I recently noticed these fig suckers growing out of a stump at my new place in the PNW. Would I be ok to let them grow as is (It's a good location with full sun) or try to turn them into cuttings and plant them elsewhere?
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I was so hyped to hear that wild strawberry was a very aggressive sun-loving plant practically capable of taking over lawns and bought myself some after seeds failed to take off. Unfortunately what I didn’t realize is that although they’re native I’m at kind of the extreme southern edge of their natural range (with some drought too) so I’ve been having to lean in and really give some support with water so that they don’t die (may also be stress from being transplanted near the start of summer). They make a valiant effort to daisy chain themselves around but the ones that get the afternoon sun will be limp with folded up leaves after just a couple days without supplemental water and the others while not so bad don’t look fantastic either and need to occasionally top-off. Not bothering to fruit much which I agree with. Plan to cut them all off of supplemental water next year when the roots should be better developed and let it go how it’ll go but pretty worrying…
Also have the garden ones in a pot, those guys did fantastically and gave tons of delicious strawberries since they still has full sun but the potting soil doesn’t drain as easily as the loamy sand in the yard so no drying out.