Re: California trip/now rose cuttings

Thanks, Auralie, I'll save that info.  If I ever get caught up around here I
want to do more propagation.
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:44 PM
> 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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