Truly, the rose is the queen of the garden, a luxurious culture that, with proper care, every season pleases the eye with bright abundant flowering and lush greenery. Getting these garden flowers on your site is not as difficult as it might seem at first. Possessing the necessary minimum knowledge and skills regarding the reproduction and care of young seedlings, you can easily replenish your collection with a couple of new wonderful specimens. The most popular way to propagate this horticultural crop is cutting roses in the summer. Let's talk about it in more detail.
Rose cuttings: preparing planting material
If you decide to grow luxurious flowering bushes on your own plot, then it is better to carry out cuttings of domestic roses grown in the open field, and not purchased ones, expelled at an accelerated pace in greenhouses and greenhouses and treated with special chemicals for better preservation.
So let's do a few simple steps:
- From strong he althyplants in May-June, we cut off the shoot with a faded bud so that it contains three buds: one (lower) will be in the ground, the top two will be above the soil surface.
- Cuttings of roses in summer are best done using the middle part of the shoot. We make the lower cut oblique, immediately below the lower kidney, the upper one is straight, about 1 cm above the upper leaf sinus.
- On the two lower nodes we remove the leaves, leaving only the petioles, and on the top we leave 2-3 plates out of five.
- For 12-16 hours, the lower ends of the cuttings are immersed in a solution of any agent that stimulates growth and root formation, for example, Kornevin.
Rose cuttings in summer: planting in the ground and caring for young seedlings
Location on the site
Prepared cuttings can be planted both in the ground directly on the site, and in separate plastic pots with holes in the bottoms. The soil should be loose and fertile. It is better to choose a place moderately lit, but protected from direct sunlight, as young seedlings will quickly wither in the heat, not having time to take root and take root properly.
Disembarkation
Cuttings, the lower end of each of which can be pre-dipped in Kornevin powder, are placed in pre-moistened soil at an angle of 45 ° so that the lower bud is in the ground and the upper leaves do not touch the soil surface. If you are cutting roses in the summer, it is better to cover young seedlings with a glass jar,a plastic bottle with an unscrewed cap or film to create a suitable microclimate, and leave it in this state for the whole season and even until next spring. For the winter, these mini-greenhouses shelter in the same way as adult bushes.
Care
Young cuttings should be regularly sprayed with warm settled water, avoiding excessive soil moisture, as this can lead to decay and death of seedlings. Once every two weeks, you can apply a solution of the drug "Kornevin" to stimulate root formation.
For which varieties is this method more suitable?
The experience of gardeners shows that cuttings of climbing roses work best, the situation is a little more complicated with tea hybrids and the Floribunda variety. But if you set yourself the goal of having a certain type of this garden flower crop on your site and make every effort, you will definitely succeed!
