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Re: Burying Grafts

** Reply to note from "rosenlund" <rosenlund@transport.com> Sat, 30 May 1998 08:48:25 -0700
>   
> I have been hearing resently that some feel they can make a "own-root"
> rose out of a  grafted rose just by burying the graft deep. I always
> understood that dirt on a graft would cause the root stock to grow on it's
> own. Years ago if you did this, you would have lots of Dr.Huey roses.  Is
> there a new root stock that will not "grow" ? Am I missing something ?
> Surely this can't be right..

Dr. Huey or any other rootstock with the possible exception of Multiiflora
will sucker if not completely de-eyed before being stuck as a cutting before
budding.  Dirt on the bud union won't affect the growth of the understock.

Remember, the bud union is the scion rose. Depending on the variety, it may
or may not cause the scion rose to set out its own roots.  This can be
desirable or undesirable depending on the USDA zone you live in (if the
rose is on its own roots and the top is frozen, new growth will come back
true), the sucker-proneness of the scion variety and whether the scion
rooting will produce a stronger or weaker rose than would result from
understock support.

                    Mel Hulse, Col. USAF (Ret'd)
                     Silicon Valley Rose Farmer
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