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How about this for growing your rose cuttings. Apparently is does work.
I wonder if anything else would take like this.

Beryl.

Well, I've never seen anything like that before except when my children had a potato clock....

I stick mine in a slit trench like currant cuttings, they do very well on their own roots too.

MW

If I was to be shown the end result then I might be convinced that this works. What's supposed to happen? I can suppose that the sprouting potato releases sugars which could nourish the cutting. It might be that auxins are released by the spud, too. I can foresee that the tuber will shrivel, desiccating the cutting. I don't see what's problematic about sticking them into the ground, really. I rooted a China rose from a cutting. It's the best rose in my sister's garden. No suckers, neither, when grown from a cutting.

isn't that a bit of a waste of a good potato?

I'm going to try it..just to see what happens.

They are still supposed to be put in the ground!

http://www.amateurgardening.com/home/ta ... -cuttings/

I have asked for a photo of when it has rooted but so far nothing. Maybe it is a hoax but I was assured it worked. Not being a rose grower I wouldn't know. It's been a talking point if nothing else.

Beryl.

alan refail wrote:They are still supposed to be put in the ground!

http://www.amateurgardening.com/home/ta ... -cuttings/

Well fancy. Surely the potato will still grow? No, I'm not convinced. I don't see that potatoes need to be involved. It's all a bit wrong. And it's not as though roses are difficult from cuttings.

Hi Beryl,
Looks like the product of an over active brain to me!
What must be remembered is that many modern roses have never been grown on their own roots and are likely not to react like the parent.
With the older roses they mostly grow as their parent but this depends when they were produced. If in doubt and you have a handy sucker available then grafting is probably the safer method.
JB.

I've successfully taken cuttings of many shrub roses and older rambling and climbing varieties. I don't grow the modern HTs but have done some floribundas. They don't seem to vary in vigour from their grafted 'parents'.

MW

Hi JB,

I know absolutely nothing about rose growing and yes, I am sure now it is a wind-up. I can appreciate their beauty and will leave it to the experts to carry on doing a wonderful job for us all to enjoy.

Beryl.