Summer Fig Tree Propagation | Rooting Fig Cuttings in a State of Active Growth
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2020
- We're going to do some summer fig tree propagation. Is rooting fig cuttings while in an active state of growth even possible? I get asked this question all the time so I thought I'd just do an experiment myself. What I found along our fig rooting journey shocked me and I need to share it with you. For anyone who will be moving or has limited access to a fig tree during the growing season, this is the fig propagation video for you. You're going to not only see what I'd do to propagate figs during an active state of growth with 100% success rate but I'm going to show you something that I previously thought wouldn't be practical at all. Turns out I'm wrong. Enjoy!
Mike Kincaid's Fig Rooting Video: • How to Root Fig Cuttin...
Dan Foster's Fig Rooting Videos:
Part 1: • Sticking Fig tip cuttings
Part 2: • Rooting Fig Tip Cuttin...
Part 3: • Rooting Fig tip cuttin...
Part 4: • Rooting Fig Tip Cuttin...
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Have you used that Dan Foster technique on other plants, ?
Do you plant them in the ground once they get like this or wait till they go dormant?
As a farmer, I love farming and I love everyone who helps promote and post videos about farming in general.
On this occasion, I encourage you, my friend, and I thank you for this good initiative and I support you to continue on this path.
greeting from Morocco.
Thank you, we are kindred spirits.
I love how optimistic gardeners are. See that teeny tiny bit of green? ❤️
We just can't help it!
Always an entertaining session on this channel. I wish I had a boss like you. I worked in a garden center with very very few people who were excited about plants and nature. I have to visit garden centers and nurseries weekly and most owners, managers and employees don't know and don't care to learn more.
Guess what?? I did it too... rooted fig tip cuttings. You just have to use rooting hormone, root riot plugs and a humidity dome... That's it and in two weeks without fail it has roots.... by the third week, you can pot them up and watch them grow... keep under humidity for a little while longer gradually weaning them off and you've got a new tree.. I have done it successfully 6 times now. T works like a charm.. And thanks for sharing Dan's work with us. That is the sign of a true professional...
Congratulations! Yes, I love Dan's videos on the subject and always try to point you to good info.
Yup I’m doing this currently
Hey Man, we appreciate this Vedic as it opened my eyes to a lot of different new things and the slit lines you made made feel bad that I did not do when I planted my cuttings but you showed us that it was not necessary, I feel much better now, and we appreciate you sharing those results with us. you are AWESOME :)
finally, someone who gets as excited about rooting as i do.
It’s the best!
I just love your videos! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and your passion and your love of the experiment to discover how things happen, how things can be done- and to share that for the benefit of others! Such a wonderful gift!!!! Thank you thank you.❤
Thank you for such a kind comment, Melissa! I love making these videos for you.
You get so excited and that is why us gardeners do what we do. It is so much fun. Thank you.
Yes it is!!!
You're smarter to making more add roots, let growing more and more plants
.good job, Mike!👍👍😉🪴🪴
the closer to spring we get the more i want to binge watch gardening/farming videos. so happy i came across this channel. so informative 😊
Haha, me too! I always get super excited for spring this time of year.
You are awesome! I really enjoy your videos! I get so pumped up! Thank you for the close up shots that are focused in great🎉
I'm so glad you enjoy them, Gerri! You're welcome for all the close ups, that's the good stuff! Have fun in your garden this summer!
I love your videos and how enthusiastic you are about what you do. My mouth dropped open when you said the other figs went to the compost heap. Poor babies. I can't wait to try this method. Thanks Mike
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it, Chantel.
Wow. I am so amazed. I grew 2 fig trees from cuttings last year. Thanks to you!! 😉
I love figs!!!
Awesome!
Hey Mike this was awesome! Thank you for showing us the possibilities of rooting summer figs. Super helpful, when I got some cuttings earlier this March, I couldn’t find any info on if rooting was possible during growing season, so I gave it a go and tried it myself this year on some cuttings I started rooting in a bag with a wet paper towel wrapped around the lower stems. It’s true they do work during summer. I had a lower percentage taking root one transferee to soil (presuming from transplant shock) but they still worked.
I love your dedication to the science behind it, thank you for being so positive all the time!
