How to keep a rose with an open root system before planting?

The times of the Internet have changed our lives. Now we can make purchases of planting material in virtual stores all year round, including all winter.

Roses are a great decoration for any garden or flower garden. In recent years, the range of offered varieties of roses has significantly expanded. And not only domestic but also foreign production. Seedlings from Dutch, English, French, Polish, German nurseries began to come to our market.

There were even roses from original producers -

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, Meilland, Guyot and other nurseries with a solid history. Finally, we have the opportunity to see wonderful creations of breeders in our gardens, striving to embody the qualities of these flowers most demanded by gardeners and collectors in new varieties.

Today we have access to rose seedlings, which in past years could only be dreamed of.

There are so many varieties of roses now that it is very difficult to decide on your desires. Each of the roses is so beautiful that you definitely want to see it in your garden. And thank God that there is winter, and this year is also so long!

But time, as always, passed unnoticed, and now it's time to get seedlings again. One of these days, they should send me roses. It's April outside, but it's impossible to get out into the garden - the snow is knee-deep. What to do? What is the best way to preserve the seedlings before planting?

There are several ways to preserve roses before planting. I had to digest a lot of information from gardening sites, from forums of gardeners and rose growers, in order to draw some conclusions for myself that I want to share with you.

Keeping roses with an open root system

If you have purchased seedlings with an open root system, in an excellent dormant state, then try to keep them like this until the very planting in the garden. To do this, you need to create an optimal storage temperature for them. For such seedlings, according to various sources, the recommended temperature is from - 4 (if the buds did not move further than the green cone) to + 2 ... + 3 degrees. In such conditions, your rose will continue to sleep.

Keeping awake rose seedlings

What to do if your seedlings have already advanced buds or even decent sprouts have already appeared? The main thing in such a situation is not to panic! There are several storage options that can preserve these plants.

The first thing to do is to provide such seedlings with an upright position. If they are stored lying down, then new shoots will certainly rush up, as Mother Nature tells them, and when you plant such a rose in the ground, the shoots will be in a horizontal, unnatural position. The shoot will tend to align and grow crooked.

Strong shoots on such seedlings, if you have to overexpose them for some time before planting in the ground, it is best to remove them. These shoots suck out the nutrients accumulated by the seedling in the roots and stems, and the probability that these shoots will not disappear is negligible.

If the sprouts are small, you can try to keep the plants in the refrigerator or cellar with mandatory constant monitoring.

You can plant roses with large sprouts in a container. This is the most unpleasant option for them. After all, you can plant plants in the garden only when the threat of frost has passed. They will need to be protected from the bright sun, drying wind, because they grew in greenhouse conditions. And it is not a fact that hardening and protection from sunburn will lead to success.

Pre-planting in pots is not the most desirable option.But if the roses have already started to grow, then for a while, before planting in the ground, we plant seedlings in pots, still trying to restrain the growth with a low temperature. Later, you will also have to arrange for them to be illuminated with a fluorescent lamp. After all, the day is still short, and they will have little natural light.

Before planting, you need to straighten curled roots, cut off rotten and broken ones, refresh the tips and lower them deeper into the water. If the roots have been dried, then they should stay in the water for a day or at least a night, and certainly not less than 3-4 hours.

I sometimes kept my roses in water for several days. And it didn't hurt them. But among those that I planted before without soaking, many died. It is better to replace the water for soaking with a sodium humate solution of the color of strong tea or weak coffee (instant :))

The ends of terrestrial shoots should be trimmed to living tissue, especially if they have been damaged or moldy. It is a good idea to treat the seedlings after that with a solution of "Previkura" at the rate of 25 ml per 10 liters of water.

After soaking, roses can be planted in containers with prepared soil. If the sprouts of the seedlings are quite large, they need to be shortened, the small ones can not be touched. They are planted in high containers, the root collar is left at the soil level or slightly higher. And that's all.

 

Rose seedlings are planted in the ground, only after waiting for steady heat. Now the roses need to wait for steady heat. They can be planted in the ground, most likely, in the month of June. But then, when planting, the seedlings will need to be deepened by 5-7 cm. Many recommend not to deepen the graft. Then the roses begin to bloom profusely earlier, but in this case there is a high probability that the plant may die in a frosty winter.

