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Rose cuttings problem
Jason milly
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What am I doing wrong I took some rose cuttings I kept them in propagate until they had buds and then leaves I then took them out and kept them in the greenhouse with propagate lid on at night , but one of my cuttings has died , the others still ok but do you think I am treating them to soft .
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I grow rose cuttings outside in a slit trench as described here ... scroll down a bit
http://www.pyracantha.co.uk/how-to-take-rose-cutting/
I leave them alone for 12 months by which time they're ready to pot up or plant out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I do exactly the same as Dove Except that i put them in the ground.
I put them in the ground ... in a slit trench ... didn't explain it very well did I
I meant scroll down to this bit ...
"Growing a rose cutting in the ground
1. Rose cuttings can also be grown in the ground which is also very easy to do. Simply dig a trench around 20cm deep and put a layer of grit sand in the bottom of the trench which is 2-3cm deep.
2. Now take the rose cutting (as described above) ensuring you have a straight healthy cutting approximately 25-30cm (12inch) long. Remove the thorns from the lower half of the cutting, some gardeners even say to put a couple of small slits into the side of the bottom of the rose to help stimulate root growth.
3. Dip the cutting into rooting powder and insert the cutting approximately 15cm apart into the sand so they stand upright with around two thirds of the cutting under the ground. Firm around the base before filling the trench back in with soil and firming again around the rose cutting.
4. Keep watered during drier periods and by spring they should show signs of new growth. They may be ready for transplanting in spring but may be worth waiting until late October before transplanting them into pots or into the final position in the garden."
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oops, my mistake Dove, was so intent on reading the link which said pots?
I did mine in pots, two autumns in a row, but kept them outside in a sheltered spot. Most took. I think maybe you've mollycoddled them too much!
Thanks for the link Dove, as I was planning to do this in the next week or so, the information has been very apt and useful to me. I was going to make the cuttings approx 6 " long but here I have read 12 ". I will give this a try with some of my prunings and see what takes.
Cut them as long as you can and plunge them deep.
Before we moved I took cuttings of several roses - pencil length and thickness - and pushed them down the sides of terracotta pots filled with a mix of planting compost and perlite, 3 or 4 per pot, and then watered to settle them in. That was in September last year. They were kept outside against a south facing wall all winter.
By April, one pot had failed completely but the others had produced at least one viable plant per pot and Queen of Sweden produced 3. These have been potted on into individual pots to grow on and make strong root systems. Q of S has already flowered!
That's a good result by my standards Obelixx, some plants root far easier than others, and I always thought roses were trickier than most. With roses being so expensive to buy any success with them is worth trying - don't you think so?
I've never bothered before because I have always wanted specific varieties but these were ones I couldn't dig up and really wanted to try and take a bit with me to see if they'd work. Now I have to see which the 3rd pot is that survived as it, and the ones that failed, lost their labels in transit. The other success was a Teasing Georgia.
After this success, I shall be having a go with more to bulk up my stocks and thus save money for other plants.