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Cutting propagation is the most reliable method for propagating roses. This is facilitated by the simplicity of the procedure and the ability to do it at any time. However, not many growers are successful.
Reproduction of roses at home
Cutting of bouquets is possible only from roses growing in their homeland, since imported specimens are processed with preservatives that do not allow the propagation of roses.
Before planting roses at home, you should make sure that the bouquet is fresh enough. For a high-quality cutting, the stem should be slightly lignified, of medium thickness, have buds at the bottom and top.
The highest quality stalk will come from the freshest bouquet and will have to be sacrificed. Remove flowers, thorns, buds. All lower leaves are cut off, and the upper ones are shortened by 2/3 parts. Cuttings are placed in distilled water and changed daily until roots appear.
The finished seedling is transplanted into the ground, covered with a jar, or into a pot.
Summer breeding
Summer breeding is the most natural way. Cutting the stems is carried out in the early morning or evening. Mature stems are selected, in which the thorns are easy to break; before flowering or immediately after it.
A sharp, sterile knife is used for cutting. A pair of leaves and buds are left on the handle. Planting material is kept in Kornevin, Heteroauxin.
A pair of leaves and buds
Many flower growers use their own reliable method instead of stimulants: they cut several leaves of the same variety into a glass of water and add a spoonful of honey.
Such breeding can be carried out all summer long.
Open field cuttings
Before propagating roses right in the garden, you should prepare the right substrate. Its composition should include river coarse-grained washed sand and fertile soil.
The prepared wells are watered with a steep solution of potassium permanganate and dipped at an angle, deepening the lower kidney. Seedlings, previously watered, are covered with banks.
The most suitable month for this operation is July, since it has an optimal temperature indicator. Planting material takes root for a month. During this time, the seedlings are hardened, and when August comes, the banks are removed completely. The buds that appear are pinched so that the root system develops better.
How to make a seedling from a rose
The time when it is possible to get a unique rose usually falls in autumn. And the question immediately arises of how to breed such roses, how to grow seedlings from the resulting specimen.
After waiting for the bouquet to wither almost completely, the stems with three or more buds on the middle part are selected. After cutting the cuttings, place them in a stimulant solution overnight.
Cuttings of roses
Twigs are planted in a container at an angle, the earth is slightly tamped, watered well. 2 twigs are stuck on the sides of the pot, and a cellophane bag is put on top. Supported by twigs, it does not fall, but a microclimate is created inside that is favorable for the plant.
Soon the rose will take root and a good seedling will turn out by spring.
Growing seedlings on potatoes
Not many have heard about how to propagate roses on potatoes, but only a few have tried this method.
Such cultivation allows planting the crop directly into open ground, without preliminary root formation.
In the spring, a trench is made, a third is filled with river sand. Each selected branch is stripped of thorns and leaves. A medium-sized potato is selected, its eyes are removed. A stalk is stuck into each tuber and buried in 2/3 of the length. Top seedlings are covered with bottles.
Growing seedlings on potatoes
Potatoes will provide constant moisture, starch, carbohydrates. It will be necessary to feed the seedlings with sweet water every 5 days. After a couple of weeks, they begin to harden, and then the bottles are removed altogether.
How to root a rose shoot
The rooting procedure for a rose is not difficult, especially if you apply a step-by-step method:
- The material is suitable only fresh, it is advisable to plant it on the day the bouquet is purchased.
- Flowers are selected without the slightest sign of wilting.
- Of these, attention is paid to specimens with the thickest stem, and that there are more than three buds.
- At the very bottom, the stem is cut at an angle.
- A couple of centimeters recede from the top and also cut off.
- The lower cut is cut with a cross and split a little.
- Cuttings are kept in honey solution for 10 hours.
- They are planted in a pot under a slight slope, leaving one upper bud above the ground.
- Then watering is carried out and the seedling is covered with a bottle.
Long-standing flower growers often share their experience on how to root a rose shoot, even if it is stunted. Their secret is the use of a special life-giving solution, which is an excellent root stimulant. After its application, the percentage of rooting of cuttings increases significantly.
The recipe includes aloe, sed, ash and melt water. The seedling is in solution from 10 hours, depending on the state: the weaker, the longer.
How to plant rose cuttings correctly, you can find out from flower growers.
Burrito method
Almost every Canadian grower knows how to propagate roses using a method that is completely unusual for Europeans.
