Jose, I guess we could start calling you the BIg root man

HAHAHEHE

Cecil

Is it rooting with roots or making your own suckers? Whatever anyone would call it, its genius.

Thisisme, these are all roots. These were root tips that were pruned off. When I got this tree some roots (1-2) were about 6" while the rest were about 3" long. I pruned the roots to a pretty fan shape and essentially kept the clippings, and put them in a very light potting soii.

I guess the answer to your question,is yes, both.

loslunasfarms,
Guess (real) roots DO leaf after all; thanks!
A very big fig potential...
George (NJ).

So far, it looks like vermiculite is my best root growing media. Potting mix is too dense and damp, and i get a lot of root rot. Will see in a few more days. Also, I use rootone, which contains a fungicide as well, 'may be more important than even the root hormone?'

Boiz,

I think that saying the potting mix is do dense and damp depends on the mix. I have used MG potting soil and found it is too damp for inital rootings. I use UPM instead have not every had that problem. The UPS stays nice and spongy, thus not dense, and with just enough water it is very light and damp, thus making my roots just awesome.

I was moving these little trees to a larger pot so here his an updated photo of the small Italian fig trees from my rooting experiment:

loslunasfarms, did any of your roots have unusual characteristics (buds) from which the differentiation took place?

Elder:

Not that I could see, they were just chopped roots from the bottom of the rooted cutting given to me. I root prune as a habit because they the rooted cutting fits better in the pots and they seem to grow better later.

Update:

One of the trees dies from fungus gnats, but here is the other roarin and screamin with growth. Hard to believe just a few months ago it was a few inches tall but now is 1.5 feet tall.

JBS
The roots Lou NE Pa sent me I wasn't successful with!

It is something I probablly didn't do right!

I have a LSU Gold fig plant that I pulled out of the pot just a while ago, saw a nice fat white root, snipped the thing off at about 2.5" put it in moist UPM, then layed it horizontally in a small tray with a vented lid on it, then I put it on my computer tower where it will be nice & cozy.
I hope it works this time, but if it don't, I will keep trying.
Thanx for the update.
Cecil

Cecil,

I put them in fluffed UPM what was slightly damp. THe UPM was crumbled on the rooted cuttings. I didnt have to water them fro about 3 weeks as I kept the container a plastic bin I used for propagation.

JBS
That is just exactly what I have did ! this time, the tray has some drain holes in the bottom & I punched 4 holes that is the size of a 16 penny nail in the lid!
Do you think that will do it?, or should I close the holes in the lid?

Here is one of the trees about 6" tall. It is getting shipped to a good friend and I bare rooted it for shipping. It had rooted pretty well. Not bad considering it started as a 4" length of root with a thickness of spaghetti.

GREAT read, very interesting!

loslunasfarms,
im curious , after putting roots in contaners were they under a light in a window with light or what type of lighting were they givind. Also in my search on meristems which contains aall the cells for plant growth and cannot really be seen with our eyes unless under magnifaction they reside in the bus part of fig tree, but i ran across something that said they also are at the ends of roots but usually cause of there size get damaged easily, im not saying but its quite possible this is how your just might have developed. I might try this its another interesting thing to do for the winter months. Thanks for shareing your information.
Martin

Martin, they had.a full days worth of indirect light. Let me if you need more info.

Loslunas farms,
thanks, i tries about 6 to 10 in different ways i have a couple ups so there in there like a plant and a couple of plastic bins one froma dremel tool assortment and one from a bakery all washed and had very hot water put in to help clean more, so ones in tray are sideways. Iy would be great it i get 1 or 2 i would be tickled .
Martin

I really need to check my spelling better to make it easier to read, what i forgot to mention was that i put them except 2 trays under grow light the other 2 are in warm laundry for now with cover on and i misted not watered the soil, time will tell and i will update with excitement if anything happens.