I take them whenever......

Figs usually root so easily, I do them any time they are not dormant. : )

you could take cuttings any time

valleylynn cross posted with you

I'm 71 and when I was a kid, my parents had four fig trees in a row about 20-25 feet from our house by my bedroom window. Everyone we knew would come to "pick figs". Those trees produced so many figs it was impossible to pick them all, especially at the tops. The overripe figs would fall to the ground, then sour. We had no air conditioning back then and I had to endure that sour smell coming into my bedroom window. This story is to suggest to you to consider where you plant your trees. Also, we kids would climb those trees for play and especially eat them when in season. Memories !

After my childhood, I learned to make jellies and jams. The figs are strawberry preserves made with strawberry jello and stawberry flavoring when I can find it. People, except family, do not know they are figs and not strawberries until we tell them. I even make some including canned crushed pineapple instead of strawberry jello and flavoring.

I have no source at this time for figs, but have planted one tree which froze down but came back year before last. It's not too tall now, but after reading your posts, just now, ran out and found a shoot to make a cutting. Used the rooting hormone and now waiting for the bonus! Yea!

Memories are good.......

Lynn, you say that you take fig cuttings any time they are not dormant, but remember the ones you gave to me about Feb 8-9, one shoot off each of the varieties you have? I cut them into pieces and almost all have rooted. I'm thinking that maybe with figs they just don't read the calendar. Oh, and you gave me Brown Turkey and what was the other one? L something. What color are the ripe figs on that one?

Hope I am spelling this correctly, Lattarula, also know as the Italian Honey Fig. It turns yellow when it's ripe and is very sweet. : )

Mary, I forgot about the Feb harvest of cuttings. I do remember thought that they were showing signs of coming out of dormancy. The leaf buds were swelling. The weather was unseasonably warm this last Feb.
I am so glad they have done well for you. : )

You spelled it right Lynn. Here is a link to a nursery that offers it along with others.
http://www.rollingrivernursery...

I love that fig. Very productive and very sweet. You probably won't get mature fruit for a year or two, when they are established with a good root system. : )

It's been four years since I started this thread, and I have a few years experience propagating Jolly Tiger now, though I'm just beginning to get a handle on it.

My strike rate isn't particularly good. With most of my figs I can now root at least 75% of what I put down, and sometimes 100%. Jolly tiger has been running 50-75% tops. This isn't really so bad, but the reversion rate to all green has been a problem. I only take cuttings from branches that have been producing variegated foliage. Nonetheless, of the cuttings that I've rooted in the last year:

8 have reverted to the point that I don't think I can recover the variegation
4 have more reversion than variegation, and I don't know if I can prune them enough to make them as stable as my parent plants
5 are reliably variegated to the point that I'm comfortable selling or trading them as what they are

That's five plants with the desired characteristics for thirty or so cuttings.

I've noticed that having visible striping on the wood increases the success rate, and it's important to catch non-variegated branches immediately on new propagations, before they can suppress the variegated growth. Light, water, fertilizer, and pot size do not seem to have much affect on variegation (beyond their normal affect on suckering and growth habit). All green branches grow faster than variegated ones, though, of course.

My original plant is eight feet, beautifully variegated, and bore 4-6 dozen fruit this year in the corner of the greenhouse. It does throw the occasional all green or all white branch, but that's easily remedied. My main propagation trees (pruned to produce lots of branches on a shorter bush) also look good. As soon as I clear out all of these propagated plants, I'll start another round of variegated cuttings and try to do better.

Paul, it is good to hear from you. Do you have a photo of the largest tree, the one that has produced figs. What do the figs look like?

More important what do they taste like?