Truly a rose is the queen of the garden, a luxurious culture that, with proper care, every season pleases the eye with bright abundant flowering and lush greenery. To plant these garden flowers on your site is not as difficult as it might seem at first. Having the necessary minimum knowledge and skills regarding reproduction and care of young seedlings, you can easily replenish your collection with a couple of new wonderful specimens. The most popular method of propagation of this garden culture is the cuttings of roses in summer. Let's talk about it in more detail.
Cutting roses: preparing planting material
If you are planning to grow luxurious flowering bushes on your own plot, it is better to cut domestic roses grown on the open ground, rather than purchased, driven out at an accelerated pace in greenhouses and greenhouses and treated with special chemicals for better preservation.
So, we follow a few simple steps:
- In May-June, we cut off the shoot from a strong healthy plant with a faded bud so that it contains three buds: one (lower) will be in the ground, two upper ones - above the soil surface.
- Cutting roses in the summer is best done using the middle part of the shoot. The lower section is made oblique, immediately under the lower kidney, the upper one is straight, about 1 cm above the upper leaf sinus.
- On the two lower nodes, the leaves are removed, leaving only the petioles, and on the upper leave 2-3 leaves of five.
- For 12-16 hours, the lower ends of the cuttings are immersed in a solution of any agent that stimulates growth and root formation, for example, the Kornevin preparation.
Cuttings of roses in summer: planting in the ground and caring for young seedlings
Plot Location
Prepared cuttings can be planted both in the soil directly on the site, and in separate plastic pots with holes in the bottoms. The soil should be loose and fertile. It is better to choose a place that is moderately lit, but protected from direct sunlight, as in the heat the young seedlings will quickly fade, not having time to take root and take root as it should.
Disembarkation
Shanks, the lower end of each of which can be pre-dipped in Kornevin powder, are placed in a pre-moistened soil at an angle of 45 ° so that the lower kidney is in the ground and the upper leaves do not touch the surface of the soil. If you cut the roses in the summer, it is better to cover young seedlings with a glass jar, a plastic bottle with a screwed-off lid or a film to create a suitable microclimate, and in this condition leave for the whole season and even until next spring. For the winter, these mini-greenhouses are covered in the same way as adult bushes.
Care
Young cuttings should be regularly sprayed with warm, settled water, avoiding excessive moisture in the soil, as this can lead to decay and death of seedlings. Once every two weeks, you can use the solution of the drug "Kornevin" to stimulate root formation.
For which varieties is this method more suitable?
The experience of gardeners shows that cuttings of climbing roses are best managed ; tea hybrids and Floribunda are a little more complicated. But if you set a goal to get a certain type of this garden flower culture on your site and do your best, you will surely succeed!