Do you - or your neighbor / a friend or someone you know - have a particularly beautifully blooming and vigorous climbing rose in your garden that you would like to propagate? Go ahead - it's not as difficult as you might think!

Propagation from cuttings is promising for climbing roses

Propagating climbing roses by cuttings

The easiest way to propagate climbing roses is through cuttings that are cut immediately after flowering. The best time to take the cuttings is August when it is still warm and sunny. The shoots are well mature this late in summer, so the chance for rooting is all the better.

  • Choose several shoots that are about 15 to 20 cm long and have just flowered.
  • Each shoot should have about five to six eyes.
  • Cut these off the mother plant with sharp, sanitized rose scissors.
  • The cut surface should be kept at a slight angle.
  • Remove all but the top two leaves.
  • Dip the cut surface in a rooting substrate.
  • Now plant the cuttings in a pot at least 30 centimeters deep with sandy potting soil.
  • Each cutting should have its own plant pot - roses don't like competition.
  • Water the freshly planted cuttings well.
  • Put a cut-off PET bottle or a mason jar over the cutting.
  • This serves as a mini greenhouse and is intended to provide a warm, humid climate.

The successfully rooted rose cuttings can be planted in their final location in May of the following year.

Success rate is about 30 percent

Take several cuttings at once, even if you only want to grow one or two plants. With climbing roses, the success rate when propagating cuttings is around 30 percent, which means that only one out of three offshoots will take root.

Propagation with sticks

Instead of cuttings, you can also cut sticks in late autumn or winter. This is a well lignified piece of shoot from which all leaves are removed. These shoots, which are between 20 and 30 centimeters long, are stored in moist sand, overwinter in a cold and frost-free room and can be planted in a sand-peat mixture from March. The rooted cuttings can finally be planted out in autumn.

tips

The success rate of rooting is said to increase if the cutting is placed in a potato (which is also planted).

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