Thanks for watching and I'll glad you learned from the video! Have fun in the garden.
“He FIGured it out”,- haha I see what you did there
He sure did, lol
I admire your FIGurative speech
Love your videos. Keep going man. Very good stuff.
So after watching your videos today, I cut my air layers and potted them up. Good root systems. Took all the wood I trimmed (3 varieties of figs) and set them to root. Thanks for the video!
Awesome! I've got a few air layers going myself.
Mike your information is helping everyone like me".Thanks again.
Do glad to hear that, Sanjana! Glad you enjoy the videos.
I learned so much from your fig cutting propagation,outstanding ,thanks a lot
I'm happy to hear that, Adeodato!
"Why are we struggling and suffering?"
Hilarious and made my day, thanks!
Haha, glad to entertain!
Hey Man, we really appreciate what you showed us on this Video. I felt bad for not making the slits at the ends, but seeing that it did not matter, made me feel much better. I brought some Fig cuttings from my dad's house that we have been enjoying for decades, and I can not wait to see the results. rooting powder and some water and you made it simple and to the point. I will post pictures of the before and after. God Bless
I’d love to hear how it goes. Good luck!
Wow, thanks for this video, love all your vids! I'm now excited to watch those Dans vids. This is my 2nd year growing a small amount of figs, so exciting!
Figs are definitely fun and exciting to grow. Have fun growing and experimenting with them, Aimee!
The unions/joints (nodes) will generally be the site for both branching growth and root growth. The bottom of your cutting is right at a node site. This is likely the reason for the roots developing there as well as at the node just above (versus along the internode).
Good timing. I've been working the last few days with my Fig Bonsais. They are looking fabulous Thank you.
Awesome, I'm thinking about making a fig bonsai too!
@@MikeKincaid79 I gathered that. Soooo fun. and amazing. :-)
THANK YOU for your informative and FUN videos!! I've sent lots of folks to your page!!!!!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it and am glad you enjoy the videos!
Love your energy mate. Thanks for this wonderful knowledge,
My pleasure!
WTFig is where it’s at! Thanks for your vids, Mike!
It's a great group!
Gorgeous juicy roots! 😍 Thanks for the education.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video and no need to apologize for the compost...Educational!
Thanks, Luis!
Your excitement about the roots is over-the-top! I get it! It's a farmer thing. Non-farmers wouldn't understand. :)
They probably wouldn't but then it's my job to help infect them and get them excited.
Awesome cuttings! Super easy too, and I will probably go root cutting crazy outside soon. Thanks Mike.
Have fun, Darla!
@@MikeKincaid79 👍
Mike I like that your not afraid to propagate Large Fat healthy cuttings.👍👍👍👍👍
Everyone else I've watched propagate twigs!!!
Awesome job😀👍
Yes, they're the best kind of cuttings. I was thinking about you yesterday while propagating some figs. I think you would do better with the really fat cuttings because they are a bigger reservoir for holding moisture in them and not as fickle as the skinny cuttings.
Thank you very much man, you are doing a awesome work with this channel. ✨👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks, Andre, I love making these videos for you.
Mike, you are da bomb! I love your fig videos! Who knew you could root in the summer?
Thanks! I even learned something this year when I saw Dan's videos!
Thank you, Mike. Great information.
You're very welcome!
MIKE just subscribed to DAN,s channel,, thanks for the tips, the way DAN did his cuttings i think that would work also for house plant cuttings,,, nothing more exciting then to expierment with plants
No problem. I was in the middle of filming this one when I stumbled across Dan's videos. Sure did poke a hole in my theory, lol.
WOW!!! By 11 minutes into the video there's all that grOwth! I'm excited Mike! I have a friend with an old fig tree that grows the most delicious black figs unlike any other fig I've ever tasted! I covet that tree. I'm going to ask if I can have cuttings and I will do this. Thank You Mike for all your work and sharing! Stay Blessed.
Wow! That was so generous of you to mention Dan Foster. Blessings all over You and Family!
You can do it, Linda! I'm excited for you. It's always fun when the plant has meaning to you and you can preserve it for yourself and others.
I’m SO glad I’ve found this video!! I have a fig tree that I need to cut down due to location. It hasn’t fruited in two years and I thought it was dead but it’s not! I took hella cuttings from it and was wondering if I could do this and be successful! I have 1-3 year growth that I’m going to chop up and pot up!! I love your enthusiasm bc that’s how I feel too!!
