Roses from a Cutting

Hello everyone.

My friend is a florist and she received a delivery of beautiful red roses, hybrid teas I think (although I must admit I don't know much about them except that they are gorgeous). I bought one of the stems and decided to try and grow a plant from the cutting. Here's what I did exactly; I filled a pot with soil, made a hole through the soil with a knitting needle, cut the bottom inch of the stem at 45 degrees and made cuts at a few other places along the stem too and rubbed them with some organic growth hormone powder. The stem had no leaves but still had the flower head attached. I put the cutting into the hole in the soil so that just the flower head was outside. I put an empty glass jar over the flower to keep the whole cutting humid.
It has been in there for around a month now and I have kept it well watered. The problem is, the flower is just about completely dead now. I understand that this isn't a bad sign, the flower would die anyway but I'm afraid that if I leave it in there it will rot and cause the stem some unnecessary trouble but I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to remove the jar for even a few mins to get the flower out of there and also can the cutting, at this early stage, take the trauma of having the flower head removed?

This is the first time I have tried to grow something from a cutting so any help on this issue or any other advice you can give me about growing roses from a cutting would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Max

 

Thanks for the reply wiseoldowl,
I was unaware there was any other method that differed greatly from this one, during my research all i could find was this method and variations of it. Will keep you posted on how it goes. Hopefully someone will be familiar with this method.