Roots from young fig plants (Ficus carica L.) obtained through hardwood cuttings takes around one year and it has a high percentage of loss a large requesting amount of propagation material. With the use of herbaceous cuttings, it was aimed to verify its rooting influence by the presence and absence of leaves, collected from mother-plants with fruits, without fruits and treated with indolbutyric acid in different concentrations. The herbaceous cuttings were removed from the middle portion of fig branches cv. Roxo de Valinhos with 15 cm length and 15 mm diameter approximately and they were clipped in indolbutyric acid solution on 0, 150 and 300 mg L-1 concentrations during 24 hours. After this period, the cuttings were planted in black polyethylene bags containing washed sand and soil mixture inside (3:2 v/v) as a substrate and maintained in greenhouse under intermittent mist for 60 days. Higher percentage of rooting, dry matter weight of sprouts and roots dry matter weight of roots were obtained in cuttings without leaves and collected from mother-plants without fruits. It is not necessary the treatment with indolbutyric acid in cuttings.
Fig; cuttings; rooting; growth regulator
