If I cut off a brach off a rose bush I have on the side of my house and put it in water will it sprout...?

Question

I would like to try and get some rose bushes growing in other spots around my house and was wondering if this is possible, never tried it before..

Hoping it will work but wanted to ask here.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Of course not. Buy new rose bushes from a nursery.

Answer 2

It is fairly simple to propagate roses. If you have a rose that is very special, and you can't find one like it in the local nursery, take a cutting from it... not a thin little one, but a thick cutting, about 6 inches long, and dip the bottom half of it in water first, and then in "rooting hormone", (available at your garden shop), and then gently put it into sandy soil (or any with good drainage), without disturbing the coating, and water it thoroughly, and KEEP it damp....do not let it get dry! Put it in the shade, NOT in the sun. You will have to wait at least several weeks, but eventually, it wll put out a teeny sprout near the top. You can even leave a small sprout near the top at the start, but it can only support a teeny one, so if the sprout has several leaves on it, you must cut off all but one-half of one leaf. Watch it closely, check it daily, and be SURE IT DOES NOT DRY OUT. You can even cover it with a piece of plastic wrap, or a large-mouth jar. When it does sprout, you will need to take care of it until it grows a little more, and it is a lot of trouble for such a little plant, since it will not bloom for at least a year or more. But if you can't buy it anyplace, and you've just GOT to have a rose exactly like it, that's the way you do it. Good luck!

Answer 3

Roses are very difficult to root, it would help if you understood about the layers of a plant stem. If you can carefully skin off the outer layer up about an inch or so from your cut, you will have better success(while also using rooting hormone).

A method that works very well for roses is layering. You could do air or soil layering, this means removing a couple of leaf sites and skinning the outside layer of "bark" off of the stem and either bending the cane and "planting" it around 4 or 5 inches deep in the earth (soil layering) or wrapping the skinned segment with soaking wet moss, then plastic wrap (air layering). The former works well with pliant branches while the latter is better for stiff canes. This allows the mother plant to keep feeding and supplying water to the soon to be cut child... once roots or callous form you can cut it off below the formation (don't check this too often, give it a few weeks, but be sure to keep it moist, especially when air layering).
I've successfully done the soil method with wisteria, but that was much easier given the bendability of the shoots. This link should be helpful.

http://www.goldcoastrose.org/shared/rooting-roses.htm

Answer 4

The best luck I have had is to cut the branch off, trim any limbs or leaves off of it and cut it into about 6 inch lengths. Plant it in some good soil vertically about 3 inches deep and take a pint jar like they use for canning and turn it upside down over it. Water the bed regularly but don't take the jar off until the stem has sprouted out well with leaves.

Answer 5

Propagation works on roses quite easily, just select a pice of rose bush that is not too hard or too soft about 6inches long, cut bottom at an angle and dip in some honey and place in a pot of potting mix and place in the shade with a platic bag over the top.

Answer 6

an aunt of mine taught me this many years ago. I have been successful about a third of the time. Cut a tender shoot at the point where it connects to the main branch. remove lower leaves. Plant it halfway underground. cut the top off a 2 litre soda bottle. push it down over the cutting about 2 inches into the ground. you have made your own little greenhouse. water every day that it doesn't rain. It will either dry up in a few weeks or start getting new growth.

Answer 7

Absolutely! I've tried this over and over and over and this spring I finally had success. I let my cuttings stay in water for about two weeks (I was very busy) and then I re-clipped the bottom tips, dipped them in planting hormone up to the second lowest bud, and gently inserted them into some good potting soil.
I kept the little pot on my window sill to make sure it stayed moist at all times, and of the 6 cuttings I had taken, 2 survived.
Here are a couple of websites that might help:
http://www.rkdn.org/roses/propagate.asp
http://www.frontrangeliving.com/garden/rosecuttings.htm
Happy Gardening!!!

Answer 8

No. For the same reason why roses from a florist don't sprout when you put them in a vase.

Find some good propagating resources if you want to grow roses.

Answer 9

No not that way. Maybe if you soak the end in water it may sprout, but I doubt that also. Just buy some rose bushes, they are hard enough to grow as it is without trying some that seems impossible.

Answer 10

Try cutting the stem at a 45 degree angle after putting the end of the stem under water. Cut it while it is still under water. Another method that might work is a compound that is called "rooting hormone" cut the stem and dip it in the powder before you place it in water. Wait for the "buds" to form at the bottom and then place it in the dirt. It might work. good luck

Answer 11

My mother used to cut a branch off of a neighbors rose bush & place it under a brick in our yard where she wanted it to grow & water it & it grew. Her thumb was very green tho.