You will have better success with air layers. Since they are coming out of the ground, you have it easy. Bury the bottom three or four inches of the new shoots. Keep the soil moist. Probably best if you also mulch heavily to help retain moisture. Dig the soil back in a couple months and you will find new roots. At that time, cut off each shoot below the new roots and transfer into one gallon pots filled with well drained potting soil.

I have a unknown from 10k south of bolonia that just past its third season and just gave me 1 ripe, all the rest fell off in similar way, they turned a dark reddish purple, started to shrivel and when just touched they fell 1 by 1. Late in season one swelled overnight and i said to myself this 1 is going to make it actually swelled unlike all the others i gave a couple more days and observed it as it turned purple and then i cut to see inside and ate it was sweet tasting but still to early to tell only 1 , so i think maybe some tree's might take longer , also the root system needs cutting bad with new soil , will see in its fourth season and post, here is a few pictures of the figs, the one ripe i anxiously ate last season before i could take a picture. Martin

This is an example of your situation, from my kitchen window on 7.3.14 Planted 7.3.13 at 7 1/2 feet away from house wall. This is Zelkova serrata Musashino columnar Japanese Elm. It has tripled in height, tripled in size today, 2017 less 4 years in the ground: trunk diameter of 6 inches. Very happy tree. This faces West with the sun swinging in from the left of the picture at high noon. The house acrost the way can see into my kitchen and the privacy is already there, the light under the canopy from this tree is gentle and eventually the crown is so high you can see under it and behind it (patience). Also self pruning thinning the under canopy. Very strong tree with only one, newly grown 4 foot broken branch facing all the storms oncoming wind. The growth once established in zelkovas is amazing. I kept the branches faces the wall well trimmed, and none touch the wall except this spring it exploded with growth. It has adapted to the early day shade to not become columnar at all, instead a very wide berthing area branching, the birds love it too! It was a 5 gallon potted tree from the HD, and i cut the bottem 2 inches off using a saw, and slit the sides of the mixture with roots, i swore i killed it. These both are bad pictures but you get the idea. Hamilton Ohio Z6b

im glad you learned.. in the other post.. how to reply to your own post... and get all the pix in one post ... perhaps you could now link this to that .. ken