By applying the burrito method to propagating roses, you can get a lot of seedlings. High-quality material is selected after the autumn pruning, and it is taken in sufficient quantities from neighbors in the country, in parks. You need to choose any garden or park bush variety, with a powerful thick stem.
Burrito method
The strongest stems are sorted from the trimmings of rose bushes, peeled from petioles and leaves. For the cuttings, the branches with the largest number of buds are selected and a cut is made under the very bottom. Having measured a length of about 20 cm, cut off the top.
Each copy is carefully examined for infection and disease. For any suspicious damage, the branch is discarded.
Making "burrito"
Before planting roses using the burrito method, you should stock up on newspapers.
One newspaper is required for each cuttings prepared. The stem is wrapped in a tube and moistened in water. The newspaper should get wet, but not creep; excess water should drain off.
All moistened burritos are placed in plastic bags in the amount of about 20-25 pieces and placed in a place with the most constant temperature approaching + 18 ° C.
Burrito method, what is the newspaper for
In this state, the cuttings can remain until spring, when they can be planted.
Weekly burritos are inspected, moldy or decaying cuttings are removed, and newspapers are replaced or moistened if necessary. Soon, healthy branches will be covered with an influx of callus at the cut sites and root formation will begin.
Rooting roses using the burrito method can be carried out year-round. The seedlings provided with warmth and light grow well in winter.
Dripping roses
Everyone knows how roses multiply by layering, since this method is often practiced for berry growers.
It should be noted right away that growing roses with this method does not give a lot of seedlings, only a couple of seedlings. The procedure is carried out in June and works with flexible stems.
In order to dig in the roses properly, you need to get wooden hairpins. They keep flexible branches inclined to the ground. A suitable bud is found on the stem, tilting it, and it is determined where to prepare the soil. A small incision is made near the kidney and moistened with a stimulant solution.
Dripping roses
Having pinned the branch to the ground, sprinkle the place with the notch with soil. All the time you need to keep the rooting site loose and moist, and nature itself will take care that the formation of roots is successful.
This way of reproduction for a rose is considered the most natural.
Reproduction by air
The air method of forming layers is good for shoots that cannot be bent.
The breeding sequence looks like this:
- On the shoot, where woodiness has not yet occurred, the bark is removed with a ring a couple of centimeters wide;
- Below the ring, tie the edge of a cellophane bag;
- Having filled it with earth so that the cut closes, the other edge is tied from above;
- Since the earth will have to be watered, the knot should be easy to untie;
- For air intake, neat punctures are made in several places;
- By the end of the growing season of the bush, roots will appear in the ground.
The finished seedling can be separated and replanted. This outdoor breeding method allows the shoots to be planted directly into the ground, but they will need to be covered for the winter.
Breeding features of some roses
Each type of roses has its own characteristics in reproduction. The method suitable for climbing roses is not suitable for indoor, and elite varieties of tea roses require much more attention than unpretentious park bushes.
Home rose
The indoor rose variety is not very moody and develops easily in confined spaces. The bottom of the main conditions necessary for them is the presence of fresh cool air and diffused bright light.
Before propagating a homemade rose, you need to prepare jars of water. You can cut the cuttings all summer, but immediately you need to put it in water - any delay reduces the percentage of rooting.
Home rose
The main feature in the reproduction of indoor specimens is that the water does not change under any circumstances. You can only top up. When the roots appear, the seedling is transplanted into a prepared pot with a substrate.
A home rose can be propagated by dividing the bush, layering or grafting.
Park rose
Reproduction of park roses is carried out in simple and easy ways: dividing the bush, offspring, cuttings, layering.
To propagate a flower in your garden, you can get a shoot when replanting shrubs with park workers or cut a branch for a cutting in the spring and summer.
Park rose
Also, the lignified shoot can be cut off after the first autumn frost, cleaned and started rooting at home. Also, shoots are well preserved in the film at + 1-3 ºС. In the spring they are cut and planted in fertile soil.
An unpretentious park view of roses will bloom in the second year.
Tea rose
This variety of roses is very whimsical and needs special attention and strong patience.
The newly acquired tea rose needs a period of adaptation to the new environment. It is strictly forbidden to transplant the plant earlier than 10 days after purchase.
Tea rose
Flowers are propagated in summer. Immediately after flowering, cuttings are cut above the bud and placed in water. When strong white roots appear, the cutting can be transplanted into a pot.
Reproduction of any kind of roses requires care, accuracy and patience. Before each operation, the work should be analyzed in detail in order to obtain a beautiful and healthy rose bush.
