BIGGEST Cutting We've ever Rooted: How to Grow a Fig Tree From a Cutting | Extreme Plant propagation

This is the biggest cutting we've ever rooted! Extreme plant propagation in the truest sense. If you ever wanted to learn how to grow a fig tree from a cutting (and I mean a really big fig tree) then you've got to see this. This fig cutting is 2 foot long, 6 inches in diameter, the densest wood I've ever dealt with, and it came from the trunk of a decades old fig tree. I treated this cutting as I would any other hardwood cutting, by preparing the bottom surface with rooting hormone and sticking it in a good draining rooting medium. It got left out in the open without any form of mist or humidity around it. I just watered it every day or every other day to keep the wood moist around the base. Looking forward to training this one up as a bonsai fig tree!

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[stelviodelbrava]

Amazing mate!
Next: propagating old Sequoia log used in 1800s home construction. Wow, it rooted!!

[msbuglinbowlin]

I worked with a woman years back who said she had taken branches off trees and they grew. I've tried with no luck. This gives me new hope!!

[febrianwijaya]

Man woke up oneday and decided to speedrun bonsai

[homebuddha]

only a gardener relates to this level of enthusiasm and excitement well done Mike! Love the log & branch fig cuttings. Huge success! Envious!

[woodstockxx]

You’re like the Steve Irwin of the plant world..sooo enthusiastic..I wish all kids shared this kind of interest & enthusiasm for plants & hope to see stuff like this being taught in schools someday..it’s exciting, rewarding, teaches patience..Mother Nature is amazing ! 😁👍

[hakdov]

i built a raised bed this spring with some logs from a maple tree that I cut down 6 months earlier. A couple of weeks later, they started to sprout new growth. Amazing.

[KimberlySYoung-ublo]

Mike, you are the Steve Irwin of Plant Propagation! Thank you for your great motivating videos from Kennewick!

[cromcruach]

Did the same with a large fig tree, with a 10cm trunk and about 150cm high, I had it in a very large plastic pot that died to root rot after a rain storm at the end of the spring, I sawed of the rotten bottom of the tree until I hit fresh wood, put some steril media in a bag added hormons and opened up a few minor holes in the bag bottom and tied the top of the bag. Moved it into the garage so the wood wouldn't dry out from the sun, a few months later I had roots and branches

[royhughes]

Dude, I wannabe just like YOU when I grow up! Wait.... I already am grown up. DAMNIT!! I missed the boat Oh well, I guess I have to just live vicariously through you!!!

[denvernow]

The most enthusiastic and wholesome commercial for rooting hormone I've ever seen.

[kimberlyhughes]

Mike, your enthusiasm is contagious...and your daughters are proof😁!

[juliec]

That video was a lot of fun! It was terrific to see your girls out there getting involved. When my son was 3, he stuck this big stick in his sand box, started watering it and calling it his “tree.” Darned if the thing didn’t sprout and start growing! It turned out that the stick was cottonwood. My husband & my son transplanted the new tree away from the house, into our field. That was 28 years, ago! That tree is now enormous (I dunno, maybe 40 ft?). Please propagate MORE TREES! Smoke Tree, Hawthorne, Sourwood, Hazelnut, Locust…I’d love to see it. Thanks for sharing with us, Mike!

[charleswilder]

Really fantastic! I doubt I ever will see a larger cutting rooted! Wow!
Tremendous roots on both of those! Those are beautfiul!

[RanchExplorerHQ]

Oh my goodness! Wow! Figs are super amazing! Great fun 🤩

[janb]

Just stumbled upon your video while looking into Air Layering. Awesome job with these cuttings. I hope you still have them. At the end of this video I was thinking how it was fate that you chose to do 2 cuttings because one day (hopefully in the far future) each of your daughters will have their own tree to reflect on and remember this amazing moment they had with you =)

[lisaalbarras]

Can't wait to see your bones fig updates! Congratulations on the figs and for having such genuine kind and hard working daughters.

[SuperManning]

Some folks are just naturally gifted in being great teachers and presenters. Mike is absolutely one of those folks! Watching this first thing in the morning is so much better than watching news channels. Maybe the world isn’t such a bad place after all.

[patrickperry]

I started with two Chicago Hardy Fig sticks smaller than a pencil for $20 at Costco.

Every year I prune the tree and root all the cuttings.

When people are given a ripe fig to eat, they ask how much a starting fig tree costs.

They take home their own fig tree growing in a 2 gallon or larger pot!

I ask them to share what they have been given.

We are in this life to help others.

This principle needs to be passed on and followed.

Patrick Perry
Salt Lake City Utah

[naturallynorthfarms]

Your positive enthusiasm is soo engaging! Nice to see you have two all star cultivators ready to take the baton!

[davinatest]

What a wonderful gift to give his girls…..the lovely memories and the great knowledge for gardening and growing.❤️🙏🏼