Good luck Beth! In my area I have good success rooting cuttings during this time of year too. The plastic baggies outside work great. I have never tried rooting florist roses though!

I had good luck last year putting cuttings under a big opaque plastic storage bin. I had them outside in bright shade under a big fir tree and it worked pretty well. Sort of the same method :)

I definitely will keep you guys posted. I'm really hoping to have a bunch of these make it. A few more weeks and I should know for sure on GELATO.

Thanks for sharing your method! Can you show a photo?

This is the way I've been rooting for years, but I don't use a one gallon pot, and putting the bags in a cooler area in mostly shade I've found is a must, and not to have the soil too wet, or they cuttings will rot. There needs to be a happy medium.

A coworker once asked me if I could possibly root a rose for him from a bouquet of florist roses he gave his girlfriend. On their first anniversary, he wanted to be able to give her a rose bush, of that rose he had first given her. I stuck the cuttings like I always do and got one to root, no problem. I have no idea what it was, but it was fun doing it.

Mindy that coworker is such a romantic! What a sweetheart you are for helping him with that. I would cry buckets if my husband ever thought of doing that.... but then again we don't do bouquets since I have a gazillion flowers growing here.

For those of you in zone 5, what do you do with your cuttings during the winter?

For me personally, I have them potted up in early fall and let them continue to grow roots for a couple months, until the snow starts flying and it freezes. I then move them into an unheated garage for the winter and let them go dormant. They don't fully freeze, and seem to do pretty well. I will occasionally lose a few, but need to remember to give them a drink of water about once a month, or they will dry out and die that way. In the spring, back outside they go.

my new house I just moved to is considered zone 6, but I'm treating them the same as when I lived in zone 5.

Mindy

Kelly last year I brought them inside under lights for the winter. They seemed pretty small, and our garage is detached and gets too cold. This year I had bigger cuttings, so I planted them in the ground late summer. Will see how they do , they're on the west side of the garage. I am overwintering hydrangea cuttings that I started in Oct, they are doing well under lights, and I started some cuttings of Excellenz von Schubert around Christmas (broke off in the snow so I figured why not?) I think Mad Gallica brings hers in and keeps them cool so they sort of go dormant over the winter. I don't have anywhere cool enough to do that though!gives me something to do over the winter till I get going with seeds.

Julie

Noseometer, I'll try to get some photos tomorrow. It's been raining the last few days again. I did just this morning peek in at the cuttings, in between the drizzle and light hail, and they look great. I see budeyes swelling to the point of popping leaves any day. I know that doesn't necessarily mean they have rooted, but it's about 5-6 weeks since I potted the GELATO cuttings up. When I was trying to root indoors in the old lizard terrarium, at this point they would've been black and moldy by now!

I found this excellent article on why cuttings fail. I had success last year rooting them outside, however, indoor rooting has always proved more challenging. This year my cuttings in plain old vermiculite seem to be doing the best; possibly because Nahema is easy to root?

http://www.jfcl.com/Writings/Success_With_Cuttings.htm

Makes me want to try again. When do you folks in warmer weather prune roses? Anyone be interested in sharing some cuttings if I pay for pp so I can try rooting again?

So in NorCal in my area I was told by the master gardeners to prune now. It's 50-60s during the day here now and 40s at night. Some areas near me may still in the 30s at night.

Kelly I have been using coir for my cuttings. Having decent success but haven't done a ton of them. I would chime in for any pruning leftovers as well! My family will probably have me committed lol

I'm so bad jumping on the rooting band wagon, but I'd love to add some and am willing to trade what few un-patented one I have, when they put on a bit more growth. Kelly, thank you for posting that link.

I would be happy to send some out when they're older, but mine are mostly too young now... or already pruned. I wish you all the best of luck though! I have never tried to root indoors. Seems very challenging!

I normally would be in the middle of my pruning, but this has been such a wet winter I haven't had a chance to get to it! I'm hoping to start attempting to root many of my rarer roses so I don't lose any more of them. And if extras get rooted... then I can share them. We shall see how it goes!

Beth I was thinking... I was remembering that you have mentioned you used to have good success with rooting, but recently haven't. I was thinking that maybe it's' not you... but that maybe the preservatives used for florist roses have changed in the past few years? The ones in the stores have all been treated right? Maybe the preservatives used have changed and make rooting harder somehow? Just a thought. I have never tried rooting florist roses, but I'm really curious and part of me really wants to try it just to see.

Cori Ann, I was able to root other roses, not florist roses. I only ever got one florist rose to root. And yes I understand there is something they treat the roses with that probably does inhibit the rooting process. But I know it can be done. There was a lady on the Forums several yrs ago who rooted lots of them. I haven't seen her on here in a long time.

Ya know, last night I looked at that video you posted about growing roses from seed. It's funny, I kept watching all sorts of rose propagating videos on YouTube. Some are hilarious. And some are very informative. And some are interesting, but incomplete. They don't show the end results. Anyway, in one of the videos, I saw a rooting product that intrigued me, and I ordered some from Amazon last night. It's called "Clonex gel." It's a super-concentrated rooting hormone that seals the end of the cutting. The reviews sounded great. Most people got well over 90% success. That's of course many other types of plants, but some that were difficult to root otherwise. I can't wait to try it now!

Beth I have the Clonex! I think last time I used my powdered stuff though. Next time I'll use the Clonex and see if it's any better. Dip & Grow is supposed to be good too.

Yeah I have used Dip & Grow too. No better results than Rootone tho.

Ok... here's some pics of the cuttings. We're in a lull in the storms, waiting for the next round... so I thought I'd get some pics.

Here's a bunch of bagged up cuttings... I just added some new florist rose cuttings last week. Thought I was getting the beautiful ruffly orange blend FREE SPIRIT that I tried to root last yr, but I hadn't realized, it was actually a newer similar one called "WILD" SPIRIT. Not as pretty of a rose, but nice anyway. The buds never did open up much, and my cats chewed them up pretty good. I figure it'll probably be the one to actually root just because.

And this is one of the batches of GELATO cuttings:

Don't think I mentioned that I also budded two GELATOs. My first attempts! I hope they make it as well!!

Woo hoo! Got my Clonex today. Now I can't wait to try it! Guess I'll hafta go to Safeway on Friday and see what florist roses they get in....

I ordered some too (Clonex). I also got a small jar of Rootech. I plan to try them both and see if one produces better results than the other, when I start rooting this summer.

thanks for the photos. I'm going to try it!

Julie, I sent you cuttings of the 3 types of roses you wanted yesterday and I also sent Alana the 8 types of rose cuttings that she wanted as well. I've emailed you the tracking #.

Julie: i haven't heard anything back from you as to when you'll be able to send me yours. Please make sure you send them either Monday or Tuesday so as to reach me by end of the week.

Alana: I look forward to receiving yours soon!

Jen you put this on the wrong page