Not all roses will take cuttings, but it's worth a try! When you then see the first self-grown rose growing and blooming, it will make you particularly proud and will make you forget the numerous setbacks that are bound to happen.

Rose cuttings should not be planted out until they have roots

Make your own cuttings and root them

Producing rose cuttings yourself is quick and easy and can be done while cutting out faded shoots, but rooting is not always successful. There are various methods, but the following has proven particularly effective:

  • Take a shoot that has just flowered.
  • Remove flowers and shoot tips to over a full 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 trees take root more easily.
  • Remove all but the top two leaves.
  • Mix loose garden soil with sand in a ratio of 1:1 and fill it in a pot.
  • Put the cuttings in the ground up to the next leaf point - about two to three centimeters.
  • Press it down well and water it.
  • After watering, cover the cutting with a glass or plastic hood.
  • This can be a mason jar, but also a cut-off PET bottle.
  • Press the rim of the jar or plastic dome 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 next spring,
  • because rooting is easier in humid air.

Experience has shown that ramblers, tea roses, China roses, moschata roses and all wild roses are particularly easy to root.

Rooting in the vase

Have you received a beautiful bouquet of roses for a special occasion? You can also grow your own rose bushes from them, because thanks to the vase method, even cut roses can still be rooted. To do this, remove the flowers as soon as they have withered 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 do not like cold. Cut roses root particularly well in glass vases.

tips

Climbing roses, ramblers and shrub roses with flexible branches can be propagated using branches that are bent down - so-called sinkers.

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