How Do I Root a Tea Rose?
The tea rose, or R. odorate, is an Asiatic rose that made its way to Europe around the 1700s. Overtime, rose enthusiasts, attempting to utilize the best features of the tea rose while improving its shortcomings, developed the hybrid tea rose through crossbreeding. As with other rose plants, you can take a cutting from an existing tea rose plant and use it to grow a new rose bush. Before a cutting can be planted and grow into a hearty new rose bush, it must develop roots. Sanitize the gardening shear blades with rubbing alcohol before taking a cutting. Look for a stem with a rose on its tip in the advance stages of a wilt. Cut the wilted rose from the stem tip early in the morning. Make the cut just above the first healthy set of five-leaf-leaflets, cutting at a 45-degree angle. Cut the stem from the bush, taking a 6-inch piece, cutting at a 45-degree angle. Remove all the leaves from the stem except for two sets of five-leaf-leaflets, located at the top of the stem. Dip the bottom cut
