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Re: Pruning- Ancestor roses

rosenlund wrote:
> 
> Welcome Trevor,
> 
> Can't raise any roses ? Bummer... How sweet to have a rose for Ray.
> Very touching.
> 
> I'm a believer in own-root roses. I've just started playing with
> propagating. Did you use root-hormone ?  Did you set them in a shady
> place ? Any tips ? I started over 100 cuttings this spring, about 25
> were looking great. So I moved them to the garden (from the north
> side of the house to the south side) in shady areas, under plastic
> pop tops. They all died. I now have about 50 cutting back under
> plastic on the north side. If I remember to water they might make it.
> Plan to put up a garden shed, just beyond the south rose garden and a
> propagation bed on the back, north side of that.
> 
> Do most rose suppliers in NZ also sell own-root roses ?
> 
> I don't know what a J bug is, but I do have aphids and sometimes
> thrip.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Carleen Rosenlund of Rainier, Oregon -USDA-8
> Sweetbriar - Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
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> .Before moving to the coast in Otaki (NZ) I had about 65 roses,I also had a shadehouse with about 200 Orchids, so when I wanted to propogate rose cuttings I took the cuttings about one month before normal pruning time and set them in a mixture of medium sand and pine bark 50/50 the same mixture I used for my Pleone orchids,they were set at about 45 degrees with about 1 1/2 inches out of the mixture. I have never used hormones to get them going .The shadehouse was covered with 33% shade cloth so didnt drop below 5degrees celsius even in a frost.
I think all comercial growers in NZ graft their cuttings onto
rootstockas they have a better success rate also Ibelieve they are more
disease resistant.
           Trevor.
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