Fig Root Sensitivity to Transplant Shock?

[ktrain]

Do you wrap your summer air layers in aluminum foil? Ours root easily and fast in the summer here, but the soil mix can dry out on you if you do not time removal right.

Yea, gotta try to reflect that heat away.
I still do a few but more are done before the heat.
We usually have pretty good runs of near or at 100f...it's brutal. lol

 

[SpiritFarmVa]

We get pretty hot too, but it isn’t the same. We are not as consistently hot. We do tend to get breaks from the heat.

 

[Figless]

That was a 2 node cutting of DLR aswell haha that’s why it’s so tiny but it made for a great tree so far

LOL I've never done it, not a two-node cutting. My hats off to you. By the time I noticed I've lost a node, I've lost a cutting

 

[Kid Fig]

I find them more fragile when the rooting medium is quite different to what they are used to.
Say going from water rooting to soil.
Or even one type of soil to another.
Temps, or how wet or dry it is.
Or a young tender age.

Once they have that many roots, I say they should be tough enough to handle a little rough housing. lol

I agree - when up potting the new medium will have about 1/3 of the same mix of its original rooting medium (which is perlite and coco coir) to help it adjust and I'll try and match the moisture level (ofvthe new.medium) to the attached rootball soil.

 

[ktrain]

I agree - when up potting the new medium will have about 1/3 of the same mix of its original rooting medium (which is perlite and coco coir) to help it adjust and I'll try and match the moisture level (ofvthe new.medium) to the attached rootball soil.

Yea man, it's all about keep the stress level as low as possible.

 

[TorontoJoe]

Do you wrap your summer air layers in aluminum foil? Ours root easily and fast in the summer here, but the soil mix can dry out on you if you do not time removal right.

I've always wrapped them in foil for no other reason that I've always just wrapped them in foil... just seems to be the way everyone does it. I don't know if something that reflective is specifically necessary.... I imagine a light coloured rag would work just as well... but I think they would cook without something.... I've done layers near the ground without any foil where they were totally shaded by my wife's hosta's and they were fine.... but no direct sun... for sure.

I also imagine the sun is more intense at your latitudes so... there's that to consider.

I grow many of my trees in front of the house, incorporated into the landscape in full view of the street. Come July, all the layers do start to look sort of weird