About six weeks ago I took a rose cutting. I have had successes before trying to get them to 'strike' roots in a pint pot filled with our very own well water.
The leaves fell off some of the cutting and the water went green and murky. So today I checked the cutting today and joy of joy my cutting had struck roots.
Anyone else have success with rose cuttings in a pint glass 🍺 of water?
Cheers Mother Nature.
Yes, a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteI have as well, I did try the pintrest trick and popped cuttings into potatoes, sadly no roses, but the potatoes were very tasty.
ReplyDeleteI love it when my cuttings are successful and strike roots GZ. I have seen some Buddleia flowers this week that would look great in the garden with the others and they always attract lots of butterflies 🦋.
ReplyDeleteI have a thug of a rambler/climber..you have reminded me that granddaughter wants one..The thug needs a restraining prune so I'll try a couple of pieces in water.....
DeleteYes or may be three or four wild rose cuttings?
DeleteI can do both then she can choose!
DeleteGood 💡.
DeleteHi Marlene. I like to try and root a few cuttings in water in a glass above the kitchen sink. In September will make lots of shrub cuttings in pots of compost covered with my cut down plastic bottle cloches. I also divide plants to make more plants.
ReplyDeleteI did try to strike rose cuttings directly into the soil but never found out if they would have rooted. P pulled them all out. He doesn't like roses.
ReplyDeleteHow can any one not like roses JayCee? They are such a quintessentially English garden favourite.
Delete"Six Weeks Wait For A Rose Cutting To Root" sounds like the title of a county and western song. The next line would be, "Got a big hole in my wellington boot".
ReplyDelete"I beg you pardon. I never promised you a rose garden".
ReplyDeleteLynn Anderson or Marie Osmond
DeletePaper 🌹roses.
DeleteDave & Poppy Patchwork will be playing at the village hall on Friday night so get out your cowboy boots and come along to the hoe down.
DeleteProbably the best Country and Western title was by The Bellamy Brothers: " If I said you had a beautiful body. Would you hold it against me".😀
DeleteI would remind you of Jerry Reed's immortal song: "She got the goldmine...I got the shaft." Or Hoyt Axton's "Officer Ray" (Officer Ray, may your hens never lay, may the rats eat your mail, may your testicles fail. Officer Ray, I hope you have a bad day, and may your wife run away with a hippie...)
DeleteOh yeah. Have you ever heard the song about the day the squirrel went berserk in the First Self-Righteous Church. Ray Stevens.
DeleteI think we have started something here Debby. Keep them coming.
DeleteI think my wife married an hippy. I do love nature.
DeleteIf you are a hippy Dave, you need to wear a kaftan with loon pants and a beaded hair band. You also need to smell of patchouli oil, eat macrobiotic food and give up your allegiance to Kansas.
DeleteI could all the above except give up my allegiance to Kansas. That is unconditional YP.
DeleteWe have grown a couple of roses from cuttings in the past. They don't always take. Seeing shoots is always a something to celebrate.
ReplyDeleteEven pheasant shoots?
DeleteIf you take enough cuttings you will get good results Linda.
ReplyDeleteSimple and moving
ReplyDeleteSpot on John.
DeleteI’ve often tried to strike cuttings in water. Some do amazing others not so much. But I persevere and try others. Great way to get free plants
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Angela. I am always propagating by seed, cuttings or division.
Deletehave never tried roses Dave - assumed that like apples they have to be grafted. I guess species roses might strike from cuttings. I'm working on lavendar at present - dipped in honey, poked into compost, and sealed in a big plastic bag.
ReplyDeleteI have good success TM with rose and shrub cuttings. I believe honey is very good for promoting root development.
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