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roses from seed
Louize Hodson
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Last year I got some rose seeds and I stratificated them and they started to grow, I put them in little pots and they got to around 1 1/2inch tall, but now they have gone brown, is this normal for this time of year (they have been on windowsill in kitchen) or are they dying.
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Hard to tell from the picture but they don't look too healthy. Indoors isn't where they wanted to be. Have another go and leave them outside. Sown around now, outside or in a cold GH, they will germinate in spring. Unless you have a very small rose it will be a lot bigger than 1 1/2 inches by this time next year.
My Rosa rugosa, sown late last year, flowered in July/august at 18inches tall.
Treat them more harshly
In the sticks near Peterborough
Don't mollycoddle them. Rose seedlings will take anything the weather can throw at them. The leaves will drop off i winter, but they will reshoot in Spring.
I did not know roses could be grown from seed. My guess is it is quite slow from seed to flower?
I just use the stems from flowers from supermarkets. They root in water after a month or so. I have tried roses from lots of supermarkets and M&S have the best rate in rooting for me.
No slow blairs.
I was amazed. First year flowering from R. rugosa. Not so from R. majalis, still reached a foot tall though. Dunwich rose, don't know its species name, is being very slow.
No good if you want the fancy cultivars of course
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In the sticks near Peterborough
blairs
would you explain how you take rose cutting from supermarket stems please
Ooh yes please blairs
Saw some very beautiful apricot roses today and would love to grow some like that.
After much failure:
Cut off the flower, pick off all the leaves and the bottom most thorns
Change the water every other day
Keep the stems in a light windowsill
Only the bottom inches need contact with water
Thicker stems tend to root before rotting
It takes 4-6 weeks for the roots to appear - you can see the white bumps.
Best success is around now till March.
As soon as the bumps appear I put those in well draining soil outside.
Do not give up on them. As long as the stem is turgid and not rotten/moulded it is still viable.
blairs, should they go straight outside or spend some time in the greenhouse?