MY NO-FAIL METHOD OF PROPAGATING ROSES

I HAVE BEEN USING THE METHOD DISCRIBED ON THIS PAGE AND IN THE VIDEO BELOW FOR PROPAGATING ROSES FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW. I USED TO BE LUCKY TO GET THREE OR FOUR CUTTINGS OUT OF TEN TO TAKE ROOT. WITH THIS METHOD I  ACHIEVE AT LEAST A 90% SUCCESS RATE!

 ONLY FOUR WEEKS BEFORE THE PHOTO AT RIGHT WAS TAKEN IN MAY 2010 THIS YOUNG ROSE WAS STILL A CANE ON THE MOTHER PLANT. NOW IT IS ROOTED IN ITS OWN POT.

THE VIDEO MENTIONS USING ROOTING HORMONE, WHICH DOES HELP, BUT IS NOT AT ALL NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENT RESULTS. 

                   Start A Rose

     Click on the Rose Propagation video below to see how

                                       it is done.     

               This is also an exceptional way to propagate Hydrangeas.

  Below are the 6 easy steps to start a new rose.

         (and the new rose is free!)

Step # 1 - Locate a low growing cane of the rose plant, or bend a cane down to the ground. It's best to use a firm but young cane.

Step # 2 - Dig a trench right under the rose bush about eight inches long and two inches deep, pointing out from the rose.

Step # 3 - Strip the leaves from several inches of the cane that you have chosen, make a shallow nick, or cut,(less than 1/4 the way through the cane) in the part of the branch that will lie in the trench. You may apply rooting hormone on the cane around the nick, but it is not necessary.

Step # 4 - Position the cane, still attached to the mother plant, in the trench. Leave three to six inches of the end of the branch sticking out of the trench, and bury the cane with about two inches of soil.

Step # 5 - Place a stone or some other weight over the buried cane. Keep evenly moist for several weeks. The buried rose cane will develope roots in four to eight weeks.

Step # 6 - Carefully check the progress in a month or so, if there are no roots yet cover the cane back over, replace the weight, and wait a couple of more weeks. If there is a good growth of roots cut the cane from the mother plant and pot it up or plant it in the garden. You now have a new baby rose just like the mother rose!

I have also used this propagation method on other shrubs with great success. We have a Red Twig Dogwood and several "Endless Summer" Hydrangeas in the yard that we started with this method.  It is nearly fool proof. Try this, you will be surprised how easy it is.  Good luck with it. -  Rick

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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

                                                                          Quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln

 

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