drasaid,
I noticed something similar in Round Rock. I lost the smaller cuttings but one of the 4" diameter knots is growing in a 3 gallon pot.
mrhappy

drasaid,

Cut all the figs OFF. It works the other way around.
Fruit is an energy sink - they will suck all the energy
from the twig, needed to produce roots.

You should be able to salvage some cuttings. Do a search
in forum about rooting green cuttings for more details.

Also, I would go back and ask the owner if he knows the
fig name, probably not, since he did not care for it,
but you'll never know...

Good Luck,
George (NJ).

drasaid,

Go back and ask if they've dug the stump/roots out, yet. If it is in place, you can dig it up and replant it.

~james

drasaid,

How could you accuse someone around Austin of being an IDIOT...HEHEHE It's a Texas thang!

Cecil
Elkhart TX

one piece wqs lost behind the sink. I found it a day later, after I had nabbed a small paperback called Great Gardening Ideas of The Eighties. Why I even bothered with such a dubious title . . . but in it was one idea of pure gold.
I had this little fig cutting. I also had instructions to make Wonder Water-boil plain water, don't shake it, and cool it down, then gently gently pour it over your plant. I put the fig bit in a Miller High Life bottle (label still on) and poured an inch of boiled but cooled water into the bottom. I religiously dumped it out and put more water on it every day, and the bottle dewed up on the inside.
Dang if the little cutting did not get nice warty protrubences on it that turned into - yes- nice white roots! I let it spring quite a few, then put less and less water on it every day. When it was just sitting in a damp spot in the bottle, I took it out and planted it and it is going great guns-has just put out a big leaf.
I may have something here. I am now trying it with some more, so I'll let you all know . . . .

If anyone needs help emptying Miller bottles to root their cuttings let me know. I'm equally proficient with Budweiser, Coors, import and craft brew bottles.

LOL, MrHappy; there are not THAT many idiots in Texas, or even in Austin!
Ox

Drasaid: Were the leaves still green and alive on these branches, or had the tree been cut a couple of days when you found it???? I've heard of graftwood being taken a couple of days after a tree was down, but no experience with cuttings. I believe I'd go ask for the stump if I wanted a tree.
Ox

Maybe he cut down the tree because the figs suck, or had you tried the figs from that tree before?

So you can grow a fig from a cutting using rooting hormone? Is anyone able to provide more information about how to do this?

I'm new to the fig world but I love figs :-)

Okay, first you need some fig cuttings. Ideally, you get them in the morning from a willing donor (or you wander the neighborhood looking for damaged limbs, branches sticking out in the street or over the path et al . . . this is not recommended. Best to stick a note in the mailbox asking is it Ok for you to nip a few branch ends? Offer to give them a couple of the 'children' you produce (if you are lucky, you'll be able to give them a different variety should you do this with several trees. Do keep track of what they are if that is what you want to do.)
You might also offer other plants, seeds, perennial divisions, firstborn male children, whatever you have spare.
Now you have some legal branch ends (I find they work best.) Keep them in a plastic bag with a wet towel until you get home.
Now, at home, put a kettle on to boil, and cop a few bottles from the recycle bin. Keeping track of the alcoholics in your neighborhood will make this easier if you don't generate enough Miller High Life containers on your own.
Rinse them. When the water boils let it sit until it is not quite so hot and GENTLY pour about two inches in each bottle. The idea is not to let any air bubbles form, no shaking, just flat flat water. Sit the bottles off to cool further, and get your cutters.
Wash them with alcohol or a ten to one dilute bleach solution (Ten parts WATER to one part BLEACH). Do not let your cutters get contaminated again. Be a real nit about this. It makes a difference.
Put a bowl of water in the sink. You could use some of the boiled water but I do not know if it will make a difference.
Now for your rooting hormone. You can use the gooey gel sort or the dust or the liquid : whatever you do put a little in a container and use that. You do not want to contaminate your hormone by dunking a cutting in it.
Just put some on a saucer and use it up.
Grab your first cutting. Hold the cut end under water in the bowl, and with your nippers, cut diagonally BELOW a bud. I like to have branch ends as there is always a nice bud at the tip, but try for about three below that one.
Now you have a nice diagonal cut. Dip it in the rooting hormone, then set it aside.
Repeat. Keep different figs apart, the Brunswick over here, the Alma over there, and give some of the Panachee, Italian Honey, and Petite Negri to me (I don't have those.)
When you have done this to all of your figs, put them into the bottles (GENTLY! NO BUBBLES!)
Stick the bottles on a windowsill and wait . . . . I like to dump the water out every couple of days and put more boiled and cooled water in.
The little dots and bumps on the sticks will start to poke out a bit, like adolescent zits. Then they will get white. Then they will come out and be roots. ( Replace the fig cutting bottle and jump up and down at this point.)
Let the roots get about an inch long, then VERY GENTLY put them in a container (a DEEP container you can cut off of them later, or gently pull them out of). Push soil about the fragile roots and water, with the boiled cooled water if you like (again, I don't know if it helps but hey it is cheap.)
Some sticks will die but I have had pretty good luck. The baby fig trees are popular with kids who enjoy checking out their growth daily.
I did this this summer, twice (I have my second batch sprouting white roots now.)
So that is it. It is not that hard, if you follow the rules; keep the nippers clean, boil the water and be gentle with it so you get no air, and treat the little treelets with tender care. Good luck.