I've mostly just layered figs, and that mostly works great for me, but I had some success rooting cuttings in a sealed plastic bag with a damp towel at about 65-70 degrees -- that was the warmest spot I could find -- and then planting directly into a nursery bed in not-too-heavy ground in early spring. It seemed to take forever, and I had a fairly low percentage take, but it seemed like a good starting point. I started to try the same thing again this year, but I realized I had a cheap egg incubator that I could use to keep the cuttings warmer, so I put a sealed bag of cuttings in there with temp at about 80-85, and I'm getting rapid mold growth. Any advice on what I can do with what I've got? As far as potential media I've got sand, compost, native soil, pine bark (that I could probably find some way to crush or grind up)... What methods should I consider?

And a tangential question: can I use hydrogen peroxide to clean the mold off my cuttings?

Rapid mold growth is probably from being to moist. I start mine directly in cups and wring almost all the water out of the 50/50 perlite/soil mix. I usually don't need to water again until I see roots in the cup.

I got to wondering, though, if I'm not going to buy special materials if I wouldn't be better off just rooting cuttings in the ground somehow. I was thinking maybe I could even find a way to stick them diagonally so that their roots would be inside a cold frame that would warm up during the day but the exposed tips would be exposed to the colder outside air.