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| If you're local to Pasadena, CA, March 6, I will be demonstrating the Burrito Method to the Pacific Rose Society. The location is the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Information is available at the website below. Should you wish to attend and participate, please bring - either newspaper or durable paper towels which don't shred when wet. - plastic bags without holes; either large ziploc types or grocery store produce bags. - rooting hormone of your choice, though I find the liquid types generally work better with this method. - labels to tag your wraps; plastic types are best, marked with #2 pencil. Ink deteriorates too quickly. - DORMANT cuttings. Those which flowered LAST year, or the wood beneath those which have more recently flowered. Make sure they are not pushing new growth/foliage/flowers as those are now probably too actively growing and are probably better used for more soft wood type methods. I hope to see you there! Kim |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pacific Rose Society
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Tue, Mar 4, 14 at 14:03
| Kim - it is so nice of you to do this! I would love to come, but Pasadena is 400 miles away, so not making it. I did try this method 3 times, with 100% failure each time, so I have given up. However, I have discovered that if I put a cutting in a small pot, and put a plastic dome on the pot (I cut up old Coke, etc bottles), and put the pot and its dome under a small upside down fish tank on a table in our very light filled glassed in back porch, I am getting over 90% success (I think it might have to do with my cats sleeping or watching birds sitting on the top of the upside down fish tank), so I will keep doing that. Jackie |
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| Hi Jackie, you'll be missed! As I state each time I demo the method, if you already have a method (or methods) which work, God bless you! Don't fix it, as it ain't broke! This is never meant to replace a successful method. It's simply to allow you another tool in your chest to increase potential successes at other times of the year or possibly with other types which refuse your other "advances". I'm glad you've discovered an easy method for you in your conditions. Not every method works precisely the same in every location, climate nor with every rose. Most can be fine tuned with enough experimentation. What you're doing is pretty much what I did (sans cats) in the Santa Clarita Valley with about the same success rate. In Encino, nope. 100% black/gray fuzzy goop, no matter what I did to reduce the moisture. Fortunately, this is working nearly perfectly again this year. Out of 320+ cuttings, I've lost fewer than 20, almost all of which came from other climates and appeared to succumb to canker. Those from mine, and other local gardens are pushing right along. Thanks. Kim |
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| I am going to try to be there. |
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| Great! It will be a pleasure to meet you, Henry! Kim |
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