see some people just dip cutting in water and seems like rooting nicely too. What's your opinion? I just purchase few cutting from ebay and they are on the way. I decide to use your method but just thinking if another easier way to do it. Thank you.

I just cut about 20 lbs of fig limbs from my friends tree. desert king. The only way I have really had any luck is planting them straight into the ground. Two foot long branches root for me. which means I get figs faster. should try it sometime.

what is your number one rooting technique? I'm going to try rooting cuttings for the first time. Thanks Ben!

during that 2 months time did you water it at all? was it keep near light?

Hi Ben when you initially sprayed them how do you know you put enough water? im a bit worried i put too much or too little haha i think i got the same tray as you at home. How much do you think you sprayed? thanks!

I want to know did you spray them during the germination time like you said they germinate in two months please reply

Brilliant

About what percent tend to take and root with this method?

When is the best time of year to take cutting off of an established Fig tree?

nice video

why does cutting them in 2 inch cutting cause more of a yield? Sorry im new to this!

how do you split them up into separate pots without hurting the roots?

great video....can you do fig cuttings any time of the yr

hii Ben b..i was a newbie in growing figs..ive a question for u..is really we can use anykind of soap or dishwash for brushing the cutting..and two month for waiting?or it just happen for certains variety of fig? nice kitchen table uve..love it..

Hello, something came on mine, you plant in an aluminium container . When you show us the new fig it is in a plastic container ???????

how come it's a different container on the last part of video?

Could you elaborate on the soil mixture used? Perlite? Mulch? Anything else?

washing/scrubing, is something i just didn,t do. maybe that is why success rate is low. seems like mold would develop. i thought it was the tab water. some bloggers do say use distilled water. i tried that and stell got mold.

I'm going to help a lady to prune her fig tree in exchange her cutting, if I'm doing this in Autumn, can I propagate them right away ?

With this method, some of your cuttings have only one node. If you have a cutting with only one node, do leaves and roots grow out of the same node?

nice method,what was the tamprature at that time

I noticed that some of the Fig Cuttings they sell on EBAY have one end WAXED. Do you need to remove the wax before trying to Root them.

Green on the inside??

Thanks for the video. BTW can I substitute the mulch with coco coir?

Recently purchased, on two separate occasions, cuttings off E Bay, with zero results, using different rooting methods.

Exhibit love with love

hi im 14 and i want to grow a fig tree. where do you recommend me being one and what type should i get

Help !!! I did 8 cuttings I got on eBay, waited 2 wks, unwrapped them this morning, and they're all MOLDY with no growth .

To root a figs cuttings you just need a half container with water and 1kg of brown sugar and drop the cuttings in...and wait 30 days and you will see lots of roots all over....easy

I approach fig cutting like circumcisions. Its cleaner and more appealing

that's going to be a lot of figs! grats I like using grow pebbles and perlite; rather than the mulch; because mulch can encourage molds or bacteria.. Best regards... oh! and change pH of water down to 6 or so; that helps too.

whats the next step?

It seems you put about 30 small cuttings in the tray and got 5-6 to root? Not amazing rate of success to me.

Do any one knows in ebay how sell these fig

Nice video. I like your method. Funny about the Emoto ideas. Of course, its not scientific. Emoto was personally invited to take the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge by James Randi in 2003, and would have received US$1,000,000 if he had been able to reproduce the experiment under test conditions agreed to by both parties. He did not participate, of course. In fact none of the supernatural claims of any party, ever--have ever been shown to be real. But as you say, it does not hurt. :)

“Love” you sure are superstitious.

thats not even the same container

Can get some fig cutting different kinds of . Hope the people has the trees of their own. Any one interested to give away.

อะไรขาวๆ

It like FAKE...