Re: California trip/now rose cuttings

Just about any time, though the warmer climate may have helped that.  I'd say
in good growth.  He would root a stem that had had a bloom. 

In a message dated 05/04/2005 11:30:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
Sounds simple enough.  Cuttings at any time? or at a certains tage?

Kitty
neIN, Z5
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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

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