Rooting rose cuttings - this is how it works

Root rose cuttings and care for them properly

Make and root cuttings yourself

Making rose cuttings yourself is quick and easy and can be done on the side while cutting out dead shoots, only rooting is not always successful. There are several methods, but the following has proven to be particularly effective:

Take a shoot that has just faded.
Remove the blossoms and the tip of the shoot up to over a complete leaf.
The shoot should be at least as long as a pencil,
however, a length of about 30 centimeters is better.
The reason for this is that longer woods take root more easily.
Remove all but the top two sheets.
Mix loose garden soil in a ratio of 1: 1 with sand and fill it in a pot.
Put the cuttings into the ground up to the next leaf base - about two to three centimeters.
Press it down well and water it.
After pouring, cover the cutting with a glass or a plastic hood.
This can be a mason jar, but also a cut off PET bottle.
Press the edge of the glass or plastic hood firmly into the soil.
The first shoots appear after eight to ten weeks, sometimes a little later.
In strong sunlight, the cutting should be shaded.
Leave the hood over the cutting until the next spring,
because in humid air, rooting is easier.

Rooting in the vase

Have you been given a beautiful bouquet of roses for a special occasion? You can also use them to grow your own rose bushes, 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 cold. Cut roses take root particularly well in glass vases.