I wanna try my hand at rooting rose cuttings. I bought a product called garden safe takeroot rooting hormone with indole-3 butyric acid in it. The instructions say to moisten the cut ends and stir them in the powder. But, ive googled cpl articles to get as much info as i can. And 2 articles i read said to disolve it in ethyl alcohol and dilute with distilled water. Can i use regular isopropyl alcohol for this? Or some 2 yr old moonshine i have? Any other ideas or suggestions?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Rooting powder is often little or no help. If you can find somewhere cool and shady and you do have anything like a dormant season, then hardwood cuttings at the beginning of the season work well. Take lengths of about one to two feet and put three quarters of the stem in the ground, in the coldest place you have, leave for two years before lifting.
Fernapple
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Apr 11, 2019
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I always had great success in taking a cutting and sticking it strait in the ground. Chose a place that has the most moisture. Strip all but the first two sets of leaves off. Rooting hormone never worked for me. I found out I have a very green thumb. Especially when it comes to starts.
freeofgod
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Apr 10, 2019
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I live in texas. Think its prolly to hot and dry them out too fast outdoors. Dunno
@RickyAdams , if you have plenty of starts it's worth a try. Or try rooting them in water often works. I put them in as deep as possible. Up to six inches. Gives them cooler, damper, soil beneath them where the roots form. And they seem to form on the places the leaves have been stripped from. This is just my (30 years) experience. Nothing scientific about it.
@RickyAdams - I live near you (closer to Fort Worth). I would be concerned about the heat and lack of humity as well. I don't know about your area, but my soil is very much clay - it will even bake and crack in July/August. I would think you might needs a soil that is more humous. I have not had much success with cuttings unless it is herbs or succulents which root readily. Even the herbs I have layered for the best success.
@AmiSue i thought when u did it that way roots produced would only absorb water and not nutrients?
@RussRAB. Yea. Ive got alot of clay too. Im prolly only about an hour from u. About 1/2 between dallas and sherman
@RickyAdams , if you get roots started they will take to soil given the right conditions. A limb from a willow will root anyplace around here. Roses are only slightly more difficult. My grandmother would set a rose twig in the soil and cover it with a quart jar. Makes a little greenhouse effect. Holds moisture in.
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