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Cloning rose bushes

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wordwiz

I figure this section is the only place this thread can go, since they really are not food, let alone peppers!

Is this hard to do? One site made it sound as easy as falling out of tree - snip a shoot, stick it in potting soil and keep it damp.

Surely it isn't this easy?

Mike
 
They'll root, but some roses are grafted onto different root stock. I don't know what the criteria are for which roses grow on their own roots, and which ones are grafted.
 
An hydroponic system will clone almost any plant I have attempted. I have a fellow gardener who has been trying to reproduce a sterile hybrid Father Hugo’s rose for 30 years unsuccessfully by air and soil cutting propagation. In August of 2002, I took an axial slip, put it in a rock-wool cube, placed it in a grow cup with grow rocks, put it in the hydroponic garden and, three months later, replanted to soil a rose with a very nice root ball and new growth on every branch.
 
It is extremely easy to "clone" roses, you make a cutting when the plant is just about to break dormancy...early spring before any buds have developed, dip the cut end in rooting hormone, place in sandy(cactus soil and fine gravel work well, or bonsai mix) moist soil, place a covering over the cutting to keep moisture in and you should have a rooted seedling in about 4 weeks! I think it tells you how to do this on the American Rose Society's website.

Also try starting some seeds from rose bushes....this is a Geoff Hamilton seedling (open pollinated) from last year's bush...

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Two days after slicing a new shoot off two plants, they are looking great and good. One has developed several sprouts, the other a couple. They are in potting soil, sitting in bowls that I keep water in. They are sopping up water faster than IGG sops up beer!

Whether they will develop roots is still to be seen.

I'll try to take some pics tomorrow once the lighting is better.

Mike
 
I have a motto saying: "If you can't eat, smoke or sniff it... it ain't worth growing", but I do admit some of the roses I've seen online are beautiful. if there's a chance I can do the same, I'll start grow roses right now. obviously any good cloning advices would help me a lot.
 
Omri,

I'm not a fan of any bush whose sole purpose is to look good but also attacts bumblebees. But these knockout rose bushes bloom from early May until late October, pretty prolifically.

Even if this experiment works (and I'm hoping it does!), I don't see them being ready to plant until mid-June at the earliest. But if it does - I'll have a section of a room set up just for them for next year. I might be able to sell enough plants (they go for $15-25 each) to afford all the tomato, pepper and potato seeds I would like to buy.

Mike
 
I worked for several years growing greenhouse roses but have had poor luck growing them outside in my climate. Interesting how most commercial hybrid tea roses have very little smell to them since this is not often an important variable when breeding.
 
I have no problem with bees, I may even get a hive. The bee populations are decreasing causing lots of pollination issues worldwide.
 
wordwiz said:
They sting - several times. And they are aggressive.

Mike
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Bumblebees? What are you doing to piss 'em off? I don't think I've ever been stung by a bumblebee. They love basil flowers, so they're all over my garden in the summer, and I just brush past them when I'm in the garden.

Maybe my southern bumblebees are are like us southerners, a little more laid back and hospitable then northern bumblebees.
 
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