What to do now roses have rooted
mary nightingale
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Hi - last year 2014 I took 7 cuttings in June from an already bloomed 40 year old climbing rose. I have never took cuttings before. The parent rose was my mams and she died the year before so these cuttings are very precious to me. 4 of them died but 3 survived. I scraped some green skin off, dipped them in rooting powder and pushed them into some soil in yogurt pots. Just before xmas I saw they were rooting well so put them into bigger pots. They were left in a little potting shed with glass roof. Now they are well established, and have lots of lush foliage but I am not sure what to do with them now. They are about 7" tall and have not been fed or had anything special in the pot, just soil. They will want to go outside soon, but I feel like a mum who is sending her kiddies off to school for the first time. Any advice on how / where / when to move them into their permanent pots would be appreciated. I am so scared I do something silly and kill them as they are a lovely reminder of my mam.
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Potted roses even cuttings, can go outside at any time of the year, but I'd leave it a month for the soil to warm a bit before planting out. Don't feed them just yet, when planting add rootgrow to the planting hole along with some bonemeal and farmyard manure. Water them in very well, and mulch them with some more farm yard manure. They should grow away well. Prune by half after planting.
Wow thanks for the swift reply
When you say prune by half after planting, do you mean as soon as the hole is fille din round the plant and how much shall I prune back? This is one of the plants,sorry I dont know how to turn the pic round xx
If that is typical of the roses you have, don't prune in the first year, let them establish, and next year you can hard prune. Roses take a year to get going, but once the root system has grown, and they're happy, you'll be rewarded with plenty of blooms.
well done mary, hope they do well for you. itook 7 cutting s of my gertrude jekyll last autumn, advice here was to leave undisturbed for 12-1 8 months which is what i'm doing ( it's sooo hard not to know how they're doing!) only a couple aren't black, fingers crossed, i'd love 3 more gertrudes
Well done to you too ! I will do as Dave suggests, and just let them get established this season, I am amazed I have managed to get them to root, having being told in the past how much faffing about rose propagation involves....heat pads and feeds and specialist things, so to have my 3 growing merrily with only the basics is a real buzz. I dont even know the name of this rose, whether its a bush or tree or what. I know it climbed about 50 foot up a wall and we were forever having to lash it to the old brickwork. Mam never had a garden, just a tiny area given up for plants in her back yard. The rose grew in a little soily area 6 foot by about 3 foot and although me mam has gone its nice that her roes might live on
all but 2 of my cuttings are black, is it worth leaving them or shall i just consign them to the green bin?
Sorry for butting in on your question but I have a similar question. Well over a year ago I watched Monty cut off long stems from his roses and just plant them in the ground. I couldn't believe how easy it was to take a cutting off a rose (mine is a shrub type). I did several and they are all budding successfully again this year. What I would like to know is how do they turn into shrub roses similar to the ones I took them from. What I have at the moment is the long stem 10/12 inches or so and then some side buds. I am a bit confused. Also I assume I can move them now into their long term position?
Not sure hun, I am new to all this and am just pleased that 3 out of my 7 have survived winter. I am so scared of upsetting them and doing something to cause them to die. They are all getting little thorns on the stems, I feel like a proud parent whos kiddie has got its first tooth lol.....If yours are budding for a second year you must be doing something right. Mine have also decided to put out long stems and their roots are now just showing through the bigger pots. I will pot them on at the end of April and try to harden them off day by day, then leave them out all summer and hope for the best but by then I will hopefully know a bit more about how to care for them. You can try taking 1 pot to a local garden center and asking for their advice
Hi all, hope you are all well..... thanks to your sound advice the 3 rose cuttings are out of their little pots and growing, but I have a couple of issues....now I can show you a pic of their growth pattern can anyone confirm these are climbers.....and why are the leaves curling up? I have tied them back and they look healthy enough apart from the leaf issue. Also, the older dark green leaves are shiny and smooth / slippy to the touch like the back of a spoon, but the curly ones which look a bitdiscoloured feel rubbery, not slippy like the others.....thanks in advance for your thoughts. Here are 4 pics with text.