Re: California trip/now rose cuttings

This may not really be relevant, but for what it's worth...
My father had a large rose garden mostly grown from
cuttings.  If he saw a beautiful rose in someone's garden
he would knock on the door and ask for a cutting.  This was
in southern Alabama in the 1950s.  The method he used 
with great success was this - long before the day of 
rooting hormones.
He would allow the cutting to callous for a few hours.  Then
he would insert it into the sandy earth next to the north side
of the house in the area under the eaves.  He would turn a 
quart-size mason jar over it, making its own little greenhouse.
In a matter of six weeks or so he would have a rooted 
cutting.  He always wanted to have a rose nursery to grow
flowers for the florist trade, but never achieved that ambition.
Auralie


In a message dated 05/04/2005 8:06:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hodgesaa@earthlink.net writes:
Keep trying. When I do them I usually have maybe one or two out of 10 or 15
make it. I always make my cuttings about 6-8 inches long and start mine in
potting soil (maybe I should use sand or perlite) I've got two Rosa
mutablis in my yard that I propagate from a huge old specimen downtown.
They are now both about 6 feet tall. They were my first success about 6
years ago, very sentimental about them. 

I also do not cover mine, just keep them in shade and moist. It is SO humid
here I think bagging them would cause the to fall over from fungi almost
immeduately. Again, maybe perlite would help

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