How to propagate a rose?

Question

I have an old ablertine rose growing through a hawthorn hedge. I would like to take a cutting from this to grow somewhere else that it wasnt so smothered. How on earth do I do this successfully ?

Answer 1

Here, check out this site. It has step-by-step instructions as well as a visual how to.
It is very informative for beginners.
http://www.scvrs.homestead.com/Cuttings1.html
Good Luck

Answer 2

Hi, first things first is the rose a wild rose or cultivated eg on a rose stock. If its wild then you can do as smart E suggested and take a cutting, but if it is grafted the you need to bud graft it onto another rootstock. It can be done but is time consuming and difficult to do. I am not familiar with the term Albertine so I am presuming that it is what the British call a dog rose or wild rose if so go for it. They make great scrambling roses and give Autumn colour with the hips. The grafted type can be grown without the root stock but they can be either very vigour's or weedy depending on the nature of the rose, Small delicate stems and flowers will give you a weedy plant and vice versa that is why they are grafted in the first place, to control the vigour of the plant unlike grapes which have a disease and need to be grafted to grow well in Europe.If you are worried about damaging the rose and loosing it it is still available in Britain but that aside the picture that I have just seen suggests that you could remove the hedge to about one foot and erect a sturdy support then grow the rose up and over the hawthorn hedge. In Paris France it has reach a height of 12 foot against a wall. I can see why you want to keep the beautiful rose. Just a suggestion the hawthorn will grow back and protect the roses bare bottom stems.

Answer 3

This is an easy one to propagate...

There's two methods. You can try planting some of the summer prunings now (shoots that have flowered are ripe enough). Take lengths of about pencil thickness and about 8 inches long. Strip off the bottom leaves (leave a couple at the top), and stick them in a moist, shady part of the garden - two thirds of their length in the ground. Don't forget to water them. They will root over the winter, and should be ready to move by the following autumn.

You can also plant leafless cuttings, same sort of size, to two thirds of their depth, in the autumn, after the leaves have dropped off.

Most roses work quite well like this, especially the ramblers (like Albertine) and old shrub roses (Albas, Damasks, Gallicas, etc)

Best of luck.

Answer 4

The first step is to select a stem from the rose. Look for a healthy stem about 30cm (1ft) long from near the base of the plant.

The stem should include at least three buds (see picture on left). Stems should have been produced from early in the year (i.e. they are fully mature). If immature stems are selected (i.e. those produced later in the year), the cutting is liable to rot.

Cut the stem from the plant using a sharp knife or secateurs.


The next step is to correctly trim cutting. Firstly, ensure that you are holding the cutting the correct way up! In other words ensure that the buds are pointing upwards. Make a sloping cut just above the selected top bud. Make a horizontal cut juts below the selected bottom bud.

Rooting compound can be applied to the base of the rose cutting, although with hardwood cuttings this is not really necessary.
Finally, choose a small patch of soil in your garden which is not over-exposed to the winter weather (near a wall or hedge is ideal), then dig it over with a trowel. Simply push the cutting into the earth about half or two thirds down and gently firm the soil down around the cutting. Note the the name of your rose garden plant on a marker tag and insert that next to cutting.
several can be inserted near another, just ensure they are not touching.The rose cuttings should remain undisturbed until next autumn, by which time they should have rooted sufficiently well for them to be transplanted to their final position in your garden.

Answer 5

This is the way I do it:-
Select 3or 4 cuttings from mature wood about 12" long.Make a clean slanting cut from just below a leaf node. Remove some leaves from the bottom to leave at least 6" of bare wood. Dip ends in rooting powder and keep aside.
Drive a garden spade vertically into the ground about half it's depth. Pull the spade forward to leave a hole. Fill the bottom of the hole with about 3" of sharp sand. Place the cuttings against the back wall of the hole having pushed them slightly into the sand. Fill hole with earth and use your foot to compress the soil a bit. Water well. Do'nt touch them for at least a year. Success is not guaranteed but maybe you'll find are green fingered after all !!!
Good luck !

Answer 6

Take a rose cutting with sofwood on it, Then buy some rooting gel (gel 2 root), then place your cutting in the gel, then put your cutting in light, and in two weeks it will have roots growing on it, then transplant it in a 2-4 inch pot, keep it inside for winter, then when spring arrives plant it in the ground. Hope this helps Good Luck!

Answer 7

My wife does this as part of her online business.

Take a cutting off the plant at least 18".

Mix one part honey to three parts water and soak about 6 inches of the cut end in this mixture for 30 minutes or so.
Just stick it in a pot of well drained potting soil about eight inches deep and keep it moist. It will grow new shoots and in about a month roots will start to develop. In two months its ready to transplant outside.

Answer 8

You have to bud a rose you cannot take a cutting I think and put it on a root stock.

Answer 9

You can't. Roses are grown on root stocks. If you take a cutting and root it, you just don't know what you'll end up with.

Answer 10

Why not try all of them and use the one that gives you the best results. I would keep them in a North window so the sun doesn't over heat them.