What are the advantages & disadvantages of “Budded” roses?
A. This type of propagation is easy, quick, cost-effective, and not that durable…… 1. The advantages of Budded roses are mainly for the nurseryman: It allows the production of very large, heavy caliper, uniform plants quickly, usually within a couple months. Very young Budded roses (regardless of the variety on top) have strong woody root systems and can be processed, bundled, and shipped with more ease and less worry about temperature and moisture conditions. Since the method requires only one ‘bud-eye” per rootstock, any available propagating material can be stretched to rapidly manufacture large quantities of a particular variety for market. 2. The customer/gardener will have a BIG plant instantly – size and quickness of effect in the landscape are huge selling points to the impatient. Young Budded roses allow a little more leeway for deficiencies of soil or skills, as well as for aberrations of weather at planting time and during the Budded rose’s first season. However, after t