Glad you found it too. Good luck with your project!
This was so helpful to me! Thankyou!
I'm a new subscriber!
You're welcome and thanks for subbing!
This was great Mike thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Yayyy!!! Exciting! I have2 fig trees, so Im going to do cuttings now!!Thankyou..Cheers from Australia..😁
Awesome! Have fun with it, Melanie.
Great video Mike.
Thanks, John!
Lol it’s funny that u made this video because earlier this summer my grandmother and I planted a fig tree that I had grown out in the yard. It’s a white Marseille and it was the only one I had of that variety. Well when we went to plant it I had no choice but to cut a couple of branches off. They were still green but I didn’t want to waste them just in case something happened to the tree so I went ahead and planted 1 then put the other 2 cuttings in the fridge for about a week then I planted them. It wasn’t 3 weeks until all of them had big ole leaves and new green branches of they’re own!! It’s crazy how fast they rooted and are still growing compared to the usual brown cuttings!! I knew that it wouldn’t hurt for me to try and root them especially since I wouldn’t have any if something happened to the tree we planted. Luckily it’s doing great too, so it all worked out thankfully!! Also something I think is very cool is that as they’re growing they are lignifying!! Now if only I could be as lucky with my lavender which I can’t seem to keep healthy!! 😂
Great job on the green fig cuttings. Lavender is an easy one. Keep trying and you'll get it.
Great Video Mike!
I have a fig that has branches in the way and needs to be pruned. Time to try some summer fig propagation.
There ya go, Steven! I'm doing some of the same around here right now.
Awesome Mike😊🇨🇦
Thanks so good to know that one can root fig cuttings in summer
Phoenix AZ
omg that is amazing. Right now im waiting to open mine. I put them in the plastic bag. I see green leaves. Im so happy.
Wonderful
Nice method, thanks for share how to Summer Fig Tree Propagation, I 👍am still learning, thanks for share
You are very welcome
I love your video and explain so well.Thank you so much
You are so welcome!
Very informative, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it, Chrystal!
It is a crazy thing that you put out a video about figs. We have a Brown Turkey Fig tree that has about 10 new limbs at the base. We are going to try propagating them. Thanks for sharing your information. Rhonda
Have fun with it!
Out of all your videos I've seen the fig vids are my favorite. I just wish I could keep figs here, in the last 5 years someone stole my 4 potted figs, I think for the nice pots they were in. The next figs I get are going in the cheapest and ugliest pots I can find.
Plant them in the ground and see if they can steal those, lol.
Kitty litter bins :D
Grow bags
I tried this with a heavily overgrown fig tree a friend in Baltimore has. Two and a half weeks later we have growth on all nine cuttings. No rooting hormone. Just cut up and shoved in used dirt from last year. Segments come from this year as well as the last three years. Thanks for the confidence to ignore the sites that said this wouldn't work.
Glad to help, and even more glad to hear of your success! Great job!!!
Love watching your vids. Became a member of your page propagatinglikeapro. And i purchased my first hoop house last week for my bday next month and my wife bought me some hydrendras and a rodie today.
Awesome, Joseph. You're on your way!
Love it!
I love your enthusiasm and it has got me going. I have 2 different kinds of pine trees propagating, and I have started my garden seeds inside, the problem is, growing season is about 2 months away! 😂 hahaha lol 🤣😂
It's hard, we just want to get started but the weather is taking its time, lol.
You are fantastic(oh regarding gardening that is).
Excellent very educations your videos. Thanks
Glad you like them, Muhammad!
Wow, this is amazing! Very inspiring, imma do this. First I gotta find a 🌳 :)
That's the spirit, Maggie!
I recently rooted 5 cole de dame noir from an online fig nursery and they all rooted beautifully despite our triple digit weather. I also rooted some from my in the ground fig tree and they also rooted.
that's awesome, Gilda! I love that variety just because of the leaf pattern. It's beautiful. I actually have an air layer going on mine right now.