If you are interested in the topic of growing roses, see a very useful publication on our website We Grow Roses Yourself. 6 videos to help novice growers.

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Happy spring to everyone in the garden!

You bought your favorite flowers in advance and now you don't know what to do with them? We will tell you how to preserve rose seedlings before spring planting.

If you purchased roses in autumn, winter or early spring, then you should try to keep the seedlings until the onset of heat. Your main task is to make sure that the kidneys on them do not wake up ahead of time. For this, the seedlings need cold and darkness. These conditions can be achieved in several ways. Choose the one that suits you best.

1. Storing rose seedlings in the refrigerator

Perhaps this is the most convenient and common way, because every home has a refrigerator. Seedlings with an open root system are wrapped in wet sphagnum or wet paper towels, put in a plastic bag, tied and stored in a vegetable compartment at a temperature of 0 to 3 ° C.

Seedlings with a closed root system (in containers) are also placed in the refrigerator - along with the container.They are simply wrapped in polyethylene to maintain the desired moisture level.

If you store different roses, attach a sticker with the name of the variety to each seedling.

2. Storage of rose seedlings on the balcony in boxes

If there is not enough space in your refrigerator, roses can be "settled" on the glassed-in balcony until spring. To do this, take a cardboard box, pour a light substrate (for example, peat or sawdust) on the bottom, put seedlings on it, spray it with cool water from a spray bottle and sprinkle it with the same soil. In such conditions, the seedlings can safely withstand air temperature fluctuations from –5 to 5 ° С.

In early spring, when the sun begins to warm, boxes with roses are transported to their summer cottage and placed in a hole, which is dug out in the fall. The boxes are sprinkled with the same soil in which the seedlings are located. After the ground thaws, the roses are dug up and planted in a permanent place.

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3. Storage of rose seedlings in the basement or cellar

Roses are well stored for 2 months in a basement or cellar with an air temperature of 0 to 3 ° C. To do this, the seedlings are placed vertically in a bucket or any container and sprinkled with wet river sand, peat or sawdust so that the root collar is slightly deepened.

The disadvantage of this method of storing seedlings is that vegetables and seedlings of various plants are often kept in the basement, which can be a source of disease. Therefore, if possible, roses should be kept separately or as far away from other crops as possible.

4. Storing rose seedlings in the snow

If you do not have a glazed balcony or loggia, roses can be successfully preserved on the site in winter, under the snow. The seedlings are placed in a cardboard box and sprinkled with peat. Then they choose the most shaded corner, where the snow usually does not melt for a long time, but moisture does not stagnate in the spring. They put a box with seedlings there, cover it with non-woven material (spunbond, lutrasil, agrospan, etc.) and cover it with snow to make a large snowdrift.

To delay the melting of snow, spruce or pine branches are placed on top of the snowdrift. Under such a shelter, the box will maintain a temperature of about 0 ° C, even if severe frost hits. Roses are planted in the ground when this snowdrift has completely melted. If by that time it is still cool, the plantings must be covered with non-woven material.

5. Storing a blooming rose at home

If you bought not "sleeping" seedlings, but a blooming rose in a container, then such a plant can be safely kept at home as an indoor flower, but no more than 3 weeks... During this time, roses usually have time to bloom, partially using internal resources, and therefore acquire a mediocre appearance, but after planting in open ground they quickly recover and develop normally.

Planting dates for specific regions are set depending on climatic conditions. But in any case, this method of storing roses is only good when buying seedlings in the spring.

How to keep sprouted roses

The seedlings should be checked regularly. And if you suddenly notice awakened kidneys on them, then the following measures should be taken.

First of all, the seedlings are brought to an upright position. If they are stored lying down, then new shoots will rush up. And when you plant the plant in the ground, then they will be in a horizontal position. As a result, the shoots will be crooked.

If the kidneys are only slightly swollen, you can try to restrain their growth by lowering the temperature to 0 ° C, if the storage was warmer. If sprouts do appear, then it is better to plant the seedlings in deep pots or containers (at least 2 liters in volume) with holes for water drainage.The container is filled with moist fertile soil; when planting a seedling, the root collar is left at the soil level or slightly higher.

