How to save the planting material of roses (cuttings) before planting

Since roses are one of the most popular types of flowers, many people want to have a bush of such a plant in their garden or even on a windowsill. There are many ways to reproduce roses, one of the easiest and most popular is the reproduction of flowers by cuttings. However, quite often cuttings, for example, from a bouquet presented in winter, must be preserved until spring. Consider how to do it right.

Rose propagation

Compared to grafting or the seed propagation method, grafting is easier and more successful. Among the advantages of this method of breeding flowers can be identified:

• Plants grown in this way are easier to care for, since their roots, as a rule, do not grow much and do not hover;
• roses, grown by grafting, tolerate winter well and are restored from dormant buds, even if the top layer of soil freezes through;
• It is not difficult to get the material for growing, because the cuttings can be cut off from the presented bouquet.

Most often, grafting is carried out in the spring, early or mid summer. In order not to cut off the twigs that bloom just at this time, you need to take care of the cuttings in the fall. At the same time it is important that the plant from which you will cut them is healthy and has shoots with a diameter like a pencil. In this case, the chance that the flowers will germinate is much greater. At a permanent place cuttings should be planted at an angle of 45 °.

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How to prune cuttings

To begin, consider what types of roses are most suitable for grafting:

• any variety of polyanthus or miniature roses;
• roses Excelsa;
• some types of semi-woven roses;
• rambler climbing line;
• roses variety "Flamentants";
• Iceberg and Rosalind varieties of the Floribunda group.

Important! You can determine whether the bush is ready to cut the cuttings by needles: if they break off easily, you can safely cut them.

1. Before you start cutting the branches for planting, you need to prepare the tools. This can be a very sharp knife or scissors, the instrument must be sterilized before use, dipped in boiling water.
2. The cuttings should be 12–15 cm long, with each one having 2-3 leaflets and the same number of buds.

3. From below, it is necessary to cut off with bevelled movements, and from above it is even to distinguish the sides. The lower leaf plates and spikes need to be cut off after cutting. To preserve moisture in the cuttings, it is recommended that the leaves remaining on each of them either be completely cut off or simply shortened by cutting 1/3 of them.

4. In order for the roots of the cuttings to grow faster, you can dip their lower part in the solution "Kornevina" or "Heteroauxin". Or use a mixture of half a teaspoon of honey, 200 ml of water and crushed rose leaves to stimulate root growth.

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Options for saving cuttings in winter

In order for the branches that you want to plant to be preserved until spring and, last but not least, take root, it is important to know how to properly store them. There are several basic ways to store cuttings in the winter.

Moss rooting

To root the cuttings of roses in moss, you must select the correct moss: it must be sphagnum, previously treated with "Fitosporin". The bottom of the plants themselves must be treated with a growth stimulator, which can be bought in a regular store with garden accessories. Then the twigs must be wrapped in a sphagnum and a plastic bag or newspaper and left in a cool place until early spring. In the first few days of March, rooting of cuttings can begin.

1. To do this, you need to get them out of the moss and cut the thorns.
2. Then prepare a special box for disembarkation: put moss on the bottom and sprinkle it on top with river sand (3 cm layer), plant twigs in it and cover with a plastic bag. At the same time, do not forget to make sure that the box has normal air circulation: make small holes in the bag with which you will cover the box.
3. Put the box with flowers in a warm place, but in such a way that there is no access to direct sunlight.
4. Watch the moisture in the soil: if it is dry, spray the plants and the ground with fresh water.

Did you know? AT Valentine's Day in the world sells the highest number of roses - about 3,000,000 flowers.

Rooting in potato tuber

The next method of storing roses in the winter is rooting in potatoes. Since this vegetable is rich in starch and other nutrients, the flowers in it rather quickly take root. For this purpose, it is necessary to choose healthy potatoes of medium size, process them with a fungicide and cut out the eyes. Prepare the cuttings as follows:

• we cut off almost all the leaves and grease the bottom of the stems with a solution of potassium permanganate;
• You can pre-put them in aloe juice for 10-12 hours to sprigs of moisture.

1. Then it is necessary to make dimples in the potato, with a diameter like the stems of a rose, and place cuttings in it.
2. Potatoes with sprouts should be placed in the ground in a usual pot for flowerpots and sprinkled with a not very concentrated solution of potassium permanganate, then cover each of them with a jar of such size that it does not touch the leaves of the plant.
3. For several weeks, water the cuttings regularly; water once a week with water and sugar (one tablespoon per glass of water).
4. After a month, you can apply fertilizer to the soil and start accustoming the plants to the air: lift the jar and fix it in this position for a while, then completely remove it.
5. You can completely remove the jar when the plant gets used to the air; this usually takes several days. If during the stay of roses in a pot, buds begin to appear, they must be cut off.

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Storage in the basement or refrigerator

Rooting roses can occur in the garden.

1. To do this, prepare the cuttings in the summer and plant them in the soil with a mixture of washed large river sand and chernozem. Should be planted in the wells, filled with manganese solution, at an angle of 45 °.
2. After planting the cuttings must be watered and covered with cans.
3. During the month, when the daytime temperature is not lower than +25 ° C, and the nighttime temperature is not lower than +18 ° C, the plants will take root, buds may appear, which must be cut off so that the young plant does not spend strength on flowering. Toward the end of the month, start not taking off the cans for long, so that the roses breathe, then remove them altogether.
4. Closer to September, the plants will reach 30-40 cm in length, then they can be dug up with small lumps of soil so that they can be kept in a basement or a refrigerator before planting in the soil.

Snow storage

1. In order to keep cuttings in the winter outside, you need to dig a hole 15 cm deep in your garden or garden, put a cotton cloth on its bottom, over which lay cuttings without leaves.
2. Then you need to cover the twigs with another layer of fabric and cover with earth. It is important not to forget to mark the edges of the pit with stalks, so that in the spring it would be easier to orient where you hid the roses.
3. In early March, dig up the cuttings and carefully inspect them for the presence of callus, a growth on which the roots sprout. Plants with roots will land on a place where they should grow further.

Important! If you are not going to plant the plants in the ground immediately after you dug them up, but postpone planting the next day, you need to put them in water with a few drops "Epin".

Storage on the balcony in boxes

If you live in an apartment and it will be more convenient for you to keep cuttings on the balcony, you can do it in the following way:

1. At the end of autumn, cut off twigs of 20 cm in size with several buds.
2. Put the box on the most illuminated and warm place on the balcony.
3. Pour a large layer of expanded clay and soil for flowers into the box, moisten the soil a little.
4. Dip each individual stalk first into the water, then into a means to stimulate root growth, and finally land in the soil.
5. Wrap the box in cellophane and warm blankets.
6. Do not water the plants very often, sometimes let them breathe air, removing cellophane from above (this should be done in good weather).
7. At the time of severe frosts (below -20 ° C) it is better to move the box to the apartment.
8. In the spring, remove each individual stalk from the box using a tablespoon so as not to harm the neighboring sprouts.
9. Plant flowers in a permanent place.

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Did you know? The oldest rose bush in the world harbors the wall of the cathedral in Hildesheim in Germany, and its age is about a thousand years. During World War II, the bush was damaged, but the preserved root again sprouted in 1945.

Roses are very popular among gardeners flowers, so there are many ways to reproduce them. Cutting - the most convenient way, which usually brings the desired result. However, in the spring to bloom your roses, it is important to know all the subtleties of their reproduction by cuttings and storage in winter.

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