Hybrid tea roses bloom particularly beautifully, but often have less desirable properties. Their roots are weak, growth is rather moderate and susceptibility to disease, frost or less than ideal site conditions is high. For this reason, such rose varieties are often grafted onto more robust wild roses, for which the so-called grafting method is usually used.

A healthy, well-grown young branch should be selected for grafting

Passing on self-grafted roses is not permitted

However, grafting is not only used to give hybrid teas more robust properties and to propagate them to the desired extent, but also when breeding new rose varieties. However, you should be aware that even grafted roses may not be passed on! Many varieties are subject to plant variety protection - similar to copyright - so that the breeding and distribution of these varieties is reserved for the actual breeder. If you do not comply with this, you are committing a criminal offense and can be held responsible for it.

Always use sharp and clean tools

In addition, refining is only successful if you not only work carefully, but also use clean and sharp tools - after all, you don't want to carry any germs into the open wounds. This also includes carrying out this work only with clean hands or even with disposable gloves. It would also make sense to get a special budding knife for budding, at least if you intend to do it more often. Otherwise, a razor blade will help.

Rooting roses - That's how it's done

Roses should be grafted in summer, with the month of June being particularly suitable. Then the rose is in full juice and the chances that the two parts will grow together is particularly high.

  • Choose a suitable, hardy and healthy wild rose with strong roots. This is the pad.
  • Cut them back heavily.
  • Now cut a fresh branch from the tea rose to be propagated.
  • This should have a faded flower and have at least five leaves.
  • Remove all leaves so that the base of the petiole remains.
  • The flower and spines should also be removed.
  • The required eyes are located above the petiole bases.
  • First, remove the green, thin skin over it
  • and cut out one eye using a grafting knife.
  • Now clean the corresponding area on the underlay
  • and cut a T-shaped incision into the rose skin.
  • Push the eye in there and cut off excess plant parts.
  • Fix the place with raffia or with a special finishing gum.

The grafted area should never be touched with the fingers in order not to carry infections into the open wound.

tips

As soon as the first shoots appear, pay attention to where they sprout: Below the grafting point, these are always shoots from the rootstock that must be removed. One shoot of the graft should be pruned back to three buds to encourage the plant to branch.

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