Does anybody have any idea on how to reproduce fig trees?
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We had three fig trees in South Africa and they grew like crazy. If one branch is low to the ground, then you can weight it down until it touches the earth, and it should start making roots. Even a piece of a branch stuck in a jar of water will start rooting eventually. If you have one of those fig trees that keep shooting suckers from the trunk/stem, then use one of those that has a root on it. These are very easy plants to multiply by cuttings. You could also put a twig, about 15 cm long in a pot of soil and cover it with a plastic bag with holes in it. This shoot would also start to grow.
You have to cut a twig off it, but at the right point on the branch.
Then you put the twig in soil and hope it sprouts.
Should be done at correct time of the year too.
I had some small shoots coming up near the main plant when mine was first planted and I took them and potted them and they lived. You can do the twig bit too, just give it a nodule under the soil to sprout and I put mine near the mother tree so it will have the same sun and water it is used to getting. Do in spring and it will have all summer to get stable.
With what is called 'hard cuttings" ..here isthe info on it...click the link..very easy to do..
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/count...
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