The biq question,what did I bring back!! Moonstone 2 St Patrick 2 Vavoom 2 Sheilas Perfume Phillis Diller Cecil Brunner City of San Fran Black Baccara 2 Black Magic 2 Lynn Anderson 2 Maryilin Monroe 2 Veterans Honor Trying to get a jump start on exibition roses. Some are just hard to find here or way to expensive. Stan c

Yeah, keep trying. Don't give it up, because eventually you can get them to root. I'm finally (I think) having some success with potting them into clear plastic cups and placing 2litre bottles over them (bottoms cut off) and misting every day. I also have them inside a chamber I made with pvc pipe frame and clear plastic over it, with clay hydroponic pebbles under them, kept moist and greenhouse heating pads underneath. I just checked the last batches and so far they look good after a few weeks. I cut the stems into 2 pieces when I pot them up. Usually, the bottom half of the stem won't have any leaves, or maybe just one. I still pot those up anyway. Even those are looking ok at this point. I put 2-4 stems in each cup. Depends on how many I end up with. Sometimes some of the bottoms of the stems are kinda weird looking and I'll cut them off. Also depends how many budeyes each stem has. A couple of the roses I tried had large spaces between budeyes, so I only got 12 cuttings instead of 18-24 (per dozen stems). I just today potted up cuttings of a florist rose I've been trying to find for awhile. SWEET BERRY. I'm really excited about it and hope these cuttings work. I sure wasted a lot of time, money and cuttings the last couple months trying the burrito method. Wish I would've just gone ahead and done what I'm doing now. As long as you keep them moist they should eventually take. I found that many of mine that didn't make it had gotten too dried out. So make sure you keep them moist! Take a look at the link below and you can see how Dan roots his cuttings. He has a pretty high success rate. Here is a link that might be useful: DanTy's rooting set-up

Congratulations! Roses always amaze me with how strong they really are. Jackie

Thanks for the reply. I've been round and round in my head, and to a few stores, and think I'm going to choose the Lauzon Sapele again. Yesterday, I was sure I wanted Scandian Admendoim. I still haven't really seen any Brazilian teak, perhaps there isn't much of it in engineered? But it comes down to knowing that 1) this floor has worked well for us 2) the company does things the right way and 3) I'm really sold on square edges, despite the requisite short boards. I've read lots of posts on the board over the last several days and seen lots of great pictures, thanks to all who contribute their experiences here!