How to propagate rose branches
This article brings you the small experience of green plant maintenance on how to propagate rose branches and describe the cutting method of rose cuttings, with the following specific content:
Friends who have been gardening for a long time often try to propagate flowers by themselves, but not all cuttings will succeed. Therefore, cutting still requires a lot of skill, but many friends don't know these skills, so they often fail. Today, Flower will teach you how to propagate roses to increase the survival rate of your roses!
You can propagate roses throughout the year, but it's best to do it in spring and avoid doing it in summer. The survival rate is highest in spring, and it will be lower in summer. Many friends find that their cut rose branches have already sprouted new buds but die a few days later. What's going on?
1. Choose strong branches
Many friends choose branches that have been pruned to maintain the beauty of the original potted plant when propagating roses, and then they propagate directly without selection. Most of the branches pruned are tender or dried branches, so the survival rate in the later stage will be relatively low. Choosing the cutting branches is especially important, and we must choose strong branches for propagation to ensure the survival rate of the cutting branches!
2. Soak the branches
You can buy root powder online, dilute it with water, and soak the branches for two hours. But it's also possible without root powder. At home, you can use vinegar and water in a 1:100 ratio to dilute and soak the branches. However, soaking the branches is a necessary step in the propagation process!
How to propagate rose branches
3. Choose soil
When choosing soil, we should choose loose and nutritious soil, and simple structured nutritious soil is not suitable for propagating roses. To prevent the soil from hardening, we should add some decomposed leaf soil and river sand to the soil, and mix it with a small amount of perlite. This is mainly to increase the permeability of the soil and keep the plant well-ventilated!
4. Planting
First, we need to put the selected soil in the pot, then insert the branches we have chosen earlier, and we can add a layer of perlite about 1 cm thick on the surface of the soil. Then we start watering, and the key point is that the first watering must thoroughly wet the soil. After that, we move the potted plant to a place with diffused light and let it sit for 5 days. After five days, we will see new buds on the cut branches.
5. Post-propagation care
Our branches sprouting new buds do not mean that our propagation is over; we still need to care for them carefully in the later stage. We must be careful not to expose the cut branches to direct sunlight, as direct sunlight is very harmful to roses, and do not move the potted plant randomly.