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| I was happily messing about in my garden when I discovered a healthy baby, 6" rose cane. It was sticking out of a small pile of decompsing leaves I'd tossed at the back of a flowerbed. As i gently unearthed (unleafed?) the wee cane I discovered it is a lateral cane growing from a discarded 2ft Double Delight (?) cane. I tend to toss my prunings into the compost heap. Somehow I missed this one and it found its way to the back of the bed. Now I've tried my hand at rooting cuttings with little sucess. It Just goes to show that I was simply trying too hard. I 'm delighted to find my new wee rose bush M Ps It's been raining. I'll show a better pic when the sun comes out. |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Sun, May 26, 13 at 15:29
| How cool! Probably the decomposing leaves provided the perfect rooting medium, and it got some moisture, and some light. If you tried this on purpose it would probably not work! Some people are able to just stick cuttings into the soil and the root - not me. The only time that worked for me was on Grandmother's Hat - I had been told it would, and stuck in 3 cuttings, which I did cover with plastic bottle covers, and all three rooted! Jackie |
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| I suspect it depends on a lot of variables . . . The quality (and pH) of your soil and water, and the weather conditions. Probably more likely to work in Ireland, which at least gets rain, than in my arid SoCal conditions. Still -- it's a miracle, isn't it? Jeri |
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| That's terrific! Like Jackie says, it probably wouldn't work if you tried to do it on purpose, lol. |
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- Posted by mirendajean Donegal, Ireland (My Page) on Mon, May 27, 13 at 16:39
| Will it take long for other lateral canes to break? The main cane is so long and I can't see any signs of bud eyes. |
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| Patience. That is a brand new rooted cutting and it may be 2 or 3 years before it matures and starts to look like a decent bush. Whether you see them or not there are leaf nodes along that cane but there is no way of knowing if or when it will sprout them. It may send up new shoots from below instead. Just take good care of it and watch and wait. It's all you can do. |
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- Posted by mirendajean Donegal Ireland (My Page) on Tue, May 28, 13 at 12:27
| Thanks. I will be patient. :-) I've never had a cane that long decide to be a bush. I think the process of watching it grow, as opposed to my short little cuttings from my floribundas, is going to be different. I shall emerge from the experience a more patient person ;-) |
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