Rooting a rose from a bouquet: three popular ways
Cutting is one of the most effective ways to propagate beautiful roses, and you can cut not only your own garden roses, but even bouquet flowers. Having correctly prepared the stalk and knowing how to root a rose from a bouquet, growers always have a chance to replenish their rose garden with a new variety. This is especially true if it is not possible to purchase ready-made seedlings. In order for rooting to be successful, and the stalk to take root, you need to know some of the nuances of the procedure, which we will talk about today. Read,how to grow a rose from a cutting?
When is the best time to root roses?
In the case of bouquet flowers, you should use the recommendations that apply when cuttings of garden roses... Rooting of cuttings at the beginning of summer will be most effective, but in autumn and winter, twigs of roses form roots reluctantly, because at this time the plants usually stop developing and prepare for rest.
How to prepare cuttings?
You can only cut a flower from a fresh bouquet, while roses with red and white color of buds lend themselves better to this method of propagation, while bouquet cuttings of varieties with different shades of yellow take root worse. Rooting of cuttings taken from a bouquet of roses of Dutch varieties will not always please with success, but local plant species are distinguished by good survival rate.
To root a bouquet rose, you should choose and prepare a stalk correctly, namely:
- select a flower with the healthiest appearance, in which the stem is not yet fully lignified (it is green, about the thickness of a pencil at the bottom, but still without a dense core);
- cut off the top of the shoot, since it is not suitable for cuttings;
- cut the remaining lower part of the twig into shanks no more than 30 cm long, but not less than 15 cm, while each should have at least three buds;
- the lower cut of the cutting should be done 2 cm below the kidney, along an oblique line, but the upper one, on the contrary, straight, stepping back from the kidney 1 cm;
- remove the leaves on the cuttings, leaving only the upper ones, but cutting off half of the plate from them;
- "Close" the upper cut on the cuttings with wax to avoid rapid evaporation of moisture.
Now it remains only for a few hours to soak the cuttings of roses in growth promoter, lowering them there with an oblique cut down.
Where to root?
The resulting and processed cuttings can be rooted in several ways:
- In the nutrient soil... Deepen the shanks vertically to the second bud and cover with a cut bottle. It will be possible to remove the cap in two months, and all this time the cutting should be regularly ventilated and not watered too abundantly.
- In water. Place in a jar with a little rainwater so that only the lower part of the cuttings is in the liquid. Change the water every two days until white growths appear, and then you can plant in a pot.
- In potatoes. Choose a healthy tuber and wash it in potassium permanganate. Make a recess with a screwdriver and insert the handle there. Dig up tubers in the garden or plant in a pot.