Many gardeners want to master the technique of propagating roses by cuttings, but not everyone succeeds in this matter. The reason is difficult to determine, since each has its own. Let's try in this article to figure out what needs to be done to create a beautiful rose garden on your site and spend as little effort as possible, and most importantly nerves. After all, there are many ways that will help to learn the propagation of roses by cuttings at home.
How to root a stalk
The simplest and most common way for everyone is considered the summer rooting of cuttings of roses. Cut them best in the morning or late in the evening. Not all shoots are suitable for rooting, but only those that have recently bloomed or, conversely, have only released buds. And also good shoots should be half lignified. There is one sign by which it can be accurately determined that the stem is ready for cutting - spikes easily break off on it.
To cut the shoots, it is necessary to use very sharp tools, which must be sterilized. The length of the handle should be from ten to twelve centimeters. A prerequisite is the presence of two leaflets and two living buds, neither buds nor flowers should be on the handle. The slice should be oblique and extend under the bottom node. Spikes and leaves are considered redundant and therefore must be removed. They will not be required and indeed will take in the moisture that the cuttings need more. Before planting, it is recommended to withstand the shoots in a special preparation that stimulates the formation of roots. In order not to splurge in the store, you can prepare such a solution yourself. To do this, half a teaspoon of honey is taken and diluted in a glass of water, rose leaves are finely chopped there, and then the cut shoots are lowered.
How to provide care for cuttings
You can do the rooting of cuttings directly in the open ground, there is nothing complicated about this. For this, coarse river sand and fertile soil are mixed in equal parts. Wells for cuttings are made in this substrate and spilled with a barely pink potassium permanganate solution. After that, chopped cuttings are lowered there at an angle of forty-five degrees and instilled. After this, the garden bed must be watered, and the cuttings should be covered with glass jars, which will become a kind of greenhouses for them.
It will take about a month to root by cuttings, if the air temperature does not fall below twenty-five degrees during the day, and below eighteen at night. Through a jar, you can easily notice that a young shoot gradually begins to hatch from a kidney that has remained on the surface. When the young shoots will already be two weeks old, they need to be "introduced" to the environment. For this purpose, jars are removed from them daily for several hours, and after a while they should be removed completely.
This fall, the shoot height should be forty centimeters. Be careful: they can produce buds, but you do not need this. Therefore, pinching is necessary. Why is this needed? A young plant will spend too much energy on flowering and because of this, the root system may form poorly and this flowering will be the last for it.
These are the general rules that most gardeners use to propagate roses by cuttings. However, there are many more methods that are no less effective.
Roses in potato
Few people know, but a very effective way of propagating roses by cuttings is in potatoes. Before embarking on the process of preparing the shoots, it is necessary in the spring to select a well-lit place on your site and dig a trench about fifteen centimeters deep there. A five-centimeter layer of sand is laid out in it. After this, cuttings must be cut. Each of them should have a length of twenty centimeters, all leaves and thorns should be removed. For each of them, you need to choose a tuber of medium-sized young potatoes. Potatoes also need to be prepared by removing the eyes from it. So, we stick the cuttings in the tubers, and then lower them into the trench and leave two-thirds of the length of the rose underground. The distance from one handle to another is fifteen centimeters. In this case, roses are also better for a while to cover with banks.
What's the secret? Young potatoes not only provide roses with constant access to moisture, but also give them plenty of nutrients, as well as starch. Provide regular watering to the seedlings, as well as every five days, future roses are watered with sweet water. For this, two teaspoons of sugar is taken in one glass of water and watered with this solution. Two weeks after the landing, you can begin to clean the cans, and another fourteen days later you can completely get rid of them.
What to do with a bouquet?
Why not try the propagation of roses by cuttings from a bouquet, if you really liked the variety? Many gardeners quite successfully use this method. But remember that with this method you can only root cuttings that are cut from roses that have grown in our country. What is the reason? When other countries send their flowers for import, they treat them with special solutions that deprive the plants of their ability to root.
In addition, there are several more features that must be considered if you choose this method of reproduction:
- For rooting, choose roses only from fresh bouquets. You can not take those that have been standing in a vase for several weeks.
- A stem that is already slightly lignified is best for you.
- On the handle of medium thickness at the top and bottom must be alive kidneys.
Do not spare the bouquet you just received. Cuttings are cut in fifteen centimeters long. They remove all flowers, buds, thorns and lower leaves. As for the leaves in the upper part, they are simply shortened by a third. The resulting cuttings are placed in a glass dish with distilled water. Water must be changed periodically so that it does not stagnate. When the first roots begin to appear, it is possible to transplant into pots in the manner described above.
Reproduction in a package
Cuttings are cut in the traditional way, which was mentioned more than once. Soil is placed in a regular bag, which can be replaced with wet sphagnum moss. It must be moistened with aloe juice, which is diluted in proportion: one part juice and nine parts water. In such soil or moss lower the lower part of the handle, inflate the bag and hang it on the window. Because of the fog that forms in the package, a kind of greenhouse is created. Under such conditions, cuttings take root within a month. Planting in pots or open ground is already known in every way.
Landing under the winter
In this way, gardeners decided to simplify their task a bit so as not to store cuttings for the whole winter in anticipation of spring. After all, often you get a very beautiful rose as a gift, but it happens in the fall, and I really want to keep such a copy. So why not take advantage of such a simple and effective way. The cut stalk is simply instilled in the area, and covered with dry leaves or other materials from above. This is necessary to protect it from severe winter frosts. In the spring, the stalk is taken out and planted on the garden bed.
Burrito Method
The method of reproduction is quite dubious and only experimenters use them. You can thus try to propagate roses by cuttings in the winter at home. However, no one will vouch for the result. So, the cut shoots are wrapped in a wet newspaper and sent to a dark place for two weeks, the air temperature should not exceed eighteen degrees. After this period, roots should appear on the cuttings. But not everyone is lucky.
Trannoy Way
You can try this method. Here you will need the shoots of those roses that have already bloomed. Wilted flowers cut and observe the plant. cuttings can be cut only when the buds on roses begin to swell. The resulting cuttings are planted in open ground in a sunny place. Deepen them at an angle of forty-five degrees. In one hole you can place several shoots at once. From above, they are traditionally covered, but the containers should be large, since the coating is not removed until winter. Greenhouses are not removed under any circumstances. Even watering and loosening is carried out around the tank, but not inside.
Conclusion
These were the most famous ways that you can use to deal with the propagation of roses by cuttings from a bouquet in winter or spring. And also it is possible to plant cuttings in the summer. Study each method separately and choose the most suitable for your plants. Since each gardener finds something of his own and uses one method throughout his life.