Cuttings of roses from a bouquet: a few rules

A bouquet of roses presented as a gift, without any doubt, it will bring great joy to any woman. However, this joy, as a rule, does not last long, less than a week, that is, until the flowers wither. However, you don’t have to throw away an outdated bouquet at all - you can try to root the flowers and thus acquire your own flowerbed of roses.

Preparation for rooting roses is their cuttings. Cuttings of roses from a bouquet – the process is quite complex, requiring compliance with certain rules. So, this event is best carried out in late spring or early summer, when flower shoots are actively growing. Suitable for cutting exclusively stems of fresh, blooming roses, which must first be kept in clean water for several days so that they are saturated with moisture and ripen.

Cuttings of roses from a bouquet must be done with a very sharp knife, which would not crush the stem tissue, so that each cutting would have two buds. In this case, the upper straight cut should be 2-3 centimeters above the upper bud, and the lower oblique cut should be 6-7 centimeters below the lower bud. Leaves on the cutting interfere with its rooting, therefore the bottom sheet must be completely removed, and cut off the top one, leaving two out of five leaves. Roses with short stems can be cut into cuttings with not two, but one bud, so that it is located in the middle of the cutting, the length of which should be about 6-8 centimeters.In addition, in many varieties of roses, small single-bud cuttings take root much faster.