I have had a clivia for about a year that I won at a Master Gardener meeting and it is potted in regular potting soil with some added perlite. It looks great, dark green leaves, nice fat roots peeking out of the bottom of the pot and even a bud just beginning to break out of the leaves. Can't wait to see it. I'm pretty sure it is the common orange color, but they are gorgeous. One day I would like to find a yellow one.

Maybe the fig roots are doing you a favor by sucking up the water from the leak, if there really is one. My neighbor had a drain pipe from his shower that unbeknownst to him became detached from the shower pan, so all the water from every time he took a shower was draining under the house into the crawlspace. It caused the soil to get so soggy that one end of his house sunk three inches, making his house unlevel, which cost him big bucks to fix. BTW, I have a Chinese Elm about 20 feet away from a rental house in the backyard that's roots grew under the house about 30 feet wide and came out another 15 feet in the front yard, for a total length of about 65 feet. My neighbor had a Eucalyptus that had roots 50 feet long that grew under the fence and were sucking water out of my garden.

I don't cut holes in my water bottle until the watering process begins, well after the roots develope. It helps retain whatever mositure there is from condensation that build up in the soiless mix from the heat of the sun.... You can see it on the edges of the clear plastic bottles...You can also see the roots develope over time, without ever having to give one drop of water, until it's time..I have yet to fail rooting any plumie in this fashion....:-) The holes are added to the bottles when it's time to water..

You can search here for either mine, or George Manders instructions on rooting. Granada roots extremely easy, as does Heirloom. I have not tried Red Masterpeice.