If the roots of a seedling with an open root system are noticeably dry, they need to be kept in water for 4-8 hours before planting.

Such roses will live at home until they are planted in the ground and will safely undergo a transplant in May - early June.

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The attributes of the coming spring are familiar to all summer residents. For some time now, one more has appeared among them - an increasing number of all kinds of fairs and sales of gardening tools, equipment, seedlings and seedlings every day.
I bought one of the first - I got what I dreamed of and of the best quality. At home, you rejoice, unfolding a whole heap of purchased wealth, among which there are several unique rose bushes. And suddenly you think: how to preserve roses before planting in spring, until the time when it will be possible to plant this beauty in the garden?

The problem of preserving planting material for roses

For many summer residents, a rose is one of the most beloved flowers. Already in the fall, a large army of their adherents began to study catalogs of various publications. The most persistent and purposeful fanatics find, order, write reminders with the names of varieties on smartphones and computers.

In central Europe, the planting season begins a month earlier than ours. The entire flower business is exactly in line with this deadline.
So, in our retail chains, supermarkets and centralized gardening stores, there are scatterings of colorful boxes with flower seedlings.
Everything would be fine if it were not for the frosts we have at this time - until spring another whole month. You need to buy now - the buds have already woken up, there is a choice, both in quality and in grade, but how to keep rose seedlings in the best and healthy condition before planting on the site?

The designated problem is complex in nature, since it functionally depends on a number of factors:

• on how the root of the plant is organized;
• from the state of his kidneys and sprouts;
• from the remaining time to stable landing temperatures;
• and the possibilities that the florist has to store his purchases.

Rose seedlings for planting come on sale with a closed or open root system. It is the latter that cause the greatest concern. Their exposed roots clearly require preservation prior to planting. The only question is a specific solution to the problem.

It is important to understand that a boxed rose seedling is not a closed-root seedling.

Roses in boxes also belong to the same category of planting material. The fact is that such seedlings are not planting material with a closed root system. It only seems that the rose has an earthen lump. In fact, the seedling did not grow in this land, its roots are often curled up and tightly covered with plastic wrap. At best, the buds are just beginning to grow, at worst, the shoots are very elongated. They look like light green brittle processes with pale leaves.
Of course, it is better not to buy such material. But if this happened, especially if the variety liked it, there are also options for a way out of the situation.

Trying to keep the rose seedlings at home

Sometimes the situation develops in such a way that it is simply impossible to get to the dacha or garden plot.There is only one way out - to agree on the family council on the possibility of storing the purchase at home. There are 3 options for preserving seedlings:

1. Overexposure in the refrigerator... This method is acceptable when the buds have not yet begun to grow. You need to put on kraft paper or a plastic bag with holes on the plant. Place it on the door or shelf of the refrigerator, setting the temperature to 1-3 degrees. It is necessary to water once every 5-7 days by spraying. Perhaps, if the temperature is higher than the recommended, slight regrowth of light shoots. This is normal - in the future, the shoots will turn green in the light. You can store the packaging in this form for up to 2 months.

   This method is possible if the kidneys have not started to grow.

2. On a glazed balcony... So you can save the planting material in the presence of already regrown shoots. The plant must be unpacked, the roots are examined to identify possible defects. The long upper shoots are removed, the middle ones are pinched, depending on the condition. After that, the roots of the seedling are carefully straightened and planted in a five-liter container, for example, a water bottle with a cut-off neck. Place the landing on the shaded part of the balcony. Strict control of night temperatures is imperative. With minus indicators, they are sheltered or transferred to the house. The rose starts to grow, but the low spring temperatures prevent it from growing too rapidly. After planting in the garden, such a seedling will require additional care in the form of shelters from the sun, wind and cold weather.
3. Option with transplanting into a large flower pot and keeping it warm on the windowsill is the worst. A plant with an undeveloped root system will eat itself with its sprouts. If by some miracle it is possible to preserve a plant with a small number of shoots, it will be more difficult for it to take root after transplanting it into the garden.

