So I took my three fig cuttings and then looked on line to see what to do with them.
Big mistake I had take the wrong part of the tree. I should have had lengths of old wood and put them into a plastic bag with water. I watched as he cut off the nice pieces I had with part old wood and part green with leaves, and said those would go to the pigs.
As we no longer have pigs on site, I decided to plant what I had.
The leaves fell off quite quickly, but there was a small green shoot left on each cutting so I decided they were worth watering until this also fell off.
Well I watered and watered and watered. And I made some willow water and watered with that as well.
The weeks went by and nothing. But they got watered because I had other cutting on the go. Big surprise first one, then two and finally three, the green shoot at the top opened and a tiny leave has appeared. To my amazement all three cuttings appear to have rooted.
The big question is now when to move them. I cannot have three figs, five black currants, two gooseberries and an aronia growing out of the top of a dalek compost bin. Though actually the aronia does not look happy. They do not get much light in there.
