Secrets of experienced gardeners: how to propagate a room rose?

Indoor roses are ideal flowers for breeding at home. First of all, they differ in miniature size, and caring for them does not imply much difficulty.

In this case, it is better to choose compact varieties of roses that do not require a large amount of soil, and, accordingly, a large pot. It should also be noted that some types of indoor roses are not amenable to cuttings and propagation at home. How is it better to propagate the flower and how to do it right - we will tell in the future.

At what time of the year is it better to plant a plant and is it possible to do this in winter?

Mostly, such roses are propagated using cuttings that are obtained after pruning. This method is suitable for the period of late summer - early autumn. This time is considered the period of preparation for rest, which is expected in the cold. In this case, it is better to use freshly cut branches or annual shoots.

In autumn, planting is done not in open ground, but in pots. For planting cuttings in spring, it is necessary to observe the rules for the storage of cuttings cut in autumn. When planting at this time of the year, it is advisable to use already lignified cuttings.

Proper preparation of seedlings

Propagation of indoor flowers requires compliance with all the rules in the preparation of cuttings and careful care of the sprouts.

If you want to propagate a rose already growing at home, then you should make it the correct pruning.

There are several rules that should be observed when preparing seedlings:

1. It is necessary to wait for the appearance of buds on the mother plant and only then cut the branch.
2. The processes need to be cut at an oblique angle, while not only the lower, but also the upper end of the handle.
3. When buying seedlings, you should pay attention to what grade they were obtained from. In this case, the seedlings can be grafted or obtained by cuttings.
4. Some varieties are best purchased in the fall, and others in the spring.
5. Sometimes it’s better to buy a finished flower and propagate it yourself.

Step-by-step instructions for propagating a flower in a room

Indoor roses can be propagated in several ways.

Cuttings

Cuttings are the most common method of propagating roses. Material for this type of propagation is obtained by pruning roses in late summer or early fall, as mentioned above.

You can also take trimmings of flowers growing in the garden, but we must remember that not every type of garden rose is suitable for cuttings and further rooting. For example, a tea rose does not produce results such as a climbing rose. Most suitable for rooting are blooming roses or shoots with buds, the cuttings of which were obtained in the spring.

The general rule for cuttings is the presence of kidneys, since it is the buds that will nourish the plant before planting and help the roots grow faster.

You can root the cuttings in jars of water, in the ground or even in potato tubers (how to root the cuttings in potatoes, read here). If you are going to root roses in water, you must:

1. Cut branches from the mother flower up to 12 cm long at an oblique angle.
2. Peel them from the leaves.
3. Put in a container of water.

The tool with which the stems are cut should be treated with alcohol or potassium permanganate. Water needs to be changed every day and make sure that mold does not appear on the cuttings. The appearance of a white "cloud" on the lower part of the handle is a signal of the imminent appearance of roots.

Important! It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that the cuttings are half lignified before rooting, since it is in this state that they root most quickly. The maturity of the stem can be determined by the spikes, which should easily break off.

You can also plant cuttings in the ground immediately after trimming. To do this, it is better to use auxiliary agents that contribute to the rooting of sprouts. Such drugs can be purchased in specialized stores. A solution is prepared from them, in which the cut stems are kept for several hours, and then planted in the ground.

Each stalk is covered with a jar or film with a general planting. Further, they need favorable lighting and normal temperature. The term of rooting in the soil reaches 5 weeks. An indicator of successful rooting will be the leaflets that appear.

You can learn more about grafting roses in the fall from this article, but here you will find step-by-step instructions for this process.

From the video you will learn how to cut and propagate a home rose by cuttings:

Bush division

This is one of the most famous and affordable ways to breed them. For this method of propagation, bush roses are suitable, rather than weaving or highly branched.