We store in the cold in the country

If there is an opportunity to get to the summer cottage, there are very good options for storing planting material:

1. Conservation under the snow in the garden... Practicing rose growers consider the option under consideration to be the best. In this way, you can cover both a planting product with dormant buds, and with processes. In this case, the long processes of the upper row must be broken off, and the middle one must be shortened. By the size of the seedlings, a hole is dug in the snow in the darkest corner of the garden. Its bottom is lined with container boards or spruce branches. The purchased bushes are laid on top and covered with a shallow fruit box. It is not bad to cover the entire structure with lutrasil, and then cover it with snow, making a snowdrift. Landing in the ground is performed after warming up the place designated for this purpose.

   It is imperative to put planks at the bottom of the pit so that the seedlings do not rot when the snow begins to melt

2. In the basement at the dacha... This possibility of overexposure resembles the option using a glazed balcony. In this case, a temperature controller is used in tandem with a programmable socket to turn on additional lighting. The temperature is set in the range of 1-30. Duration of additional lighting - up to 12 hours. When warm weather is established, the seedlings of roses are transferred to the glazed veranda, adjusting the lighting and temperature in the same way.

Practical tips

If you could not resist and bought rose seedlings, how to keep what you purchased before planting is no longer a secret for you. Here are some more general tips, it will not be superfluous to brush up on some little things:

• the purchase in a bright colored box must be expanded before planting, shaking off the roots;
• if there is a protective mesh, plant it directly in it, as the manufacturer advises. The mesh will dissolve over time;
• straighten the roots folded in half and carefully cut off the defective, blackened;
• to adapt roses to planting conditions, take them outside in a bucket of water in the evening and morning hours. After a while - for the whole daylight hours;
• Do not remove wax.It protects against burns and excessive evaporation. It is not a hindrance to the kidneys - in the future it will fall off by itself.

Once, having felt all the charm and charm of a rose, the unique combination of the beauty of its flowers and their aroma, you will never change your addiction to it. And no difficulties, and sometimes problems associated with its cultivation, will stop a real connoisseur of this miracle. This love is for life.

We save seedlings of roses purchased in spring before planting in open ground

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How often do we buy rose seedlings not when it is best to plant them on the site, but when they are sold at discount sales. And it happens that when we see the variety we like, we do not think at all about how to preserve the rose seedlings before planting. Even when prescribing sophisticated varieties via the Internet, we are unlikely to be able to guess exactly at the time of planting, so we create a problem for ourselves, which we then have to solve.

The problem of preserving planting material

The problem of preserving planting material arises not only when the purchase of seedlings is untimely, this happens when growing roses with cuttings, when you need to save cuttings with or without roots until spring. It happens that a summer resident wants to plant roses in the fall, but the weather fails, does not allow planting at the right time, and then it’s too late. In this case, the seedlings must also be stored until spring.

The solution to this problem depends on a number of reasons. Here the condition of the seedling matters, whether it has sprouts, what is the state of the buds, whether the root system is open or closed. The time that remains before planting is very important, it depends on it what conditions for storing the seedling need to be created.

If the summer resident got hold of seedlings with a closed root system, this means that the roots, along with the lump of earth in which they grew, are in a container. There is no problem here, you just need to leave them where the temperature does not exceed +3 degrees.

If you bought roses with open roots, you should urgently take action, they do not just need to be left in the air, even throughout the day. Saplings are often sold packed in beautiful boxes, there is even earth, but such packages have nothing to do with a closed root system.

The roots are often rolled up and tied tightly with polyethylene, this is not at all good for them. They may have long awakened buds, or even weak elongated shoots may grow - it is not known how much and how they were stored. So, if it was not possible to plant roses immediately, you need to navigate in time and create suitable conditions for them.

Video "Storing seedlings until spring"

From the video you will learn about storing rose seedlings.

Trying to keep the seedlings at home

Home conditions do not shine with a variety of options, but a refrigerator can help out, even if you have to store planting material for up to two months. This is very useful when the seedlings ordered from a nursery or an online store are delivered unexpectedly quickly. The revival of the flower market in Europe is happening too early for our standards, because they start planting a month earlier than ours. Here is a chain reaction activates even our fairs - it is better to buy imported varieties exactly when they are so massively offered. And the result is a wonderful planting material in the middle of winter. So what if it's April on the calendar, there is as much snow at the dacha as there were January days.

