Cuttings don't work on all roses, but it's worth a try! When you see the first rose you grew yourself growing and blooming, it will make you particularly proud and will make you forget the numerous setbacks you will have had.
How to root rose cuttings?
To root rose cuttings successfully, cut a dead shoot and remove the flowers and shoot tip. Place the shoot in loose, sand-mixed soil and cover it with a glass or plastic cover. Wait about 8-10 weeks for the first shoots.
Make and root your own cuttings
Making your own rose cuttings is quick and easy and can be done while cutting out dead shoots, but rooting is not always successful. There are various methods, but the following has proven particularly effective:
- Take a shoot that has just bloomed.
- Remove flowers and shoot tip to over a complete leaf.
- The shoot should be at least as long as a pencil,
- However, a length of around 30 centimeters is better.
- The reason for this is that longer woods root more easily.
- Remove all but the top two leaves.
- Mix loose garden soil with sand in a ratio of 1:1 and fill it into a pot.
- Place the cutting in the soil up to the next leaf base - about two to three centimeters.
- Press it well and water it.
- After watering, cover the cutting with a glass or plastic cover.
- This can be a preserving jar, but also a cut-off PET bottle.
- Press the edge of the glass or plastic cover firmly into the soil.
- The first shoots appear after eight to ten weeks, sometimes a little later.
- If there is strong sunlight, the cutting should be shaded.
- Leave the hood over the cutting until next spring,
- because rooting is easier in moist air.
Experience has shown that ramblers, tea roses, Chinese roses, moscha roses and all wild roses are particularly easy to root.
Rooting in the vase
Were you given a beautiful bouquet of roses for a special occasion? You can also grow your own rose bushes from them, because thanks to the vase method, even cut roses can still be rooted. To do this, remove the flowers as soon as they have wilted and leave the stems in the vase until roots form. To do this, you should place the vase in a bright (but not directly sunny!) and warm location and change the water daily. Use warm water if possible because roses don't like the cold. Cut roses root particularly well in glass vases.
Tip
Climbing roses, ramblers and shrub roses with flexible branches can be propagated by bent branches - so-called lowering ones.
