Comments on: A Rose Story Part 2: Propagating Old Roses

By: Jody

Jody — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 02:23:26 +0000

After reading the interview with Anne I’m inspired to try to propagate some of my own. I have a BEAUTIFUL old rose that was on my property when I purchased the house. The landscape person said they had tried to identity the rose without success. I also was given a darling rose, I think it might be some wild coastal variety ( I live on the Oregon coast ), that I would love to propagate for a garden area that I have planned. It’s kind of funny, but at an old house of mine I used to shove rose cuttings in holes that rats made in the garden with the idea that it would make for some discomfort, and just maybe discourage them so that they would leave, which of course did not work, but some of these cuttings rooted with no work at all!

By: Darci Spiker

Darci Spiker — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:55:37 +0000

Question on light requirements after the cuttings are dipped and secured in their little trays. We don’t have a greenhouse, so would grow lights be better, or no? If yes…how close to the plant and hours per day. I’m thinking maybe no bc roots don’t need light anyway, but you mentioned trying to keep some leaves at the top which implies you’re expecting some photosynthesis, which needs light.
Thanks so much for your sharing of your work and process. Ive got an amazing sweet pea crop every year thanks to your “how to grow sweet peas”. It’s so fun to learn these projects and keep them going!

By: Carina

Carina — Mon, 29 May 2023 20:11:36 +0000

I’m so inspired now to make friends with neighbors and ask if I can take cuttings off their old roses to propagate. In the historic area of my town, there are lots of old homes with roses that I imagine are many decades old. I bet there are some treasures to be found! Thanks for doing this work and sharing your process with the rest of us.

By: Cynthia Konicke

Cynthia Konicke — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:55:26 +0000

Amanda Stark of Stark Farms propagates Roses in a counter top Aerogarden . I had great success copying her method. She suggests cutting a 6 -8 “ stem that has flowered, dipping the base in rooting hormone and then placing in the coco coir pod. It worked really well and very simple for the hobby gardener.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:32:21 +0000

I love this series . Thankyou so much ! It is admirable that you are saving this dear lady’s lifelong work

By: Jennifer Kustwin

Jennifer Kustwin — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:15:10 +0000

My neighbor has an old (40 plus years ) possibly rambling rose bush /shrub -perhaps Rosa Harison’s yellow . How is the best way to determine the variety ? Google lens showed me a couple different varieties. We want to transplant some after watching the rose episode, I can’t do it in trays so can it be direct to ground ?

By: Kathy DeForest

Kathy DeForest — Wed, 24 May 2023 13:36:14 +0000

My husband and I are buying a property where the old dilapidated house (original 1920) needs to be demolished. Against one wall are old, overgrown rose bushes that will have to come out. Can they be transplanted?

In the mean time, I so much enjoy learning everything I can. Thank you Floret Flowers.

By: Marcia

Marcia — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:41:50 +0000

I’m going to have to try this. Years ago, about 1978, when I was preparing to get married, we visited the lady who would make our wedding cake. She lived out in the country. She had several beautiful rose bushes & I asked her about them. She said every time someone gave her roses, she would cut the bloom off of one, stick it in the ground and cover it with a glass canning jar. It seemed to work very well for her. I have a green thumb, having grown up on my grandparents tree nursery but not so with roses. :-)

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:05:48 +0000

Wow! Reading through all these notes from last year was so helpful to read as folks describe their process of where to cut and what time of year, whether it should be outside or inside in a baggie depending on where you live. Enjoyed reading your notes Erin and coupling that with those above. Have a rose nearby that I admire every time I run past it and the fragrance is decadent. Hoping to see if I can successfully grow a cutting. You hooked me on David Austen years ago and my blooms are just finally beginning after I got a bush last year. Excited! Thanks!

By: Norleen Cross

Norleen Cross — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:49:26 +0000

About 35 years ago, I moved to Northern California, and I found an old heirloom rose climbing American beauty that was like the one on my great grandparents farm in Utah. It did so well and had this beautiful scent that reminded me of him of the farm and a couple of years ago it got witches’-broom, and died, but I had taken a cutting from it and had placed it in another part of the yard where it didn’t do as well because it was shady so I moved it to the place for the original one was but when it started to bloom this spring the rose doesn’t have the scent that it did before. Is there a reason that taking a cutting or moving this rose would cause it to lose it sent ?