It doesn't matter if the seedlings are purchased in March or April. Expand them, remove the packaging, inspect, assess the condition of the roots and shoots. The roots need to be straightened if they were bent or rolled up, then carefully wrapped in polyethylene with holes for air circulation or craft paper. Shoots can remain outside such packaging. This package must be placed on the shelf of the refrigerator and kept at a temperature of +1 to +3 degrees. Every 5 - 6 days, using a spray bottle, it is advisable to moisten the seedlings.This is ideal for seedlings with dormant buds.

If it's not that the buds have woken up, but the shoots are already growing, then the plant needs to be given a vertical position, because new branches always grow upward, and if they grow at an angle of 90 degrees to the main shoots, then the bush will look, to put it mildly, unpresentable.

It is better to cut or pinch young shoots, they are still weak, and their growth only weakens the entire bush, because they feed on those nutrients that he managed to accumulate during his short life, and the root system does not work. To save him, you need to take any dish with a volume of at least five liters (a saucepan, a pot, a plastic bottle, a bucket), drill holes in its bottom, put pebbles (expanded clay or pebbles) on the bottom for drainage, fill the soil with peat and sand, or even one peat and plant a rose. You need to plant carefully, straightening all the roots. After that, the rose is watered and placed on a loggia or glazed balcony. You can put a bag on top of the shoots, but not create a greenhouse effect. Such conditions allow the seedling to grow, but very slowly - the cold inhibits the growth of shoots, and the root system is formed, additional roots grow. The main thing is not to allow subzero temperatures, if frosts intensify, then the rose can be transferred somewhere or simply wrapped up.

The seedling planted in a pot will then need to be gradually accustomed to fresh air and sunlight before planting on the street. This is done by carrying it out first in the morning for a short time, then in the mornings and evenings, gradually increasing the time of "walks". It is very important that the rose pot is kept at a temperature of about freezing, and then warmed up as the temperature rises outside. If you grow it for at least a month on a windowsill in the warmth of an apartment, then it will be a very vulnerable and painful plant.

We store in the cold in the country

In the country, as a rule, there is a basement, it is suitable for storing seedlings and cuttings. Roses are pruned in the fall, this time is used by many to harvest cuttings, and they are planted for rooting in the spring. Seedlings that could not be planted in the fall, cuttings cut for spring planting, can be dug into the ground and left to winter in a cool basement.

The air temperature should not fall below zero and rise above +3 degrees, the ground and shoots (aboveground part) should be periodically moistened.

With the beginning of spring, dishes with plants should be transferred to the veranda, the same conditions will be obtained as on the glazed balcony - they will begin to grow, but slowly enough to wait for a real planting on the site.

Unplanned seedlings and cuttings can overwinter even in the snow, like bears in a den. To do this (of course, in the presence of abundant snow, which will lie until spring), you need to dig a hole in the snow with the corresponding dimensions in some dark corner of the garden. Put boards or spruce branches on its bottom, on them - planting material, put a box on top or build a wire frame, cover it all with lutrasil and cover it with snow on top. Such a "house" is suitable for seedlings with dormant buds and for plants with sprouts, only the sprouts that are too large need to be cut off, and small ones should be slightly pinched.

Practical tips

Experienced flower growers advise not to buy a pig in a poke, the seedling must be considered from all sides. If you have already bought a beautiful package or received it by mail, you need to immediately unfold the plant and examine it. All damaged parts must be cut off, the cuts must be treated with wood ash. By the way, healthy roots on the cut should be light, they can be dipped not in ash, but in Kornevin or another means that stimulates root growth.

If there is a net on the seedling, it does not need to be removed, you can plant directly with it, it will soon rot. You do not need to rip off paraffin from the shoots either, it will not interfere with growth, it will soon fall off by itself. True, unscrupulous sellers can disguise stains on the trunks with them.If you find dark spots of unknown origin, gently wipe them with ordinary brilliant green. Before planting, seedlings should be treated with some kind of parasite remedy and closed with a bag for two hours. It happens that the planting material is infected with thrips or some other nasty thing that cannot be seen until they have multiplied.

If you are not going to plant the bush an hour after you brought it home, place it in a container of clean water at room temperature.

Video "Overexposure of seedlings until spring"

From the video you will learn how to overexpose seedlings in winter until spring.