Fig Tree. Am i doing this right?

PorkandBeans

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Hello. I got my house 30 yrs ago and it had a fig tree. made beautiful figs every year. with the age of the house,. when i moved out in 2018 it was just about 100 yrs old. well...I rented the house for 3yrs. and the people that rented it cut hacked and basicly killed my fig tree. I asked my daughter to dig out the roots so I could try to save it. we found 1 small green stem poking out. we dug it up, i made some good soil for it and put it in a cooler so i can take it when i moved. Nieghbor told me the people poured oil on it.... but i donno if this is going to work. when I try to search I get a lot of fiddle fig tree but this is a regular fig tree.. makes purple figs.
any suggestions or is this a hope for the best?
 

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If you are positive the root with green growth attached has come from the parent tree and the parent tree wasn’t grafted then you should have a clone of it. However, if the tree was grafted onto rootstock, then probably not.
 
If the original tree was 100 years old, your chances of the original tree not being grafted (and thus the piece you have will grow up to be the same as the rest of the original tree) are much higher than it would be from a modern nursery purchased tree. Most fruit trees nowadays are grown from grafting because most people today don't have the same sort of patience to wait for their tree to grow up and start bearing fruit, and most people have a bit more money to spend on fruit trees than most people did 100 years ago. Back then it was very common for people to plant fig trees from cuttings. That being said, grafting was still very common, but it tended to be more popular for things like stone and citrus fruits. Grafted figs would have been common among wealthier people and commercial growers, but not so much found in the average back yard garden. That being said, it's still not a guarantee it wasn't a grafted tree, but either way, you'll know what you have in a few years time when it starts popping fruit.

And JP is right, most fig varieties are easy to grow and hard to kill, so it'll probably survive and thrive.
 
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