ETXfigs
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I will get her a replacement from the dollar store.
Winter Rooting Methods
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BucksCountyFigs
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Aack, no! You use the dollar store one. Likely she likes the one she has.
ETXfigs
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By next Thanksgiving she probably won't notice the difference and the one she has looks like it came from the dollar store. It's not a fancy high dollar one.
FigMamaJanet
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Thank you everyone with your hints on growing fig cuttings.
Coolwater77
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I’m trying something different this year for me, rooting in a lower portion of my grow tent. I have three shelves, top two shelves have cuttings that made it and are growing good. The bottom shelf has like a little tray enclosure. I have about 75 fig pop bags. I have them on heating well one large heating mat that I keep at 78. I have a temperature gauge and humidity on the shelf so I can see the temperature surrounding the cuttings which seems to be about 75 and humidity roughly the same fluctuates between 75 and 80 so I’m almost one week in, and I will keep everyone posted if it worked for me. BTW this temp condition I have in the tent now , is making my cuttings that successfully made it grow like crazy. I’ve never had such growth before. LED light on about 8 hours a day. This is the second batch, I started earlier this season. It was a bad ratio of success, I think I was in a 40%, but I think it’s mainly the cuttings because everything was textbook.
That’s the risk we take in trading, I trade my cuttings for the most part for cuttings I want, so as to get new varieties that I want to try. I realize it’s just gonna take time to find my own method that works for me, but man I have destroyed many of cuttings.
That’s the risk we take in trading, I trade my cuttings for the most part for cuttings I want, so as to get new varieties that I want to try. I realize it’s just gonna take time to find my own method that works for me, but man I have destroyed many of cuttings.
Coolwater77
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I have the up potting thing down with fig pops. 90 percent. It’s the rooting I need to get down like this guy Mike P. This guy has crazy roots.
ETXfigs
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You should show us pics of your set up. What varieties are you rooting?
Coolwater77
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I will when I get home after work. 12 varieties
BucksCountyFigs
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So I can learn, and so maybe I can possibly help, would you feel comfortable posting pictures of what you mean by your cuttings don’t look so good?
ETXfigs
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I will try to do that tomorrow. Two of the cuttings grew some leaves, then the leaves shriveled up and died. But they all have good roots. Most of them have not grown any leaves after 6 weeks.
Coolwater77
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Here is my tent set up. I’m very happy with it. But I went crazy with cuttings and I have no more room.
So I have to get creative and try and find a spot in the house that can keep a a similar condition I have in the tent. I’m think of a spot that’s next to my furnace and hot water heater. It’s in an enclosed room that I know always feels pretty warm. There’s a spot between them I can make an area to put the new cuttings that have taken off, so I can save without having to spend money on a heating source.
Just need a grow light over head to keep them happy.
So I have to get creative and try and find a spot in the house that can keep a a similar condition I have in the tent. I’m think of a spot that’s next to my furnace and hot water heater. It’s in an enclosed room that I know always feels pretty warm. There’s a spot between them I can make an area to put the new cuttings that have taken off, so I can save without having to spend money on a heating source.
Just need a grow light over head to keep them happy.
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Jigfig
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Get them light and I would think it’d work like a charm. May not have the humidity of your tent but other than that should be good.
Coolwater77
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I bought the temp/humidity during prime day like 4 of them. So I will drop on there and see how it is.
I also have the reflective paper to make some walls as an enclosure and hav the light overhead to direct the light more on the trees. Damn this is some MacGyver stuff.
I also have the reflective paper to make some walls as an enclosure and hav the light overhead to direct the light more on the trees. Damn this is some MacGyver stuff.
ETXfigs
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Wow! That looks great
I tried to read as much as i can of this thread. let me give you guys a game changer that i didnt see anyone post... when uppotting cuttings or any uppot for that matter, water it in with Neptunes harvest fish and seaweed 2.3.1. Light blue at 25-50% and dont stress more wont hurt but they only need 25% strength. Its 40$ a gallon but it lasts forever 1tsp per gallon so if you only have a few cuttings you can buy smaller. It doesnt let the fig shock basically at all, Out of almost 100 good cuttings this year i have lost maybe 2 to mold (maybe i skipped rinsing) and 5 have roots no buds so far, rest are thriving. Just a warning NEPTUNES STINKS proceed with caution indoors. My grow room is in my back part of my basement. I also layer perlite or sand on top it slows and messes with gnats and added yellow stickies weekly and spray neem. Hope this helps.
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I have similar set ups, fig pops vivosun products etc, i root cuttings in cardboard boxes set on top of vivosun thermostated mats, set a cup of water in it on the mat, close the lid and lay a blanket over it. Works like a charm. I put them in the growtent on uppot under a 100w vivo. Having great success with all their products.
BucksCountyFigs
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Thanks for sharing- I love seeing people’s inside setups!!
Especially since I’m struggling with my own and the lighting setup.
Especially since I’m struggling with my own and the lighting setup.