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Taking cuttings of antique roses
I have searched through several search engines, and each site seems to have
a different idea. Does anyone have personal experience? My neighbor is 92, and is encouraging me to take cuttings of her beautiful antique white rose. I would love to have some as it blooms off and on year round, as long as the temperatures don't stay below 20 degrees for more than a couple of days at a time. |
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Taking cuttings of antique roses
In article , Harriet Nation
wrote: I have searched through several search engines, and each site seems to have a different idea. Does anyone have personal experience? Yes. The reason for different ideas is that a number of different methods work. If you really want the rose, then take a good number of cuttings and try several methods at once. Where are you located? I'm particularly enamored of the soda pop bottle method, where you put the cutting in good garden soil and cover with a clear, not green, soda bottle with the top off. You must water daily and spritz off the cutting. My neighbor is 92, and is encouraging me to take cuttings of her beautiful antique white rose. I would love to have some as it blooms off and on year round, as long as the temperatures don't stay below 20 degrees for more than a couple of days at a time. Do it. July is the perfect month to start. -- -=- Cass USDA Zone 9 Left Coast www.rosefog.us |
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Taking cuttings of antique roses
Harriet,
I'm just passing along along a link that Cass posted earlier to the newsgroup about rooting cuttings: http://www.ars.org/explore.cfm/propagation/ On the off chance that it might save someone from spam, I didn't copy quite all the info (but I *thought* that I saw a very clever spam-proofing address for Cass' earlier post). Speaking of spam -- does anyone else share the notion that we recipients are like "Lady Justice with the scales"? i.e., we're supposed to balance what goes up (Viagra ad) vs. what goes down (mortgage rate)? Bah dum bum Sorry, sorry, it sounded much funnier when I read it out loud before I posted! Anne Lurie Raleigh, NC "Harriet Nation" wrote in message ... I have searched through several search engines, and each site seems to have a different idea. Does anyone have personal experience? My neighbor is 92, and is encouraging me to take cuttings of her beautiful antique white rose. I would love to have some as it blooms off and on year round, as long as the temperatures don't stay below 20 degrees for more than a couple of days at a time. |
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Taking cuttings of antique roses
Harriet,
I'm just passing along along a link that Cass posted earlier to the newsgroup about rooting cuttings: http://www.ars.org/explore.cfm/propagation/ On the off chance that it might save someone from spam, I didn't copy quite all the info (but I *thought* that I saw a very clever spam-proofing address for Cass' earlier post). Speaking of spam -- does anyone else share the notion that we recipients are like "Lady Justice with the scales"? i.e., we're supposed to balance what goes up (Viagra ad) vs. what goes down (mortgage rate)? Bah dum bum Sorry, sorry, it sounded much funnier when I read it out loud before I posted! Anne Lurie Raleigh, NC "Harriet Nation" wrote in message ... I have searched through several search engines, and each site seems to have a different idea. Does anyone have personal experience? My neighbor is 92, and is encouraging me to take cuttings of her beautiful antique white rose. I would love to have some as it blooms off and on year round, as long as the temperatures don't stay below 20 degrees for more than a couple of days at a time. |
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