My technique - in autumn, winter but also in July worked with GG!
Step 1 - cut a decent length of this year's growth, snap it off while trying to train it or pick up one that the wind has cut for you!
Step 2 - Cut it into a few sections 20-30cm, cut just below a bud at the bottom and just above a bud at the top. Angle cut at the top so you know top from bottom.
Step 3 - fill a 2l pot with soil, anything you have available, just make sure it can drain.
Step 4 - poke the cane sections into the pot with gaps between. You want them to be well buried but they need some soil at the bottom - Try not to stick them right through the drainage holes! Mine end up roughly half in, half out.
Step 5 - water them well to settle the soil
Step 6 - place the pots in a sheltered North facing spot so they're not wind blasted or subjected to strong sun.
Step 7 - forget about them, just watering if it ends up being dry, but in winter that's not an issue
Step 8 - check for roots at the bottom of the pot in spring. Then carefully tip out and repot the successful ones.
My GG went into its own individual larger pot straight away, so I've just left that in there. No need to repot. But the benefit of doing them all in a smaller pot is that it's easier to see when they've rooted and you can discard the failed ones without taking up a lot of space or soil for no reason.
With Bathsheba and Kew, I did three cuttings in a pot and two out of each lot of three were successful. With GG I just got one in a pot and it was a success. So that's not a bad rate! 5/7
I've had luck with a few cuttings. I do similar to you, taking sections in the autumn, but I use a bit of Clonex rooting hormone. Then just pop them in the cold frame and leave them be over the winter. If they take I pot them on in the spring, but leave them in a shady spot for their first summer so they can get a bit more established.
If it really matters that I get a plant I do absolutely loads - when my partner's gran died we took about 30 cuttings from roses in her garden, and were very unlucky to have only one take, but she's going strong, and I've got cuttings-from-the-cutting potted on now as an insurance policy.
This one I have trained up the trellis was a cutting from autumn 2018 taken from a plant that belonged to my mum. I haven't a clue what the original plant was called - vaguely think it was something like 'Sweet memories'.
I'd love to have a go at grafting cuttings on a robust root stock. Anyone done that?
Of two newbies racing to be first out, Mme. Antoine Mari is first. With pollen beetle, which beetled straight for it, had to shake of loads off to take the photo:
But Guy Savoy not far behind, beginning to show it’s subtle red and pink stripes. This is my first ever bicolour rose so I played a bit safe:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
First blooms on Susie and Purple Skyliner and couldn’t be more different fragrances: Susie is strong and citrussy but skyliner is super sweet and syrupy. I’m hoping the latter wafts nicely when more flowers open.
Everything is overpowered by my jasmine at the minute!
There was no rain predicted for days. I spent 2 hrs watering everything yesterday and now its raining and supposed to rain all day!
I've decided today is a good day to water in my anti-slug nematodes. Last week it was close to frost at night, so too cold to work. This week London had 28oC. Warm and wet is great. I'll still soak everything with a hose first as the rain is not heavy and not predicted to last much into the afternoon. I'm going to try and record the effects of nematodes.
This is my last go. If it doesn't make a significant, measurable, noticable effect I'm not trying again.
@Mr. Vine Eye I was eying up those pots as well, I was thinking for spring bulbs.. I was going to ask if you had "tested" them but you pipped me to it
@Omori Those are gorgeous Iris, such a lovely colour.
@Nollie I think it was you I was discussing with about Eyes for you's scent? Mine has a few buds out now and I stuck my nose in (I have a very strong sense of smell and occasionally the very weird memory scent recall where you can suddenly smell something just from memory so Im a real scent lover!) for me it actually has quite a classic floral rose perfume - its lovely. Not the strongest but I got a good fragrance from just a few that were newly opened when I put my nose in. I did notice my roses got noticeably stronger scents when I fed them empathy rose feed last year as well though as well as colour brightness so I do think thats had an effect.
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If it really matters that I get a plant I do absolutely loads - when my partner's gran died we took about 30 cuttings from roses in her garden, and were very unlucky to have only one take, but she's going strong, and I've got cuttings-from-the-cutting potted on now as an insurance policy.
This one I have trained up the trellis was a cutting from autumn 2018 taken from a plant that belonged to my mum. I haven't a clue what the original plant was called - vaguely think it was something like 'Sweet memories'.
I'd love to have a go at grafting cuttings on a robust root stock. Anyone done that?
Might stand a better chance of survival when I hit them with my car 😅
Any bearded iris fans? The season is finally starting for me. This one is called Gai Luron.
@Omori Those are gorgeous Iris, such a lovely colour.
@Nollie I think it was you I was discussing with about Eyes for you's scent? Mine has a few buds out now and I stuck my nose in (I have a very strong sense of smell and occasionally the very weird memory scent recall where you can suddenly smell something just from memory so Im a real scent lover!) for me it actually has quite a classic floral rose perfume - its lovely. Not the strongest but I got a good fragrance from just a few that were newly opened when I put my nose in. I did notice my roses got noticeably stronger scents when I fed them empathy rose feed last year as well though as well as colour brightness so I do think thats had an effect.