Rooting Rose Cuttings... methods and techniques
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Best Method for Rooting Cuttings?
Comments (19)There are three terms you might benefit from understanding. "Dormant", "soft wood", "hard wood". Dormant in my climate means wood which is removed in late winter/early spring BEFORE the plant begins pushing foliage and flowers. Some years that period seems not to occur, most years, it does. Hard wood is the growth BENEATH that which has most recently flowered. Sometimes it has older foliage on it, others, it doesn't. Sometimes that can be "dormant". Soft wood are the most recent flowering stems, usually those which have recently shed their petals. Wrapping, or "The Burrito Method", traditionally works most successfully with dormant material, though it CAN work wtih hard wood cuttings under optimum conditions. Most often, methods such as the "baggie", "terarium", mist, etc., require soft wood material, that which has recently borne a flower after the bloom has fallen. Dormant and hard wood material is "harder", it won't wilt easily and is usually more durable against harsher conditions. Its buds are more "dormant", requiring more time to mature before being stimulated into growing. Soft wood wilts rather easily as it is "softer", more juvenile. It usually contains more readily available nutrients, hormones, auxins, etc. which push new foliage and flowers. Under ideal conditions, it can often root very quickly. When I volunteered at The Huntington Library, propagating for the sales and gardens, I used soft wood material under their mist propagation set up. A flowering stem which had recently shed its petals could root under the usual summer conditions in the mist table in seven to ten days. Hard wood took several weeks under mist. Hard wood and dormant cuttings over winter in the green houses required three to four months. What is optimum for you to use depends upon a wide range of variables. You can study suggestions from other climates for each method, but you have to experiment with them where you are to determine which works best for you and at what times of the year. A rose breeder friend in Rancho Mirage has his best success in November using soft wood, if that helps. Kim...See MoreRooting Cuttings - What's Your Method?
Comments (32)from my experience, the wicking quantity is more determined by the level of water in the container below that the length of the string. I have some of those huge plastic 'stuff' boxes that hold 10 1-gallon pots on top each. my strings are all pretty long but when the water level gets down to about 2 inches in the big containers, the wicking is greatly decreased. I start out with the containers about halfway filled, when it gets low, I have my hubby help and together we lift the top off with the pots on, then I empty and clean the container and add fresh water (about every two months or so)....See MoreGarden in Nov. & buy-list & rooting roses & soil prep& what's learned?
Comments (49)Lavenderlace: Your "Doris" day looks almost thornless. Yellow Molineux is also known as low-thorn, and fades less than Julia Child. Pat Henry of Roses Unlimited is very nice. She put up with my changes in order for spring 2017. Her husband died Oct 24, 2015 .. I'm sad for her. Here's what I wrote to Roses Unlimited regarding my order: " Found that The Dark Lady and Golden Fairy Tale both have Rugosa heritage, both are very thorny. My alkaline heavy clay isn't suitable for Rugosa (prefers sandy/loamy). Would it be possible to change that to low-thorn Nahema and Lagerfeld? I also add Barbara Streisand to make up for my sin of changing my order !! Final list is 7 roses for April 2017 delivery: Nahema, Lagerfeld, Barbra Streisand, Sonia Rykiel, Firefighter, Versigny, and Bolero." So happy that Pat Henry approved my changes. I won't make any more changes !! I got poked plenty so I'm happy with low-thorn Nahema, Firefighter, Lagerfeld. Sonia Rykiel has much less thorn than Austin roses. My buy-list consists mostly of roses that died through my zone 5a winter, the only new ones are Barbra Streisand and Lagerfeld....See MoreRooting method I have not heard before: toothpick technique
Comments (10)Update: Today, Dec. 22, I potted up 30 rooted cuttings from those I took in Oct. and November. I didn't see many rotted cuttings out there. There are some varieties, mainly once-blooming OGR's that are still unrooted but they look ok. Will just leave them alone in their pots of sand . They might put out roots closer to spring. One of the varieties I potted up was one that I'd tried the toothpick method on. The other toothpick treated ones are the hard to root OGR's so still no verdict. But I'm happy with the roots on one that had been next to impossible to root in hotter weather. It remains to be seen if these tiny plants make it through the winter . If it gets too cold I might put them under my house for temporary protection. I'm in zone 7...we've had a good many freezing temps and a snow so far this winter so these cuttings have not been protected from that. If this works out I'll feel like my time frame for taking cuttings has been extended by a few months....See Morestrawchicago z5
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