How Do You Grow Roses From Cuttings?
You can start out with just a few rose bushes and end up with a whole rose garden. With a little help from nature and its magical process of propagation, you can multiply the number of roses in your garden by following these suggestions. Decide which roses you want to propagate. Propagating a rose is natural reproduction of parent stock, and involves taking a cutting–a length of stem–of a rose plant and growing it into another plant. Determine approximately how many cuttings you want to take. Look at the roses you anticipate taking cuttings from to see if you have stems available that are firm and green, about the diameter of a pencil and 6 to 8 inches long with growth buds on them. You can take cuttings any time of year, but generally the temperatures in the fall are the best. Night temperatures between 50 and 60 degrees F and daytime temperatures not over 90 degrees F will most likely yield the best results when propagating roses. Choose and prepare a location for the placement of