Hi Mike, I am a vocational skills teacher in Oregon, and an obsessive gardener. Love your videos and your energy, which I believe will keep my students engaged. I have a student who wants to propagate her favorite apple tree, and I plan to have her watch your fig tree videos as they are the closest I can find on your channel. Do you ever do apples or plums?
Thanks so much, Kate, and I'm glad to hear that you enjoy the videos. I recommend grafting apples, although you can root them. I do have a video about grafting them: ruclips.net/video/AEWcib0GN_w/видео.html Good luck to your student!
I am actually eating a Brown Turkey Fig right now. So sweet!
Cool, sounds delicious.
Great video!!!!
Thanks!!
I live in an area with lots of fig trees everywhere but I don't have any. I went to a garden center to buy one and they were all in such bad shape because of the heatwave and neglect but were still selling for 28 euros ! NOW I'm off to the field with some secateurs and will try to make some. I potted up some rose cuttings after seeing your video but I didn't protect them from the sun and heat enough, I should have put them on the north side. I saved one which is doing great, thanks.
Yep, save that money and root your own!
i can't to see ya tomorrow on this youtube so i can watching you i love ya mike today i mowned my big back yard it was very hot to working hard my mom helps me some finshed up love David
It may be a day or 2 but glad you're enjoying the vids.
Another great video! Johnny's quiet.
Thanks Nick, Johnny is really quiet cause he's nowhere around. Henry is the new rooster.
thanks you Mike love David
Awesome advise
Glad it was helpful, Christine!
I am going to do this thanks for showing me how to
Have fun, Julie!
you make the best video, thank you mam.
I really appreciate your support, Mohammed!
Very easy to grow up fig trees, and very easy to make jam from their fruits.
I have done several in the summer like that with no problems!
I love these figs!
@@MikeKincaid79 Me too.
The coffee is talking 😂 I'm using that Mike 👋
I need to cut back, lol.
Excellent!
Thank you! Cheers!
Last week I ordered 6 Strawberry Verte cuttings. They were cut just before shipping. Doing the fig pop method, I started seeing green the next day. 5 or 6 days in now, one has a leaf the size of a quarter and all the others are starting to open. Keeping them outside in a greenhouse. Going to be a frost tonight so they are coming inside. Amazing growth.
Great job. That’s a nice growing variety too. My in ground Strawberry Verte is vigorous.
Awesome! Those look amazing! I did some a little over a month ago. I actually have a video of them on my channel. But it is kinda just be taking them and the result. Not much information in it though. Some if them were green wood. Some might've been 3 year old wood. I didn't use any rooting hormone, never have. I just cut a branch off and chopped it up into pieces 😂
I'm gonna go watch those videos now
Thanks for another great and very informative video!
Glad you enjoyed it, Jacob, I'll have to check yours out.
@@MikeKincaid79 thanks!
I upload so much you might have a hard time finding it. The easiest thing to do would be to go to my playlists and there is one titled "Figs 2020" and the video is Summer Fig Cuttings
Hey Mike. I have been watching you for a very long time. I have been trying to get the nerve to ask you about sending me some of your Japanese Maple seeds. I have fallen in love with this tree and I asked on facebook just like you said to for someone who has any Japanese Maple trees to either send me some or let me come get some in return for a little money or some work or some of the seedlings and so far nothing and it's been a month and a half. So I figured the only way I would ever get any was to ask the pro. I went out and bought a tent and a Marshydro grow light because of your review on it though I had to buy rhe one without a dimmer because the other one was out of my budget. Great videos. I could watch them all the time. In fact I kinda do. I am trying to start a Maple tree farm. Advice and info. as well as plants,cuttings and seed are more than welcome. Great show keep up the good work. Mark.
Thanks, Mark, glad you enjoy the videos. Unfortunately, I just don't have enough seeds to go around and I get hundreds of requests for them. Do you live in an area where people grow Japanese maples? If so, just knock on some doors and ask people if you can pick the seeds. If not, you might want to consider if they'll grow in your area. Have fun with the light and tent, I know you'll be happy with them.
Mike, nature doesn't need help! Cool! Its the middle of the video. Hugs
Sure doesn't.
I just saw that I didn't finish my comment....😂😂. I wanted to say that I couldn't wait until the end of the video ( that is way I said that is the middle of the video). Lol
That's so nice, I can learn many things from your videos....hope you can give me some ideas...thank you so much
Glad you can learn from them. That's what they're there for. Have fun in the garden!
