Ok call me stupid... gonna try to root a florist rose again..
bethnorcal9
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rooting florist roses???
Comments (6)The leaves will eventually fall off or you may have to pull them off once they dry up. Are you having success? I have been trying for the last few months using the burrito method, but it doesn't work well at all with florist roses. I've gone back to just potting the stems, similar to what you're doing. I have a frame I made out of pvc pipe covered with clear vinyl film. I put the potted stems inside a big underbed storage box, with wet clay pebbles under the pots, heating pads under the storage box, and full spectrum fluorescent lights on a timer for 9 hours a day. I have to mist them every day and add water to the pebbles about every 3-4days. So far I have a handful of the ones that I tried callousing with the burrito method first, that appear to be surviving, plus several directly potted with leaves on. The leaves on the earliest ones from a few weeks ago are beginning to dry up. If they don't fall off by themselves, I'll carefully pull them off in a few days or so. So, what roses have you tried so far? the ones that appear to be rooting for me are ROSITA VENDELA, PAILINE, OPUS and hopefully, IGUANA....See Morefollow up on florist roses
Comments (2)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...See Morewhat's the difference between florist roses and garden roses?
Comments (16)cleangeek, thanks for the link to the video. florist roses do have thorns. There tend to be less thorns right underneath the flower before you get to the first set of leaves . in the video that you linked to, there were actually red thorns lower down on the stem when they were picking the roses . Admittedly they're not super thorny varieties. But they're not actually thornless . One of the handling techniques discussed in a California grown video was to pick the longest roses first, lay them on your arm, then pick ever shorter roses to put on top. that way the flowers on shorter stems don't get punctured by the thorns of taller stems surrounding them . Florists and rose arrangers use a gadget called a stem stripper to remove thorns: This stem stripper is stainless steel. It will instantly remove the leaves and thorns from fresh roses. This tool is very commonly used in the floral industry and is a necessity for anyone working with roses. Length is approximately 4.5 inches. the description was for a professional one being sold by a wholesale florist supply website, but you can buy plastic and metal stem strippers from Amazon. I have used thorn strippers; I don't think they're worth the bother. That may be because I had to handle rose and I was the end-user as well . If someone else handled the rose to strip off the thorns for me, I might feel differently. the video from Holland also mentioned part of what makes their roses a premium product is they allow the flowers to open a bit further on the plant . It reminds me of the premium tomatoes which are closer to ripe when they're packed . I remember people being astonished at seeing the cut garden roses my husband brought to work actually open up until you could see stamens . Apparently florist roses tend not to open to that extent before they wither. as home rose gardeners, we're probably baffled at how much the price of roses is determined by the length of stems, all the way to superexpensive 5 foot stemmed roses....See MoreSuccess! Florist's rose rooted!
Comments (19)Ok Laurie, I finally got some pics of my rooted babies. They are taking FOREVER to do anything. GELATO finally shot out a couple of new leaves a week or more ago, but now it's sitting there again. And I have one CHERRY BRANDY in one band pot, and two in another. They appear to have rooted a long time ago, but have totally stopped growing. I even gave them all a very tiny shot of some granular fertilizer a month ago. I'm hoping when the temps finally cool down maybe they will begin to grow some more. I potted up GELATO in early December. The CHERRY BRANDYs I believe I did in February. In December I also potted up several of the DA SUMMER SONG, but only one made it. It has actually grown about 8-10" and even bloomed!! (that's it in the gal pot to the left) I recently tried (yet again) to root some cuttings of the florist rose QUICKSAND... but I think the bundle of stems had been at the Safeway market for more than two days, so they dried out pretty fast, and it's been waaay too hot to try and root anything right now. I may try something again when it cools down. The one florist rose I keep looking for but haven't seen in two yrs is an oddball brownish-orange one called CHILIS. I tried to root it back then, but it didn't work. Haven't seen it there again at Safeway since then. Oh well, it's fun to try and root them....See Morehenry_kuska
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