Propagating Roses from a Cut Bunch...?

[Shortie]

Hi everyone!

I was pulling the dying stems out of a vase of flowers yesterday when I noticed the 'past it' roses had healthy shoots off their stems.

Can I propagate these or it really unlikely they'll take?

Has anyone ever had luck propagating roses and how did you do it, bearing in mind I already have the stems cut

Cheers!!
Shortie

[PAULW]

SHORTIE
Roses like apples are mainly cuttings grafted onto a differant rootstock, so the cutting you are trying to grow on might not have the vigour as a plant to grow the flowers it has on it now, but there again give it a go what have you got to lose.

[nick the grief]

Yes you can shortie - they are usually done as hardwood cuttings though.

Paul is right that they are normally grafted but theats more from a commercial point of view you can get lots in a short ( er .... sorry) no time at all with the minimum effort.

[Two_Sheds]

I cut stems off my roses and just stick them in the ground and forget them, I've managed to double my stock this way. Just like blackcurrant cuttings.

[Shortie]

Hmm.... as you say, nothing to lose... so I just stuff them in the ground then...? I thought they'd take more work than that, lol!

[terrier]

I was always told to take a length of stem, green at the top, brown at the bottom about 8" long and plunge it into sand in a V shaped spade depth trench. Healthy stem cuttings really do root very quickly, but the resulting plants I've been disappointed with, not nearly as good as the original plants.

[pigletwillie]

I do likewise but in a big pot of 50-50 john innes and sand. Most make it.

[shirlthegirl43]

When I bought a rose earlier this year, a bit broke off it and I asked a similar question on here. In the end, I left it in a glass of water on the kitchen windowsill. It now (finally) has roots and shoots so I will be adding some compost to it as soon as I remember.

[bramble]

The rose i put in for the competition was a cutting from the parent bush and has done just aas the original.