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Fig Question?

My buddy trimmed his fig tree and i have about 25 branches that are about 4 foot long, that i received in the first week of december and have kept them in a garbage pail with some water. I live in central new jersey which is between zone 6 and 7. How should I propagate these fig cuttings now that it is December and freezing weather ? I do have an unheated basement where the temperature is right about 45 degrees. Please advise me.

Put them in some soil so that they can start growing roots.

Wrap them in blankets to keep them warm, and take them out to give them some light during the warmer parts of the day.

My dad grows figs and he leaves them outside in the snow in the winter by setting old panes of glass around it like a makeshift greenhouse, and completely covering the fig plant with dead leaves from fall. I guess it must work and keep it warm because it always survives.

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