How to plant a rose from a bouquet?

Quite often, those who have their own garden plots, when receiving a bouquet of beautiful roses, ask themselves the question: "how to plant a rose from a bouquet?" This controversial question, which seems to have a simple answer - to cut the cuttings, entails certain actions, efforts and steps that in the end may not bring the desired result.

Content:

• How to plant a rose from a bouquet?
• Care of cuttings
• Wintering cuttings
• We grow roses in the apartment
• Are all bouquets suitable for cuttings?

How to plant a rose from a bouquet?

It is best to cut the bouquet immediately into cuttings. You can let it sit in a vase, but no longer than four days. When stored for a longer period, cuttings usually do not take root.

If you are sorry to throw away the buds, you can place them in a glass vase filled with water.

Preparing cuttings:

1. cut the stem of the rose into cuttings, about 12 cm long, which will have up to three buds, and the lower cut of the cut should be made 1 cm below the bud and at an angle of 45 degrees, and the upper should be straight;
2. all thorns on the cuttings must be trimmed, the lower sheets removed, and the upper ones shortened by a third;
3. it is advisable to burn the upper cut of the cuttings with brilliant green or potassium permanganate, and hold the cuttings themselves for a day in growth preparations or in aloe juice;
4. before planting in the prepared mixture, each lower cut of the cuttings must be dipped in a product that helps the formation of roots;
5. the cuttings should be planted to a depth of at least two centimeters, and the top layer in the pot should be sandy, then water well;
6. Cover each stalk with a plastic bottle and carry out subsequent watering through the neck of the bottle. If the stalk gives a bud, it should be removed;
7. after a month, the cuttings that have taken root can be gradually "accustomed" to the air and then planted in the allotted permanent place. To do this, unscrew the cap for a few minutes every day. The time is gradually increased.

You can plant cuttings not in bottles, but in greenhouses or in open soil. But in any case, the soil is required well fertilize humus.

If the roses are planted in a greenhouse, then it is advisable to paint the glass white or cover it with something. The bottles can be covered with a cloth.

Care of cuttings

In order for the cuttings planted in the apartment to take root better, they need additional light. For this, fluorescent lamps are used. It is desirable to maintain the temperature at + 23-25 ​​degrees. Avoid drafts. The plant may die from cold and draft.

Also, the roses in the room must be constantly sprayed. For half a month, spraying is carried out 5-7 times a day, and then 3 times.

Watering should be regular. Make sure that the soil does not dry out under any circumstances: it must be constantly moist. But at the same time, decay can begin from waterlogging in the cuttings.

Wintering cuttings

Planted for the winter cuttings sprinkle with earth and cover. A synthetic winterizer is perfect for this. Usually, roses tolerate winter well, and start growing in spring.

If the cuttings were planted very late, then it is better to transplant them into flower pots for the winter and put them in an apartment.

We grow roses in the apartment

Try to grow roses from a donated bouquet you can not only in the garden, in the country, but also on the windowsill in the apartment, all the actions are the same, you need to monitor the moisture of the earth and shade the plants in too bright light. In this case, the cuttings are planted in flowerpots.

It is only necessary to purchase soil for indoor plants. Pour drainage at the bottom of the flowerpot, best of all expanded clay. Then put the soil and put sand on top.

Instead of store soil, you can prepare the soil yourself. To do this, take sod land, leafy soil and sand in a ratio of 2: 1: 1.

After planting, the roses should be watered immediately. To do this, it is better to prepare a strong solution of potassium permanganate, but you can take ordinary water as well.

If you have a garden or personal plot, then you can plant rooted cuttings in greenhouses.

Cuttings can be kept in water, periodically changing it, until roots longer than three cm appear and then planted in the ground, but there is also no guarantee that the plant will take root and the roots will not rot.

Are all bouquets suitable for cuttings?

Many flower growers notice that it is extremely difficult to grow a new one from winter bouquets. bouquet of roses, where the bouquets, which are given in spring and summer, are much better suited. Cuttings cut from July bouquets take root especially well. In this case, the roses take root almost one hundred percent. In March, one bush is usually obtained from the whole bouquet. But winter bouquets give almost zero result.

Cuttings cut from roses that are grown in local nurseries are better amenable to rooting. Climbing, miniature, polyanthus, hybrid tea and floribunda roses take root especially well.

Cuttings should be soft, at the initial stage of lignification. From too young (flexible green) and from too old (beginning to lignify) stems, cuttings usually turn out to be unviable.

Dutch rose varieties do not lend themselves well to grafting due to the fact that they are treated with special compositions so that they are stored for a long time. They can release leaves and remain viable for a long time, but they will not take root. Domestic roses are rooted by 90%.