How to Propagate Fig Trees -Easy and Effective-

fig trees are one of the simplest plants to propagate from cuttings and it's great because they are one of the few fruit trees that don't actually need to be grafted on to any certain root stock in order to do well in your garden in fact they're so simple to propagate that I almost never prune our fig trees without at least taking a few of the cuttings and propagating them into new trees so today I want to show you how I take these cuttings from our tiger-stripe fig tree and propagate them into new fig trees so you can do the same in your garden [Music] I'll start by getting my cuttings and as I said this is the time of year when I prune our fig trees so I'm not taking cuttings in a specific way just to get those cuttings I'm taking the cuttings by making cuts where I want to prune my fig tree and then I'll just use those leftover cuttings to propagate into new trees so really I'm just aiming for an outward facing bud a few buds out from that main stem that's where I like to prune my fig tree at least to keep it at the size that it is right now all right I've got a whole bunch of cuttings here let's go turn these sticks into trees first I'll add a thin layer of mulch to the bottom of this plastic bin then I'll fill it with these foreign seedling pots but you can also use plastic cups paper cups or any similar container as long as there's drainage then I'll fill them with potting mix I like this organic cactus and succulent blend from EB Stone but any well-drained potting mix will do I'll wet it down and tap a hole in each pot so I don't wipe off the rooting hormone when I stick the cuttings I'm using a liquid rooting hormone which is optional and I don't always use it but I always get the best results when I do I'll snip each cutting close to a leaf node because that's where it's most likely to root then I'll make a few short cuts into the bark right at the base of this cutting just in the pick cambium layer and that'll help with rooting I'll dip that end into the rooting hormone and then stick it in the pot all right only 23 more to go [Music] once all the cuttings are in place I'll tighten up the soil around them add another layer of mulch and water it all in for the next four to six weeks I'll keep these on the heat mat in my garage and I'll wet them down about once a week or as often as they need in order to not dry out the heat mat it's not essential but I found that it helps alright it's been a few weeks let's see how these things are doing Wow look at that these things are already rooting up really well so this is on the bottom I don't have any lights down here at all I just have a heat pad let's check one of these out these are about five weeks along oh yeah you know those roots that is a baby tiger striped fig tree just started from a branch cut from another tree put in a little bit of rooting hormone into this mixture and this thing's gonna be actually ready to plant pretty soon I'm excited for these alright here they are it's been a couple of months and those sticks have turned into trees and what's most exciting about it is every single one of these has rooted now at first glance it looks like some of them maybe didn't because they're not leafing out like most of them are but I can see that the top part of the stem has died back but below that if I just scrape the bark I can see that it still has some green underneath and furthermore if I take it out of the pot here you can see all these roots but what's even more exciting to me than 100% rooting on all of these cuttings is that when I started these I only had so many containers here but I had a lot of extra cuttings so what I did was I put them in this bucket with some bark and some potting soil and just kind of left them in this bucket didn't do much to them I put them in the garage they weren't on heat or anything like that but check this out I have got roots from almost all of these look at those roots so I've got an entire bucket full of more fig trees that just need to be potted up so we can take a look at the roots of these cuttings I'll just tap the bottom get out of there look at all those beautiful new roots this thing's looking great it's not root bound yet but what I'm doing today is I'm transplanting all of these into larger one gallon pots and I'll also pot up all of these cuttings so at this point I could definitely plant this right into the soil but I'm not ready to plant anything trees in my garden right now so I just want to up pop them into larger pots because also most of these are gonna be going to our farm stand so I want people to be taking home the more mature plant I figured some of the cuttings in this bucket would root that's why I put them in there but I went through and counted 20 cuttings and only two of the 20 didn't root so I got nice roots from 18 out of those 20 cuttings and that was way more than I expected well my plan was just to show you this one method of propagating fake cuttings because it's worked so well for me and it's pretty simple once again simple very effective 100% rooting on all of these but I also was able to show you another method that's even more simple and pretty darn effective I got 18 out of 20 of these to root so whether you're choosing this option or this option or a little bit of both like I did I hope you have success propagating your big cuttings if you have any questions about this process or anything else leave it in the comments below if you enjoyed this video and you want to see other videos like this hit subscribe otherwise I'll see you all next time [Music] you

Channel: Urban Farmstead

Views: 37,868

Rating: 4.9700274 out of 5

Keywords: Garden, gardening, homegrown, vegetable garden, urban farm, DIY, how to, organic, organic gardening, farm, farming, grow your own, start a garden, garden tips, gardening tips, grow food, grow vegetables How to propagate fig trees, propagating, figs, simple, easy, learn, fruit trees, orchard, pruning, how to prune fruit trees, prune fig trees

Id: CnEgcODP4jQ

Length: 6min 15sec (375 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020