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How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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Posted by ymv13 Essex. UK (My Page) on Fri, Jul 1, 05 at 15:23
| I am a complete novice gardener and would love to be able to take a cutting from a 40 year old rose bush in my front garden (blooms every year)so that I have have the same variety in my newly landscaped rear garden.
How do I do this, and when is the best time?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Yvonne |
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RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| Hi Yvonne, It is not at all difficult. I've done this many times. Choose a straight stem and cut off about 12inches from the top just below a leaf node. Pull off the leaves along the stem and leave just two at the top. Dig your spade into the ground where you want it to grow, wiggle it about to form a narrow hole and bury about six inches of the cutting into this wedge. Firm up the soil around the cutting, name it, water it and watch it grow. Within a few weeks you will see more leaves appear, which is a sign that it has taken. Leave it in this spot until next spring, and then uproot it carefully and replant it. I usually take three cuttings off a plant and share the extras with friends and neighbours. You can use this method for many other perennials too, like ceonothus, clematis, geraniums, potentilla, euonymous, hebes, weigela and even abutilon. Just make sure you pick a healthy straight stem. For other flowers I only use about 6-8 inch stems and they work very well. Do tell us how it goes,
Iona |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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- Posted by ymv13 Essex. UK (My Page) on
Sat, Jul 2, 05 at 10:36
| Thank you. I will give it a go. Yvonne |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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Yvonne, l do mine in a similar way, last year l tried this for the first time, l cannot believe how easy it was.
My method is this:- cut lengths of rose stem, about 1ft, strip off some of the lower leaves, cut below a leaf joint,dip in hormone rooting powder, and plant up to one third of the stem in a very deep flower pot, about five to a pot. Label them, and stand the pots outside, l did put mine overwinter in the cold greenhouse, but two l just planted in the border, did as well.These were taken last summer and by this summer, they have made bushes, as big as those you buy in pots, and all are flowering. |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| Anyone tried rooting apple cuttings? I have to trim a damaged stem off my Red Sentinel crab and it has 3 nice shoots on it. I know they can be grafted but it seems a waste not to try rooting the cuttings. Brian |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| Brian, I think a hardy tree like a crab apple might work from a cutting. Why not try it? You might end up getting a different tree to the one you have, but why not? Iona |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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For what it's worth there is another method of producing another rose bush and that is by air layering.
With a sharp clean kinfe make two parralle cuts about 11/2 inches apart around the circumference of the stem through the cambium layer then connect the two cuts wiyh one long cut and remove ring of bark exposing woody tissue.
Apply sphagnum moss (moist not wet) to the wound and then wrap in clear polythene wrapper. Tie off both ends to stop moisture escape and to curtail pathogen invasion.
From this wound adventious roots will form and when this occurs cut off just below root formation and plant out new plant where required. |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| Is it too late to do rose cuttings now? Or when all the leaves have fallen? Or is it better to do them in the growing season? |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| I was wondering whether you could just plant your winter prunings. |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| Concerning the idea of cuttings from crab apples. You will get an identical plant from a cutting. It's seed where you might get something else. This is, of course, providing you take your cutting from above the graft point if your tree is grafted. Regarding rose cuttings, I have a climbing Buff Beauty grown from a cutting which is fine but if your original bush is grafted on to a vigorous rootstock you may find a cutting on its own roots is weaker growing. |
How do I take a cutting from a rose bush? and hazel
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Rats, forgot to take my rose cuttings earlier in the summer. Is it too late now?
I think I'll try anyway, but thought I'd ask. Also, what is the best time to take cuttings from a hazel? Corylus avellana. |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| The normal time of year to take rose cuttings is autumn. You take a hardwood cutting and bury it either in the ground or in pots in a cold frame until the next autumn. The likely success rate is 50 per cent. Many of the old roses are better from cuttings because they will spread slowly on their own roots - and you don't have to worry about suckers. The problem (as Flora says) comes with Floribundas and Hybrid Teas which may grow weakly. |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| I am wanting to start growing roses. I know its not the name of the type of rose just the marketing name but i adore the look of grand prix rose's. Can anyone tell me the name of the strain or where i can possibly buy either cuttings or seeds for this strain. any help on this matter would be much appreciated. Many thanks. Zye |
RE: How do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
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| You say you adore the 'look' of grand prix roses but if you mean the kind which are sold by florists, as you say, they are not a specific variety of rose. Secondly, they will have been produced in highly artificial conditions which would difficult for you to maintain in a home garden. They are especially grown for long stems and perfect blooms which you cannot do at home without specialist knowledge and facilities. I would suggest you visit some rose collections or nurseries and choose some red roses which appeal to you then buy some bushes. That way you can also select a variety with a scent, someting florists roses seldom have. You could always try growing some cuttings from a bought bouquet if you want a challenge. What you will not get is seeds for any nsmed rose. |
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