Some common fig types like Texas Everbearing will produce a few figs on last years growth. This crop is known as the Breba crop. Figs should make about one foot of new growth every year to produce a crop the following year. Hence, they are not commonly grown in the south. We live in Harris county around Houston, and we were wondering about the proper way to get a cutting off of a fig tree to produce another fig tree.
Figs root relatively easy from dormant hardwood cuttings.
Take some cuttings as soon as you can before the buds start to grow. If the buds have already started to grow it is too late for this year and you can try air layering. The best cuttings are made from two or three year old wood or from the basal parts of vigorous one-year old shoots with a minimum of pith. In other words you want the cuttings to have a lot of wood and not much hollowness to them. The cuttings should be 12 to 18 inches long.