posted 3 years ago
Greetings all!
I received a wonderful gift: some cuttings from a fig tree. A close friend's 97 year old father sent them along to me, with a video of him instructing me how to care for it.
The video really grabbed my heart and filled me full of joy. It is so clear to me that this gentleman has propagated many a fig tree, and that the process is as familiar to him as washing his hands. I wish, wish, wish I could share the video, but we all understand why personal, unvetted videos can't be posted here. Besides, to people with no emotional connection to the giver, the video would not have the same impact. It probably seem like just an old dude sitting in a chair talking.
In any event, in the journey from his memory to speech, something got lost in translation. His instructions were as follows:
"Keep 'em in a sunny-shady place. Not shade, not sun either. Make sure they got plenty of water. And in the wintertime, in the fall, you put it in the garage and you just leave it there until next spring. And in the wintertime you don't water it. You don't plant it in the ground yet. You have to wait a year or two until those trees develop a root system. Nothing else you should know."
They are currently residing in the bucket they were delivered in,. It looks like they were put in plain old Long Island dirt.
So, my permie friends: how do I propagate my fig cuttings?
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I choose...to be the best me I can be, to be the strongest me I can be, to learn the most I can. I don't know what comes next. But I'm gonna go into it balls to the walls, flames in my hair, and full speed ahead.