Rose Cuttings..

[LucyGoose]

This looks pretty cool!!

http://www.amateurgardening.com/home/ta ... -cuttings/

[kHT]

Goose, for years I have been just cutting and putting the cutting where I want another rose. No fussin' with it just cut and push into the ground.

[LucyGoose]

Did you read it? They stuck them in a potato, then buried!

[kHT]

Yes Goose I read about the potato but why waste the potato if all one has to do is just stick them in the ground? That is like some that will put
an egg in the ground also when starting a brugmansia? What a waste??

[LucyGoose]

I am thinking some are not as lucky as you....my cuttings did do that great....oh well....

[Bob Scott]

Hardwood cuttings in the fall are simple. When I start rose cuttings in the early summer I put them in a "greenhouse". I take opaque, plastic milk bottles and cut the bottom out. Then I put it over the cutting, leaving the lid off. Ideally not in all day sun or they can cook. Keep moist but not wet. It's a balance in the Midwest summers.
If the new canes are flexible then I layer them. Most tea roses are to stiff for that. Own rooted rugosas will send up suckers that can be dug up and used.
Layering is my preferred method for most any plant with branches that can be pulled to the ground easily.
I started a Mcnartney rose in the basement a few years ago. Under heat mat and keeping it from drying out with a frame and Saran wrap around the frame. Plant lights of course. 12 hrs on, 12 hrs off.