Rooting figs

[yardiron]

I decided to give rooting some new plants a try again a few weeks ago. I tried everything else so this time I just stuck some cuttings in a jar of water. In the past they always rotted before sprouting but I never took the cuttings off a dormant plant in spring.

Two weeks in and I notice that about half the cuttings are growing roots out the sides of the cuttings. What surprised me is that the roots are coming out above the water, near the top not at the bottom.
A few sprouted small green leaves at the nodes but I don't get the roots being that high up vs in the water? At this point the roots are just inch long hairs but they're pointing straight out sideways not down into the water.

 

[oneeye]

I decided to give rooting some new plants a try again a few weeks ago. I tried everything else so this time I just stuck some cuttings in a jar of water. In the past they always rotted before sprouting but I never took the cuttings off a dormant plant in spring.

Two weeks in and I notice that about half the cuttings are growing roots out the sides of the cuttings. What surprised me is that the roots are coming out above the water, near the top not at the bottom.
A few sprouted small green leaves at the nodes but I don't get the roots being that high up vs in the water? At this point the roots are just inch long hairs but they're pointing straight out sideways not down into the water.

Turn them around.

 

[yardiron]

They are oriented on the direction they were growing on the plant.
The roots are popping out of the two top nodes vs down near the water.
A few have green bits also growing out of the opposite sides of the same node.
Nothing yet growing in the water or reaching down to the water.

I'm debating on taking them from the water and putting them into starter soil buried up the roots but it may be too early, since they are not proper roots yet.
Whats' growing out the side looks like long white thorns not roots, they're growing horizontal in the jar and not heading down to the water.

 

[yardiron]

The question is do I cut off the lower part of the cuttings that don't have roots?
The roots are slowly turning downward but don't seem to be in any big hurry.
One of the smaller cuttings I had stuck in a bucket of dirt because it was too short also seems to be sprouting leaves now. I didn't dig it up to see if its got roots but its got leaves just as the original tree now does.
If the original tree keeps up like its going I'll likely get two crops of figs this year so long as we don't get a sudden temperature drop in May like we did last year and the year before.