By the time it was all said and done I snapped pics of these cups.

All of the cuttings have calluses to some degree, but these were the standouts. All cuttings were taken October 10th.

I feel like I want to root everything now!

Josh

I just went from feeling generously supportive to jealously resentful.

So, do you do custom rooting for the less skillful? I expect an e-mail with DETAILED instructions.

Those are some fine roots--congratulations! Glad you didn't jerk them out of the cups to photograph, haha.

I had about the same reaction as you! I don't know when it happened but it looks like a handful of the roses decided to just go for it. 'G. Nabonnand' is definitely taking its sweet time, though.

If you've got something you'd like me to try to root I'd be happy to do so! The more practice the better! I honestly believe that the overall success is due mainly to the kinds of roses I tried to propagate. These roses are notoriously vigorous here as well as Texas lovers so I haven't really tried my hand at rooting difficult varieties.

I am glad I had enough sense in my head to photograph the cup too. I will admit though that my first, fleeting instinct was to dump the cutting out for a quick modeling session haha. Luckily, logic took over and I went for the gentler approach.

Josh

I am impressed! What method are you using ?

Lynn

Lynn,

I am using the baggie method. You can sort of see how I put a baggie over the top of the cup.

Josh

If you'll go to my 'My Page' you can send me an email. I'd be happy to give you detailed instructions about how I went about processing the cuttings for rooting. I can't guarantee it will work, but I'm happy to talk you through it.

Josh

Thanks! I'm excited it actually worked.

I was just saying that exact thing to someone from the boards. The success of the cuttings would most probably be attributed to the cultivars I am trying to propagate. None of them are particularly finicky roses, so I cannot take all the credit for the rooting.

Josh

Ingrid

It's so darned much fun to see those roots!

Boncrow,

Send me an email and I can run you through the roses I have that are great here. You can find my email if you click on my 'My Page.'

Happy gardening everyone!

Josh

I never know if they are teasing me with new growth after a month or if that is their way of giving up and dying.

But right now I am enjoying peaking in the box a couple of times a week to see what is going on.

It seems like Belinda's Dream wants to grow (of course that might be go) I few others too, but I think I will wait to say success for a few more months (I hate waiting)

Kippy,

Oh yes, they like to keep us guessing. I was so bad about checking these cuttings for callusing (much to the ire of my friends here on the board), I would dump the little guys out of their cups to try and check for roots. It's an exciting thing and they just can't grow quick enough for us!

Josh

Leonie Lamesch, 4 weeks old and also a root out of the bottom of the pot.

Madame Berard, looks like it will make it

Blush Noisette, all look pretty good

Russelliana, looking pretty good.

The rest I will just have to see how it goes.

Here's one I want more of:

Rather than keep the box at moms, I have it on my patio as close to the shady wall as possible. I have kept the top covered, other than a couple of foggy days I thought it was too shady and instead burnt them (that over tending issues)

BUT my patio has a 2 story stucco wall that reflects heat/light back and gets the concrete roasting hot in the sunny area. That heat radiates through the concrete to the shady wall and is like keeping a heating pad under the cutting box.

At the rate Belinda roots, I have to wonder why it is not a root stock...lol

A friend shared starts of Apostle Plant, the blue and white walking iris, which I potted and placed in the front planter in the walled area because it is the only place I can protect them and keep them sufficiently damp. Another friend has been supplying me with material from one of his seedlings I want to breed with, but nothing had worked propagating it. One month ago, I received a bundle of bud sticks from him. I budded all the seemingly suitable buds, then struck the remaining buds in the sticks from which I had removed buds, as cuttings and placed them in what seemed to me the perfect place. I nestled the pot up under the overhanging foliage of the Apostle Plants, behind the pots of budded stocks and rooted cuttings I've worked on for the past few months.

I kept the pot extremely well watered, perhaps a bit too over watered, but they didn't turn black nor dry out. This area receives strong, reflected light from just after sun up until a bit after 10:30 when the sun is directly overhead until a little after noon. Then it receives strong, reflected/indirect light for the rest of the day. Right now, 11:30, the sun is directly overhead and intense, but the overhanging foliage prevents them from being fried and provides strong humidity due to all the transpiration occurring from the surrounding plants. It is the closest to "green house conditions" I can create here without literally cooking the plant.

I tend to slice out buds on the lighter side to prevent removing pith with them. That appears to result in leaving some of the growth buds in the bud sticks. It appears very much like the images I posted showing what gets left in stocks if they aren't sufficiently dis budded prior to budding.
It appears from what I am seeing from the cuttings struck from the used bud sticks, there was enough of the growth bud remaining in them to not only root from the exposed cambium layer around the bud, but also grow from the remaining bud tissue. I removed many of the middle buds, leaving the smaller, less mature ones at the tops and bottoms of the sticks. The new growth seems to be coming from the "wounds" left from removing the buds in the middle of the sticks. This is what they look like one month (from 6-4 to 7-4) from being worked and struck.

It appears there should be a number of budded plants as well as a few own root, all from the same buds!

To answer the question of what material to use, ideally it is flowering stems from which perfect flowers have just fallen. By seeing what the bloom looked like before propagating it, you can be more sure what your new plant will look like when it flowers. Should that stem have mutated, sported, the resulting flower would have appeared different from what was expected, or the growth from that stem would have varied from the original, such as climbing instead of bush. If you propagate material from which you haven't seen blooms, should there have been a mutation you didn't see, you may propagate a plant which is quite a bit different from what you expect. That is often how degenerative mutations make their way into commerce. Bud wood or cuttings are harvested from the mother plants without seeing flowers and "surprise!" plants result from their use. Kim

I have 3 of 3 Sally Holmes, not sure they skipped a beat and still have the original leaf set left on the cutting

4 of 4 Belinda's Dreams, some not as wonderful as others, but all with little white roots peaking out of the bottom of their band pots

2 of 2 Leonie Lamesch (busy growing and will be the first to pot up at this rate)

2 of 2 Day Breaks (Musks)

2 of 2 Cornelia (Musk) only I hope this is a good clone because they came off a plant that does not bloom so who really knows what they will be or if my conditions will be different enough to do something. This is where Kim's advice about the spent blooms is important because I could be growing something else.

2 of 2 Mme Berard! I am excited about this one, they are smaller but I see roots starting out the bottom of pots

2 of 2 Mrs Dudley Cross! after deciding they were iffy at best but probably gonners, low and behold there are roots coming out of the bottom of the pots. This is where I am glad I learned the lesson on not giving up too soon.

2 of 2 Blush Noisettes, lots of little roots on these.

2 of 2 Russellianas

and 1 surprise rose...surprise cause I have no idea what it is and I was going to toss as dead but left hoping I would remember just what I poked in that pot....And Surprise, it is alive.

My little broken off canes from transport of my Vintage Rambler Mystery and Fields of the Wood look dead. But those were all new fresh growth so I was not sure they were going to make it anyway.

Belle Portugaise is looking like a gonner too, but will remember not to give up yet.

Now to keep them alive and growing.

At what point would you give them a tiny bit of very weak fish fertilizer? I think I will bring over a second box to put some of the larger and faster starting plants so they have more room to spread