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29-05-2003, 08:44 AM
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mason jar method?
can i slash tender new green stems off my favorite bushes and plunk
them in good soil and expect them to live? if i throw the bottle over the plantings and love them and stuff? i envision a row of glinting and humid glittering hemispheres of 2l bottles nurturing my rude cuttings jammed into a nice little garden bed... i could sing.... no i couldn't  Carl |
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29-05-2003, 01:56 PM
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29-05-2003, 03:44 PM
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mason jar method?
In article , caterbro
wrote: can i slash tender new green stems off my favorite bushes and plunk them in good soil and expect them to live? No You need stems that have flowered if i throw the bottle over the plantings and love them and stuff? No You'll probably cook them. Try using open-topped gallon-sized plastic milk jugs. i envision a row of glinting and humid glittering hemispheres of 2l bottles nurturing my rude cuttings jammed into a nice little garden bed... Why not just put the bottles out, if you'd like. Read about propagation at the American Rose Society website: http://www.ars.org/explore.cfm/articles/ |
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03-06-2003, 05:20 AM
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mason jar method?
Oh dear, I just started some cuttings from new growth. Should I discard
them and start over or is there a chance they will root anyway? Cass wrote: In article , caterbro wrote: can i slash tender new green stems off my favorite bushes and plunk them in good soil and expect them to live? No You need stems that have flowered if i throw the bottle over the plantings and love them and stuff? No You'll probably cook them. Try using open-topped gallon-sized plastic milk jugs. i envision a row of glinting and humid glittering hemispheres of 2l bottles nurturing my rude cuttings jammed into a nice little garden bed... Why not just put the bottles out, if you'd like. Read about propagation at the American Rose Society website: http://www.ars.org/explore.cfm/articles/ |
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03-06-2003, 06:44 AM
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mason jar method?
Give it a try. You don't have anything to lose. But do some reading on the American Rose Society website so you don't get discouraged. It isn't all that hard to root roses from cuttings, but you need to know what works to improve your odds. Rooting hormone, selecting the right kind of stems, doing it at the right time of year, trying different techniques with hard-to-root roses, all of those factors can make the difference. Some roses won't root one way and with root another. In article , Alice Gless wrote: Oh dear, I just started some cuttings from new growth. Should I discard them and start over or is there a chance they will root anyway? Cass wrote: In article , caterbro wrote: can i slash tender new green stems off my favorite bushes and plunk them in good soil and expect them to live? No You need stems that have flowered if i throw the bottle over the plantings and love them and stuff? No You'll probably cook them. Try using open-topped gallon-sized plastic milk jugs. i envision a row of glinting and humid glittering hemispheres of 2l bottles nurturing my rude cuttings jammed into a nice little garden bed... Why not just put the bottles out, if you'd like. Read about propagation at the American Rose Society website: http://www.ars.org/explore.cfm/articles/ |
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03-06-2003, 04:56 PM
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mason jar method?
I've got that link bookmarked. Thanks to the poster who provided it.
My old aunt told me about the mason jar method using a ball of clay but I see there are better things now. She didn't say how reliable it was nor did she explain just how to make the cutting, but evidently it was used in the olden days. You just put it in the ground that way where you want it to grow. Roses grow on the east side of my house (only have one rootstock one left and one Betty Prior) so it probably wouldn't cook there like it would in the full sun if I used the jar method. But plastic sounds a little cooler. Cass wrote: Give it a try. You don't have anything to lose. But do some reading on the American Rose Society website so you don't get discouraged. It isn't all that hard to root roses from cuttings, but you need to know what works to improve your odds. Rooting hormone, selecting the right kind of stems, doing it at the right time of year, trying different techniques with hard-to-root roses, all of those factors can make the difference. Some roses won't root one way and with root another. In article , Alice Gless wrote: Oh dear, I just started some cuttings from new growth. Should I discard them and start over or is there a chance they will root anyway? Cass wrote: In article , caterbro wrote: can i slash tender new green stems off my favorite bushes and plunk them in good soil and expect them to live? No You need stems that have flowered if i throw the bottle over the plantings and love them and stuff? No You'll probably cook them. Try using open-topped gallon-sized plastic milk jugs. i envision a row of glinting and humid glittering hemispheres of 2l bottles nurturing my rude cuttings jammed into a nice little garden bed... Why not just put the bottles out, if you'd like. Read about propagation at the American Rose Society website: http://www.ars.org/explore.cfm/articles/ |
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