How to Propagate Roses 🌹

                   There are three easy methods to produce new generation from roses.

         • Grafting / budding. 

         • Layering 

         • Cuttings 

Let' s see one by one.

Grafting Or Budding 

Popular way for propagation of roses. 

               Grafting means connecting of a shoot ( several buds available ) with root stock. Naturally available vigorous wild varieties use as root stock while using improved hybrid varieties using as scion. 

                Most common method is inverted " T " method because of it prevent water stagnation which responsible for microbial infections.

 

Cuttings 

               This method suitable for propagate garden roses or for commercial cultivations. Cuttings obtain from a healthy  vigorous mother plant & lower end cut with fourty five digrees angle from just below a leaf node on stem that has finished blooming.

                 Selected cuttings shuld be 15 - 20 cm in length & semi hard wood in maturity. Just after seperate from mother plant should keep them dipped in water. Then remove all leaves leaving 2 - 3 on top. Lower end dip in a rooting hormone about 1 cm & gently tap for remove excess. 

                   Prepair a suitable media ( top soil : compost - 2 :1 ) & watering done before eshtablish in cuttings. When watering after establishment use a sprayer. Then prepare a single propagater or place cuttings in a large propagater for supply optimum RH & Temperature. It takes about 5 - 8 weeks for rooting.

 

Layering 

            There are two methods in practice as Air layering & Ground Layering.

                When practice air layering a healthy stem selected which already bloomed & has pencil thickness. Remove 4 - 5 leaflet & spikes. Bark of the stem removed as a ring just below a leaf node. That area dusted with a rooting hormone by finger or a brush. Then cover with moist coir dust & tied up with polethene from both ends. Stem will be rooted within 3 - 8 weeks due to the variety.

                 Semi mature stem which near ground level should select for ground layering. Stem bend with a weight or forked stick & make a cut & should cover with a suitable media.

Then supply water & allow for rooting. All the best for your garden.