This reminds me... I went to a grafting workshop recently and one of the wise men had a great tip. He said that he uses parafilm (the stretchy wax stuff that's used in labs to cover petri dishes but it's also sold in smaller rolls by amazon as "grafting tape") to keep cuttings from dehydrating. You basically wrap up your cutting like a little mummy (one overlapping layer is plenty), leaving the part that will go underground exposed. On that part, you use your knife to peel off some bits of the stem, which you dip in rooting powder. Then you stick the cutting in the ground/pot and keep it in a shaded area. They do the same "mummifying" with the fruit tree scions being grafted. As leaves emerge from the nodes, they stretch the parafilm and finally burst through, undamaged. Eventually the parafilm will drop off.
Soon thereafter I snapped a fairly skinny branch off a rose that doesn't have any branches to spare. I did 3 cuttings. One I planted by mama plant, the other two went along a north-facing wall. All have leaves now. I will add that it's spring here so it may be the perfect time for this (mild/cool, humid) and perhaps they all would have survived without the parafilm treatment. I will try this in the future anytime I'm trying to root cuttings of anything, in particular in warmer/drier weather.
Here's two of the little mummies, these stems were under 1/8" diameter. They both still look nice and green all the way to the top so I expect additional nodes to burst out some growth as the root system allows. I checked my notes and looks like I did this about a month ago.
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