Propagation: Propagating/Grafting Roses, 0 by billgrubbs

billgrubbs wrote:
Beautiful tree Stake!

With a little vacation, I have built my long awaited aeroponics system and got it running after several trips to HD. It involves plumbing and that always takes me at least 3 trips. I have put 35 cuttings in to see what happens. I built it similar to plans I found on this site. Since I never see any more postings about them, I wonder if they are still being used or not. I guess I will find out how it works.

I had a bunch of confederate rose cuttings and tried a new technique with them. I cut a long 8 inch strip from a black plastic bag, laid it out flat on a table and covered it with spangun moss (not peat, but the stringy kind). I wet it down good with a sprayer, dipped the cuttings in rootone and laid them on the top 1/2 of the plastic. I folded up the bottom half over the cuttings and rolled them up into a nice tight roll and secured them with some rubber bands. I will keep the moss damp and see what happens. The only thing I don't know is, should I cover the tops with a plastic bag to keep the humidity up?