Things You'll Need:
- Fig tree
- Pruning shears or other sharp cutting tool
- Container to hold cuttings
- Rooting hormone
- Growing container with drainage holes
- Potting soil
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Step 1
Take 6-to-10-inch cuttings from the end of two-year-old branches using a sharp cutting tool. Cut them 1/4 inch above a node or raised area that surrounds the stem. The cutting must have the growing end intact and several unopened green buds toward the end of the stem. Immediately put cut ends of cuttings in container holding water. Hold cuttings in water for 3 hours to hydrate.
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Step 2
Prepare planting pots by filling with clean potting mix and then soaking the mix with water and letting them drain.
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Step 3
Take the cuttings and make a fresh cut 1/4 inch below a node, two or three nodes above where the original cut was made. Clip off all leaves above the fresh cut, exposing the node that is just above the cut as well as one more node. These two nodes will go into the potting medium. There should only be small new leaves and unopened green buds on the cutting.
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Step 4
Dip the cut end of the stem in rooting hormone, covering two nodes with the powder or liquid.
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Step 5
Stick the end of the cutting with rooting hormone into potting medium deep enough to cover the two nodes. Gently push soil around the base of the stem to secure the cutting. Place in warm area (70 to 85 degrees F). Keep moist by misting once or twice a day. The cutting should be rooted in 6 to 8 weeks.