Propagation Tips:

1. Before dividing the bush, prune its branches as short as possible, otherwise they will pick up all the moisture and nutrients.
2. It is better to divide not a grafted rose bush, but one that was originally rooted in the ground. It happens that the roots of such a bush grow to the sides, and then it is enough to dig out a certain part of the root and cut it off with secateurs.
3. Propagation of roses by dividing the bush is made in autumn or early spring. The main thing is that the rose does not have time to empty the buds.
4. Digging and cutting branches is best done in the evening.
5. Cutting off the roots and parts of the bush should be performed with a sharp and alcohol-treated tool. After this, finished plots are planted so that the entire root is underground.
6. The landing site is generously watered and covered with soil.

Layering

Such propagation is best done in those roses whose cuttings do not root or are rooted poorly. One of the disadvantages of this method is the average result, i.e. not all roses divorced in this way reach a flowering period. This method of breeding indoor roses is also best done in early spring.

The most suitable varieties for this are climbing and ground roses. For this method, you should:

1. Select strong annual shoots, or, as they are also called, whips.
2. They are laid out in pre-prepared grooves with fertilizers next to the mother bush, but before that, cuts in the area of ​​the eyes should be made along the length of the shoot. They are made for intensive plant nutrition with nutrients and accelerated root formation. In this case, one of the layers must be pinned to the soil, and the others must be left on the surface.
3. The layer should be covered with soil, then water it abundantly and make sure that the earth in this place does not dry out.
4. Already by autumn, allotted roots can be unearthed, neatly separated from the mother bush and transplanted.
5. For the winter they should be covered for further strengthening and development. In particularly cold regions, such layering is even bent to the ground and sprinkled with soil or compost.

Seeds

A room rose can also be propagated using seeds. Roses from unripe seeds give the highest seedlings, so it is better to collect them at the end of summer, until the flowers fully ripen.

1. Having cut the box in half, you need to get seeds out of it and rinse them in a sieve with hydrogen peroxide. This prevents mold from forming on them.
2. After this, a substrate is prepared from a fabric, cotton pad or other material that is capable of retaining moisture.
3. Then the seeds are laid out and covered with a second substrate.
4. After that, the seeds are placed in a bag with a tight clasp and put in the refrigerator. Periodically check and ventilate the seeds.
5. After a while, the seeds will begin to germinate. Then they must be sown in pots and kept at room temperature and in good light.
6. Water them with extreme caution.

The process of growing seed sprouts can last until spring. Then they can already be transplanted into large containers or even into open soil.

Note. Harvest from roses grown from seeds may not be as plentiful in the first year as expected. You should wait at least the second flowering.

You can learn more about the propagation of roses by seeds here, and here we talked about growing roses from seeds from China.

Follow-up care

• A feature of a room rose is its photophilousness, but you should not expose it to sunlight in the summer.
• In winter, these flowers should be placed away from heating appliances, and it is better to provide them with a cooler place.
• In addition, the plant loves spraying, but this should not be done during flowering or in the open sun, as drops of water can work like lenses and burn leaves.
• Roses also love abundant hydration. They should be watered abundantly in the summer and with caution in the winter. At any time, they must be watered with well-settled water.
• It is important to consider that the rose needs a fairly spacious pot, as the plant has a well-developed root system.
• For more active flowering, roses should be regularly fed with mineral fertilizers every 2 weeks from the beginning of growth.

Possible difficulties

The most common problem for roses is the spider mite. It is almost impossible to prevent its occurrence, therefore, preventive work should be carried out once every six months to treat the rooms in which room roses grow. You should not keep other types of plants in the same room with roses, otherwise a spider mite can spread to them.

If it was noticed that the leaves of the rose began to curl, then this is the first signal of damage to the plant with a spider mite. For treatment, the rose should be taken out into the open air and the leaves should be treated with a special solution on both sides.

When treating infected plants, special protective equipment should be used. and perform the procedure not in windy weather.

Also, room roses can develop diseases due to the wrong watering regime: powdery mildew, rust, black spotting. Their treatment consists in processing the bushes with effective mixtures and pruning the affected branches.

Watch the video: Easy way to grow rose from cutting, How to grow rose plant from cutting with English subtitles (May 2024).