No matter how beautiful the other flowers are, the queen is the rose. A variety of shapes and colors, combined with a marvelous aroma can not leave indifferent to this exquisite beauty.
The genus Rosa includes many groups: climbing, park, hybrid tea, groundcover, miniature, floribunda. Experienced gardeners know how to propagate a rose by cuttings, and during the season they can significantly increase the number of pets in their rose garden. Cuttings can be stem, lignified and semi-lignified.
There are many interesting ways of propagating roses by cuttings. The photo where the cuttings are stuck in potatoes is proof of this. It is believed that in this way they enter a clean nutrient medium, do not decay, and develop rapidly. Consider more traditional methods.
Stem cuttings
The rooting of stem cuttings lends itself well to most polyanthus roses, miniature and floribunda. Obtain root plants that do not give wild shoots.
How to propagate roses by cuttings? In the first half of summer, the upper part of the shoot is taken in the flowering stage, until the axillary buds have grown . Cuttings are cut with 3-4 kidneys up to 15 cm long. The upper cut passes above the kidney, the lower - under it. The upper leaves should be cut in half, the lower leaves should be removed.
Cuttings need to withstand 10-15 hours in the root stimulant. Then they land in a box or open ground. Well-dug up soil is sprinkled on top with a 5 cm layer consisting of a mixture (1: 1) of sand and peat or sand and coniferous sawdust. Level the soil, water well and plant the cuttings, deepening by 2-3 cm.
Cuttings are placed tightly, 3 by 6 cm. For high humidity, it is necessary to establish a hotbed, you also need good lighting. Optimum temperature + 20-25 degrees.
Cuttings are rooted for 2 months, but the young root system may not survive the cold. If you leave them in the open ground and cover well for the winter, some of the cuttings will die. It is better to dig them in the sand in the cellar or basement until spring. In spring, seedlings are grown in a place protected from wind and moisture and reach maturity. Now they can take a permanent place in the garden.
Propagation by lignified cuttings
If a climbing beauty grows in the garden, it is better to take lignified cuttings. When and how to propagate a rose? Cuttings should be stocked in the fall. Take annual matured shoots half a centimeter thick. The leaves are removed, the shoots are tied into a bundle and instilled in a dry place, covered with a film on top.
In the spring they are cut so that there are 4-6 buds on the handle, and immersed in water. Having taken out of water, immediately plant and water. Cuttings need to be deepened, leaving 1-2 kidneys above the ground, squeeze the ground. Initially, a film shelter is required, by mid-summer it is removed. In August, the plants bloom.
Semi-lignified cuttings
How to propagate a rose by cuttings during the summer with a good survival rate? During flowering, cuttings with two leaves are cut from the middle of the semi-lignified shoots. The bottom sheet is removed, the top is shortened.
Planted in boxes with good drainage according to the 3x6 scheme, deepening minimally. Put in the shade, cover with a film. Cuttings need diffused sunlight, temperature + 20-22 degrees, high humidity. Rooting will be better if you additionally heat the bottom of the box. With an increase in soil temperature in relation to air by 1-2 degrees, the roots grow faster. After a month, the root system appears in the cuttings, but they should spend the first winter in the basement.
Disappearing beauty. Rooting a rose from a bouquet
Many women who were presented with a chic bouquet of Dutch roses with long thick trunks are thinking about how to propagate a rose with cuttings. This can certainly be done. But we must take into account that these roses were created for a different climate, their own-root system will not withstand the winter cold, and growth will be slowed down.
If the bouquet consists of zoned local roses, then we can hope for success. The cultivation technique is similar to the rooting of stem cuttings, and the greenhouse can be installed on the windowsill.