Re: Starting cuttings (successfully ;} )

**"Hazel Bartlett-Griffiths" weejock@mcmedia.com.au>**

Hi Jim
dont worry this is as easy as pie
In your autumn/fall - can you wait that long???  or is that now?
take cuttings the thickness of a pencil or slightly larger and about 1foot
long.  with a few leaves on.
in a largeish pot place good quality potting mix and wet it till water runs
out the bottom.
just before putting the cuttings into the potting mix cut the ends dip them
in water and then in hormone mixture or honey and place them in the pot
about about 1/3rd in - 4 inches in.
leave the pot outside in a cool not full sun not frosty position and make
sure that it never dries out.  by spring you will have nearly all the
cuttings with little leaves on and then you can gently take them apart and
pot them up.
hope this helps
Hazel

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> From: Jim Curts <jcurts@yahoo.com>
> To: rose-list@mallorn.com
> Subject: [Rose-list] Starting cuttings (successfully ;} )
> Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2000 12:33
> 
> Hello All, I am new to your list and haven't had a
> chance to look around yet. So my question may be a bit
> redundant and if so I applologize now.
> 
> We have an old rose that my Dad and his family have
> passd on somehow for quite some time. The plant is
> quite large and we would like to take a dozen or so
> cuttings with us as we are moving. 
> 
> Would someone enlighten me on a source of (or short
> course on) doing this with some hope of ending up with
> at least 50% success? We are in the Portland Oregon
> area and the plant is still in bloom but not putting
> on more flowers at this time. This is a thorny critter
> but the huge flowers are very nice indeed.
> 
> Thank you 
> 
> Jim Curts    NW Oregon
> 
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