I hope when I start my urban farming channel, that I can exude as much enthusiasm as you!
You'll do just fine, Shannon! Don't be anybody but you and just do what you love. I watch plenty of channels where the guy or girl doesn't get as excited as I do and I love their channel all the same. Just be you.
I am brand new to fig cuttings. I decided to grow the roots in water, then transfer into pots. Because I just needed to see the roots start growing. Also. I didnt know that “green” or knewer cuttings is not the usual parts people cut to grow. So I have 3 greenish cuttings with roots growing. I am super excited about if. The type of fig is LSU Gold. They are soooo delicious.
Awesome! I don't have that variety yet but I hear most of the LSU figs are great.
@@MikeKincaid79 The LSU Gold is very good. It it huge too. Almost the size of a plum
Wow very beautiful 🤩
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow. Thankful for learning about this. Will take cuts from now on from trees that will be taken down in my city. Peace :)
Have fun!
yes! gargantuan roots i like it thx
The área where the leaf came off is called leaf scar fyi... love your videos!
I love the way you make your garden roots grow deep. Sambath in berthoud Colorado. Do figs grow in Colorado.
I'm not as familiar with the winter temps in Colorado but my figs survive 12 degree temps here. and grow beautifully every summer.
Great video! I started five Chicago Hardy from sticks smaller than yours, and now I have five beautiful babies that are 1 ft. tall! I didn't slice mine. 💚🌱 I started mine in February!
That is awesome!
Love your channel Mike and the information you put out. My neighbor has a fig tree and I am going to get some clipping off of it to start my own. My question is, what type of material do I plant the wood clippings in that will give me the best chance for them to root? I will be ordering some rooting powder as you listed in your list above.
I use fine fir bark because it's a fantastic rooting medium and is a plentiful resource in my area. Sand will work well too.
Your video was so worth watching! Informative and entertaining! My question is how often should it be watered while it's in the pot?
Depends on the soil. I watered once every couple weeks in the beginning and eventually every other day as it got hot. I made a recent video answering your question in more detail.
Thanks dude 👍
No problem 👍
I have 4 out of 5 fig twigs that busted out with the leaves and two of them are well established with branch off activity and huge leaves going on now. #5 has no sign of budding yet but I'll not give up on it. I didn't slice the rooting ends of them or even use any Clonex root starter gel on any of them since I didn't have any last October when I started the project. I'm VERY happy with the results though. They are growing so fast now and I started giving them Monty's Plant Vantage Premium Growth (8/16/8) with every watering. What a fun time I had with this 'project' and it made my long and cold Rocky Mountain winter (8000+ feet in elevation) much more bearable, watching daily to see those tiny buds finally turn green. Chicago Hardy variety.
You hit the nail on the head with the winter project comment. Sure does brighten up the cold months.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you Mike, and thanks again for your well made, informative and up beat, funny videos. Keep 'em coming!
Thank you.
You're welcome Cheryl.
Maybe Mike it was that the slices didn’t pass through the Cambian layer. That’s why those slices look like they’re healing, except for the ones that actually cut past the cambium layer.
Mike, I do like your show very much because the information you provided has helped me to get my own fig cuttings started. I was able to root cuttings the size that you’re doing currently or I should say demonstrating currently. Thank you again for all content that you share.
No problem Jay! Glad you enjoy the videos and have had success with figs.
Thank you good video
Glad you enjoyed it
This is very exciting.. I have at least three neighbors with fig trees.. dun DUN DUNNN. err Lol. I'll be asking for cuttings 🤔😉.
Good idea, lol.
That’s a beaut colda don der don 😎
hi' beautiful video thank you for sharing like big
Thanks, Ang!
This is funny. I never knew you could use hard wood. I've always only used first year growth, because that's what I was taught. I use root starter powder, stick them in a jar of water. Thank you for this knowledge. I'm going to try it your way. Ps. You have a much better success rate.
Glad you're learning from the video. I've been doing this almost 2 decades and have many videos for you to learn from. Welcome to the channel and have fun propagating plants!
I dont used the root hormone in my cuttings and always get to grow
Yeah, they don't really need it, just added insurance.