Figs Root in Water

When research how to propagate figs from cuttings here online, the suggestions all seemed so complicated and/or time consuming that I was not confident of being able to do it, but my late Uncle's monster fig had so many suckers this spring, that I just pulled some of them up straight and cut the base just below the dirt with pruning shears, then dumped the cuttings in a huge bottle of water, stuck them in a spare room where they got a little indirect light and left them alone and forgotten for several weeks. 

The articles warned not to want them to start leafing out as that would take away from their root development.  Not!  The roots are beautiful and so are the leaves.  The only place I may get in trouble is by not hardening them off right.  It is much hotter outside and even in partial shade there is much more light.  Not to worry, I took many cuttings and kept some of them indoors as controls.

Of course, as the sun passes across the sky, what was once in shade can get very hot and bright very fast, so one that I put out is already wilting a bit.I moved it into a shadier spot and gave it more water.