Hi,
I am so excited, I just moved the starter soil from around my rose cutttings and they have rooted, this is my first attempt at rose cut rooting.!! I used 2 canes from my J&P climbers. I would love to try to root a cutting from a David Austin rose, an example would be ‘The Pilgrim", although color doesn't matter at this point. I love the look of the flower petals going round and round, so old and romantic. I would be happy if you would trade YOUR Austin cutting for anything on my list, seeds or plants, or postage stamps whatever you would like. I would love to try this.
Thank you, Kathy
This message was edited Feb 21, 2008 11:16 AM
Would anyone like to trade for a rose cutting?
Long story but I have 3 rose bushes in my garden room with leaves. I have older varieties, like joseph coat, Mister Lincoln, and one or two others. What rose did you take a cutting of?
I took cuttings off of 2 red climbers, Blaze and another J&P, but I forget the name.
I've already stuck all my cuttings, or I'd offer you some, but wanted to step in and say "CONGRATULATIONS!! on your rootings,~ yay!"
Thank you so much. Another rose person sent me some cuttings of Austins and they are in their mini 2 liter pop bottle greenhouse, I hope I am successful, I love to learn new things!
Kathy
I will add my congrats as well. I rooted my 'Natchitoches Noisette" and "Louis Philippe" last year and am itching to try again. If you are adventurous, I stumbled across information on the web about rooting florist roses, something I never even thought possible. I have to pick up something called "Superthrive", to use along with rooting hormone. Now I am looking at those rose bunches they sell at the grocery store with a new gleam in my eye. I love a good experiment.
good luck and let us know if they root for you. I read about that superthrive in one of the forums, they said it was the same ingredients as Miracle Grow but a lot more money. I will be interested reading if you thought there was any difference.
Kathy
I don't think they are the same thing, at all. I buy both.
Miracle grow does not have the vitamin B1(almost positive, but don't have a box in front of me), and I AM positive that it also does not have the hormones that superthrive has in it. Hormones help in a completely different way than fertilizer.
-T
In the instructions for rooting the florist roses, it discribes "Superthrive'" as a rooting activator. Don't know what exactly that means but it if works on florist roses, I will try it on some of my other hard to root cuttings and see if it makes a difference.
would you use superthrive along with the rooting powder? Where do you buy this, a store or on the web?
Kathy
Yes, they say to dilute the superthrive, 1 tsp to 1 gal of water, then soak the cutting in it for 5-10 min before dusting with the rooting powder and planting. If it increases my chances of getting cuttings to root, heck, I might go nuts and start rooting everything ;-) When you condider all the cuttings I toss out everytime I trim something...
I am going to look for it at Lowes, their website says available in store and on-line.
Trudi-
Can you post the link to the article you are referring to, please?
-Taylor
Once I saw references to rooting florist roses on another gardening site, I googled for instructions and that led me here:
http://www.gardenguides.com/how-to/tipstechniques/flowers/roses/easyrosepropagation.asp
to Easy Rose Propagation. I am going to try it with some of my garden roses, as well as a florist rose.
Good luck with your future rooting
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