How Do I Grow Roses From Cuttings?
How do I grow roses from cuttings, is probably one of the most common questions that garden supply shops hear. It isn’t really difficult; it just seems to be one of those great mysteries that only professional gardeners know. Remember though, growing roses from cuttings is how many early pioneers from all walks of life carried bits of home with them as they moved to new lands. In fact, cutting is how roses reproduce. The first step is to take a cutting from a healthy, well established rose. If you take a cutting from a young or sickly rose you risk damaging the parent plant. You do this by cutting a stem of the rose plant with at least one bud on it just below the third knuckle of the stem. A knuckle can be identified by leaf growth or a knotted look to the stem. Make a diagonal cut at about a forty-five degree angle. You now have your first cutting in your efforts to determine the answer to, ‘how do I grow roses from cuttings’. The next thing you want to do is to put the cutting in a
