Rose is the queen of flowers. A gardener who managed to get a lush flowering bush on his site will proudly demonstrate it to his friends and acquaintances. But this flower can also be grown at home.
The most common way to grow roses is from cuttings taken from soil roses. This method of reproduction is suitable for climbing roses, floribunda, miniature varieties, hybrid-polyanthus. Harvesting of planting material is carried out in autumn from annual semi-lignified or green shoots. In this case, you should choose those of them that are located on the side and are not very developed. The rules for growing roses from cuttings are quite simple. Herbaceous young and fatty shoots are considered unsuitable for this purpose. It is necessary to choose annual stems that have already finished growing, their thickness can be from four to five millimeters. Their better rooting will be facilitated by their high carbohydrate content. Selected shoots must be with buds. An interval with two or one internode is chosen on the stem, respectively, with two or three leaves.
The bottom cut should be made at an angle of forty-five degrees underthe lower kidney, and the upper one should be straight, five millimeters above the kidney. To reduce evaporation, it is recommended to completely cut off the bottom sheet. Before growing roses from cuttings, they must be processed. Growth stimulants are used. They are able not only to accelerate the rooting of the plant, but also to increase its roots. For this purpose, an aqueous solution of the drug "Heteroauxin" (200 ml) is suitable. The lower end of the lignified cuttings must be immersed in it by two-thirds and left for 2 days. Planting material obtained from the green stems of the plant is dipped into a weaker solution of the same preparation (forty-forty-five milligrams per liter of water) and kept in it for 12-15 hours.
Don't assume that learning how to grow indoor roses is troublesome enough. You just need to know what kind of care the flowers need. After the “bath” from the root former, the cuttings are recommended to be placed in wet moss or peat. Planting material can be stored at home, in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. Also a valid option is to dig them into the ground. At home, flowers can be planted in boxes after callus has formed on the stems. Seedlings should be almost completely buried in the ground and be in an inclined position. Then they should be watered abundantly and sprayed several times a day. To prevent moisture from evaporating, the seedlings must be covered from above: with polyethylene, plastic bottle, glass.
An experienced florist, explaining how to grow a rose, will definitely recommend, except for plantingseedlings in a pot with sand and soil, another way to breed them. It is quite simple. Cut cuttings should be dipped in boiled water, changed regularly. Seedlings should be kept like this until roots form, this happens after twenty to thirty days. Then they can be planted and kept on the windowsill. If we compare the options for growing roses from cuttings, we can conclude: the most successful is planting plants for rooting in pots with fertile soil.
