All good suggestions. Like ShadyGreenThumb, I must bring my 20 year old fiddle-ficus in for approximately 4 months of over-wintering. I live in NE Mississippi. I have to cut this plant back twice a year, in the spring and in the fall, and cut off approximately 1 to 1 1/2 ft each time. That is the only way I can keep this plant within 6-7 feet and get it through my porch door. Good luck in rooting the cuttings though. I have (tried to) root them from cuttings for well over a decade, twice a year, and have had many more failures than successes. I now constantly air-layer the branches, having better success in rooting this way than I ever did by rooting her cuttings.
Don't expect to see new growth from where you take the cuttings for 4-6 wks. Occasionally you won't even get any new growth there at all. When it does branch, you could have anywhere from 1-3 new branches growing from the cut. Just no way to predict branching or rooting.
