Does Grafted Root Affect Rose Characteristics ?
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Comments (1)All band and 1-gallon plants are rooted cuttings and not grafted. In a true zone 7a winter (low of 5 to zero F), it's possible for some grafts to be damaged enough to ruin the plant. Therefore, ideally the graft should be just barely below grade. You can protect those planted at grade by shoving mulch over them for just the part of winter with temperatures below 10 degrees. Unnecessary mulching over the cane stubs can encourage disease. Most shrub roses will be hardy in zone 7a without protection....See MoreOyster Shell/Hardware Cloth affect on roots of roses?
Comments (9)Kaye - you mentioned filling the cage with mulch to hide the 1" of exposed cloth...something DH would like alot. I assume you are recommending that outside the cage, I should keep the ground 1" below the cage but that I can hide the cage somewhat by willing the cage inside with mulch to the top. Kaye and Sammy - how are you finding the 12" height of your cages. All my vole damage is from underneath. Even in the snow, there is never any damage above the dirt. I like the 12" height because you can get 3 runs out of the 36" wide hardware cloth and it would be easier to dig up a rose and move it. But I don't want the voles to go up underneath the cage. So I was considering going 18" in height but thinking that might be overkill. Thoughts? I also have a young tree, similar to a crab apple, that is getting chewed on by voles from underneath. It is still leafing and you wouldn't know what was going on underneath. But I can tell based on the vole holes near by and the fact that it is not solid in its hole like other trees. It is unrealistic to dig it up and DH is going to start trapping. But is there anything I can do or give the tree to help it recover? I hate to loose it....See MoreDoes grafting affect flavor?
Comments (0)Ive heard that grafting a citrus variety can affect the flavor. Does that mean that if I graft an orange onto a grapefruit rootstock, the oranges will acquire a grapefruit flavor? A: No, each variety will always have the same basic flavor, regardless of rootstock. But the rootstock chosen will affect the intensity of the flavor, as well as the sweetness-to-sourness ratio. Generally, less vigorous rootstocks (Poncirus trifoliata, Sour orange, citrumelo) stocks give a richer-flavored fruit. Very vigorous stocks (rough lemon, volkameriana, Rangpur) give a more bland, diluted-tasting fruit. In the questioners example, grapefruit roots will cause the orange scion to produce bland-flavored fruit. Information provided by Malcolm_Manners...See MoreFACTORS AFFECTING THE ROOTING OF CUTTINGS OF ONCE-BLOOMING ROSES
Comments (15)Apologies for the terse comments, but last night I was having serious problems with the Orange Screen of Death.It was raining outside, and I am supposed to be able to fix things like that. Otherwise, why do cats live with mere humans? Most of our garden we grew from cuttings. I haven't found gallicas or damasks to be particularly difficult, but we never got the hang of albas. When I was a kid, my grandmother taught me how to root roses in flower beds under glass jars. Roses rooted that way, but often died off the first winter. At that time, it didn't bother me since I had no place to put new roses, and if they died it meant I could reuse that space again. Many decades later, when growing the roses on became the goal, we moved inside to root roses under lights in the basement. It gave us more control over the environment, we didn't have to fight squirrels, didn't have to figure out the proper exposure at a house where the entire east side is driveway, and didn't have to scrounge the right size glass jars. BTW, the last is non-trivial. So June cuttings went inside baggies under lights, rooted usually sometime in early August, went outside for a bit in September, then spent their first winter under lights back in the basement. IME, the hardest thing about growing cuttings is getting them up to size, not getting them to root. So I have little patience with mail order nurseries that sell small rooted cuttings. I can usually do that myself. Our one attempt at hardwood cuttings was trying a different approach to rooting albas. This isn't a winter method, but late to mid-fall. Around here, I believe we stuck the cuttings before Thanksgiving. We ended up with about 30 billion Jacques Cartiers and no albas. There are other propagation techniques that are more often used on other woody plants than roses. Various forms of air layering, and ground layering for example. If you want to try with something easy to build confidence, try multlflora types....See MoreLilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
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