What would you do with this rooted cutting?

figologist

figologist

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This is a day 75 rooted cutting in a 4x9. It had some good growth early but dropped its leaves. Interestingly, it hasn't molded or shown any other signs of death, but it's just not pushing growth. What would you do with it?

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Figgerlickinggood said:
Are there roots? Sometimes cuttings leaf out but never root. Once the leaves use up all the stored energy it just dies. If there’s roots then maybe fig mites.
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I couldn't fathom this thing not being partially alive 75 days later without some sort of root system. The other 3 of the the variety were vigorous and developed beautifully. And I've used Mosquito Bits with every other watering and I don't see evidence of mites. So weird.
 
I usually just leave them until they either completely brown and die or bounce back. I’m nowhere near expert though. Sometimes they surprise you. Being it’s been that long and not dead something is happening.
 
Throw it in the long grass.

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. There’s a guy on FB Cajun Cooking With Hoss and if he sees something he doesn’t like on someone’s cooking video that’s what he says. lol sorry for the distraction. 😂😂
 
I'm a beginner at propagation but there is something I noticed that has happened to my cuttings. They sprout leaves growing good and then just stop growing. Some of the leaves even fell off. I had heard so much about over watering cuttings. I kept the soil just barely moist. When they stopped growing I figured I would try giving them a good amount of water. Both times this happened, it was like turning on a switch when I put that water on them. Here is two pics. The first pic, the growth had stalled and it looked like that for a week or more and leaves actually fell off. I gave it water wth a little bit of Alaska Fish fertilizer and it took off growing again. The second pic is how it looks now. I'm just saying maybe it needs more water if you haven't tried that.

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For sure it's not dry. I'm about as paranoid as they come when it comes to moisture levels =)
The three sister cuttings grown exactly the same way took off. It's just this fourth one for some reason.
 
After 3 months I wouldn't hesitate to carefully take that guy out of the pot and stick it on a 3 gallon pot of it has decent roots.
It would have to be a sink or swim kind of thing at that point. :)
 
Take the cutting away from light, not darkness but set it aside and let it fight for light. Let it be and see what happens. Less light sometimes it triggers them to concentrate more on developing roots. Sometimes they will even grow a sucker below the soil line if the top has died which in this case could happen. 🤔
 
Call me cold and cut throat, but if you have 3 more of the same variety that made it and are doing well, I might just toss it. :p It is interesting though that this one, out of 4 attempts, behaved differently.

And since you have 3 more, you could maybe probe on this one a little to see if you can determine what is going on. Maybe carefully take it out and examine the roots?
 
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