Grafting is one of the typical forms of rose propagation. A hybrid tea rose - which is often less vigorous and susceptible to disease, but blooms all the more beautifully - is budded onto a more robust and vigorous rootstock. The aim of this art is not only to make the beautiful roses more robust and resilient, but also to get large rose bushes faster.

When grafting, beautifully flowering hybrid tea roses are usually combined with robust, fast-growing wild roses

What you need for finishing

In order to graft a rose successfully, you basically only need three things:

  • a good grafting knife
  • a suitable base
  • a beautiful rose

The budding knife is part of a rose grower's toolkit, as is the sharp kitchen knife for the cook. Wild roses are primarily used as a rootstock, as they have particularly strong roots, are usually hardy and also quite insensitive to the typical diseases of roses. Rosa canina (dog rose), rosa multiflora (multi-flowered rose) or rosa laxa are used particularly frequently. Plant this base in the garden either in late autumn or early spring. Finally, in August you can do the oculation.

Instructions for grafting your rose

Finally, the best time for grafting is August. By this time, the wild rose rootstock will have grown well, and the hybrid tea you have chosen is probably in full bloom. Now you can proceed according to plan.

Cut and prepare fresh shoots

First of all, cut a hybrid tea shoot with a freshly faded flower and remove all leaves and spines from this flower head. But be careful: Leave the leaf stalk on the shoot, because the required eyes are located directly below it.

removal of the eye

Now first disinfect your grafting knife so that no unwanted germs can penetrate the wound and ruin the work. Carefully break off the left petiole and cut out the eye underneath. To do this, place the budding knife just above the eye and make a sharp, vertical cut downwards. Carefully fold this piece over and remove the piece of wood resembling a fork. What remains is the actual green eye, which you now insert into the base.

Cleaning the base and inserting the eye

To do this, first expose the root neck of the underlay, clean and disinfect it. Then cut a "T" into it and carefully fold its ends over - carefully push the eye into the resulting pocket. Make sure you use the eye the right way round! Otherwise the shoots will later grow in the wrong direction instead of upwards as desired. Fold the ends back together and connect the graft area with a special rose elastic.

What you still have to do after the refinement

Now you have to be careful, because in the following spring the shoots should only emerge from the grafting point, but not from the rootstock. Wild rose shoots should not be cut off (this promotes their growth even more), but snapped off directly at the base.

tips

If you shy away from this effort, you can often multiply the desired hybrid tea with cuttings or sticks.

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Vegetable garden