Spontanious growth?

[nachoqtpie]

So, my husband bought me these BEAUTIFUL orange and peach roses for Valentines day. Needless to say, I'm not much of a cut flower person, but they are beautiful, so I put them in a vase on the counter and kinda forgot about them. Well, this moring I was going to toss them because they are dead. I guess it was a good thing my son said something because there was new growth coming off of a couple of the stems! Do you think that I will be able to get a viable plant out of this? Or would I need rots to graft the stem onto? I really hope I can get a plant from at least one of the stems! The roses were absolutely beautiful!

 

[lesa]

What can it hurt to try?? Keep us posted!

 

[catjac1975]

I have rooted roses like this in the past. Mine did not survive after a couple winters. It was still fun.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

My grandmother was very good at that stuff. She had a beautiful flower garden because of it. She would take a cutting from everyone's garden she in. Take it home, put it in her garden in whatever spot she wanted it to grow, put a glass jar over it and it would grow. She had a very green thumb.

 

[vfem]

My grandmother was very good at that stuff. She had a beautiful flower garden because of it. She would take a cutting from everyone's garden she in. Take it home, put it in her garden in whatever spot she wanted it to grow, put a glass jar over it and it would grow. She had a very green thumb.

My grandmother rocked at that stuff too! Sometimes I just wish she was around so I could pick her brain about these kind of things!

 

[nachoqtpie]

What would I even do to try and get roots on it?! Its literally just a stem and there are new leaves growing off it! Lol

When I was 8 or 9 I took a couple of popcorn kernels (I'm pretty sure it frm the bottom of of the popped corn bucket) and planted them in one of the house plants nd they sprouted! My son also inherited this trait. He started 3 different potato eyes from our bag of potatoes and the first one he started is getting pretty big! One of them, he just pulled the eye off, with no meat around it and IT is starting to spout! My mom said that my grampa was like that too... could grow anything.

If I can get this rose to sprout, I would be sooo happy! <3

 

[catjac1975]

What would I even do to try and get roots on it?! Its literally just a stem and there are new leaves growing off it! Lol

When I was 8 or 9 I took a couple of popcorn kernels (I'm pretty sure it frm the bottom of of the popped corn bucket) and planted them in one of the house plants nd they sprouted! My son also inherited this trait. He started 3 different potato eyes from our bag of potatoes and the first one he started is getting pretty big! One of them, he just pulled the eye off, with no meat around it and IT is starting to spout! My mom said that my grampa was like that too... could grow anything.

If I can get this rose to sprout, I would be sooo happy! <3

You can just stick in in potting soil and cover with a jar or plastic bag.
A better way is to dip the stem in rooting hormone and use coir as your medium, again covering with plastic. If there are any large leaves I would remove them. Just leave your small sprouts. Coir is coconut husk. It is sold in a brick, (about $3-$4) You add water and it expands. I use it in seed starting. It is sterile and prevent mold and the like. Do not over water or let dry out.

 

[digitS']

At the greenhouse where I worked, we would root rose cuttings in a propagation chamber. It had an automatic misting system.

Before the misting system was put in, the jar-over-the-cutting technique was used.

Rooting medium continued to be perlite.

Steve

 

[nachoqtpie]

So.. here are a couple pictures... I'm not quite sure what it is that I need to do.

This is the bottom portion

and this is the top

Do I just stick the entire stem in the ground? All of this is happening bu just leaving it in the water. Do you think that if I left them in the water that they would sprout roots? The stems are too tall to cover them with a bag or jar, or should I stick the stem farther in the ground, like up to the very bottom sprout?

ETA: mixed up the pictures

 

[catjac1975]

Clip them above and below the sprouts 2-3 inches. Put the stem a couple inches under the soil after dipping in rooting hormone, leaving the sprout slightly above the soil level. Don't wait too long.