To decorate the garden and fill it with a pleasant aroma, you should plant lush rose bushes. These flowers retain their decorative effect for a long time, but require careful handling and careful care. With special scrupulousness, you need to study the rules for cutting roses at home.
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Benefits of autumn cuttings and a step by step guide
To get abundantly flowering rose bushes from cuttings, you should wait for the onset of autumn. It is recommended to start the procedure in late October or early November. In regions with harsh climatic conditions, the procedure is postponed to September or early October.
Unlike propagation by grafting, grafting has several advantages:
- It is quite easy to care for the plant, since it does not form numerous root shoots.
- Rosebushes respond well to sudden cold snaps and adapt to harsh winters. The flower will begin to develop even after a long winter and partial freezing of the buds.
- To obtain planting raw materials, you can use cuttings of any types and varieties of roses.
If you do not deviate from the step-by-step instructions and do everything correctly, after a short time, the cutting will form strong and healthy roots. Full flowering will begin in 2 years. Cutting a rose in the fall is performed as follows:
- To begin with, the florist should select shoots for planting. They should be ripe and healthy, with a shiny surface. The optimum thickness of the cuttings is 5 mm. It is not recommended to use cuttings cut from fattening green shoots for breeding. Also, there should be no signs of damage or other defects on their surface.
- The shoot is divided into several segments 10-15 cm long. Each specimen should have 3 to 4 developed buds. A light straight cut is made from above. The tips are removed with a well-sharpened secateurs or a knife.
- The lower leaves on the cuttings are cut out, and the upper ones are shortened by half. In addition, the grower will need to get rid of all the thorns on the rose.
- The prepared material is stored until transplantation. The bottom ends can be wrapped in newspaper and placed in a bag. From time to time, the shoots are moistened.
- On the day of planting, a weak solution of potassium permanganate is placed in the container, in which the cuttings will be kept for a day.
Alternative method
In the circle of flower growers, alternative methods of propagating roses in the autumn are widespread. You can put the shoots in boiled cold water, which is changed every 2 days. In this state, planting specimens can be kept for 15 days until a whitish ball appears in the upper part of the shoot - it will indicate the presence of an embryo of the future root. You can start transplanting the seedling into the soil already at this stage. The method has both advantages and disadvantages: being in water, the cuttings feel oxygen deficiency and are subject to decay.
For the formation of viable roots, the cutting must receive a lot of oxygen. You should also evaluate the temperature regime of the air and soil, and also provide the flower with abundant lighting.
Have you tried growing roses from cuttings?
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