Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Wayne <wa2yne@gmail.com>]

 They may come back.
 I have some figs myself, and one is a root cutting from another that I  
put in the ground. The one I put in the ground got confused with some of  
our odd weather last winter, and seems that the whole thing died.
 Another tree wintered over in its pot okay, but seemed to die back after  
I put it in the ground. It is now coming up fine next to the original main  
stem.
 If the roots are good, they will grow up from there.
 Not a 100% guarantee though.
 I had tried to get some stem cuttings to grow back in 98, never got any  
to take. But root cuttings with a new shoot started seem to be able to do  
fine.
 Hope you don't have any gophers. I had one tree that I put in the ground,  
and took a root cutting from. the gophers killed it by eating the roots,  
but the cutting grew well when I put it in the pot that I had removed the  
original tree from.
 Root cuttings seem to do well, where trying to root stem cuttings fails.
 YMMV

 Wayne WA2YNE
 Imperial, Tejas

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:32:56 -0500, Carrie Shepard  
<carrieshepard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I just got some fig starts and they've severely wilted, though there  
> were immediately given some water and potting soil.&nbsp; Will they come  
> back from the roots in time if I just keep watering them?
> &nbsp;
> thanks,
> Carrie
> &nbsp;



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