rose cuttings

Please could every one cross their fingers for me? We had a lovely old climbing rose which had to be dug up because of the building work. I took 3 cuttings dipped them in hormaone rooting powder and put them in the soil. I read that you can do root cuttings this way on more vigorous climbers. I'm hoping that it will work, I'll keep you posted.

 

Fingers crossed for you Celia - leave them well alone for a long time. The only success I ever had with a rose cutting, was after 6-9 months - and then I lost it by moving it too soon.

 

Thanks for the advice Fran. Although I only planted them 3-4 weeks ago they are developing new leaf buds so it looks quite promising. I will leave them where they are for a lot longer though.

 

Don't let them get water-logged, whatever you do! I had a pot-full that looked really promising, when I had to go away, and left someone else to water everything. I lost the lot.... :(

 

All good advice from Fran and dendrobium.

Just go for it! Nothing to loose. As Dendy has said, don't let them get waterlogged and don't let them dry out either and do resist the temptation to peek at the roots. Give them at least a full year and preferably 2 before you move them.

I did some rose cuttings last year with about a 50% success rate but patience is more than a virtue, it's a neccesity with all hardwood cuttings.

 

i too had to recently move a much loved rose . i cant tell you its name because its at least 30 years old . its smell was beautiful though " you couldve bottled it" so i took about a half dozen cuttings of it and put them in a container with a layer of sand in the bottom, kept the "stump" and replanted it too. ive great faith in plants coming back and im sure ill have a nice new rose next year. think ill keep my fingers crossed just in case . good luck with yours.

 

You too Tig, I've lost one cutting but the other 2 are still flourishing. We've managed to save the original root as well so fingers crossed that it survives too.

 

I took 6 rose cuttings and lost two.If they servive the winter I have done well.

 

a year ago, i took several cuttings of my climbing roses, Handel, pink perpetue, danse du feu and compassion. I took several of each. And by this spring, a few had taken root, so i potted them up and by summer i had some nice roses in flower, and sold them too. So this year i took loads of cuttings. Quite a few from customers gardens (with their permission, of course). I don't put the cuttings in a nursery bed and sand trench. I put them in the polyt, in large pots of compost 3 or 5 ltr pots, 5 -7 cuttings per pot. i dunk them in hormone rooting powder, then leave them to it. By Feb, those that are still alive are potted seperately and them cared for with watering, feeding and training. The ones i put in the nursery bed, never came to anything last year, so ihave decided to continu with my original successful way.

 

good for you Compostee.another one with green fingers. keep it up.

 

Update: just to let you know that the roses we dug up are coming into leaf and the one remaining cutting is also showing a leaf bud. It looks promising!

 

Fingers crossed, Celia!