Re: Re: Propagating (Hardwood)

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

Wow,
what are you going to do with all those roses when they grow??
Hazel

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> From: Rosenlund <rosenlund@transport.com>
> To: Rose-List <rose-list@mallorn.com>
> Subject: [Rose-list] Re: Propagating (Hardwood)
> Date: Friday, 15 September 2000 2:26
> 
> Is it Phillip? I think I recall your name was Phillip... Hi,
> 
> I'm NO expert on taking cuttings.....(yet!)... I have some 700 in my
> greenhouse this year, and hope to "stuck" another 1,000 or so yet this
> year... quite the experiment as I've already lost some from too much sun
> before getting the shade cloth up...  :-P   I'm still taking softwood
> cuttings now (perhaps that is part of the problem) but some varieties are
> looking VERY well.  Pencil size IS working the best.
> 
> The only experience I've had with Hardwood cuttings is by the instruction
of
> my green thumb Mother.  She brought me a cutting in the month of early
Nov.
> and told me to bury it (like a seed)... this was an old growth branch of
> about a foot long (thinner then a pencil) with 4-5 short branches of
> hardened off new grown of about 4 inches long each, NO leaves.
> 
> I set it (no treatment of any kind, thought I recall leaving an inch of
the
> new growth out to "breath") in a shaded, damp, protected corner of my
> concrete steps.  Spring it was shooting up canes and several years
> later (moved it to Mom's place) it bloomed fine.  It was the species
rose,
> 'rosa cymosa'.
> 
> 
>                 ~Carleen~
> Keeper of Sheep and Old Roses
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: prgramly@intrepid.cdg-hargray.com
> >on the topic of propogation - has anyone had success rooting
> >hardwood cuttings.
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