Decorating your summer cottage: how to grow roses from seeds?

In practice, the use of the seed method of propagating these beautiful flowers is usually used when breeding new varieties and to obtain full-fledged seeds from rose seedlings. Varieties of roses that do not transmit their natural qualities to seedlings reproduce in another way: vegetatively or by grafting.

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Flower shops offer a wide variety of rose seeds, from “classics” (the “Angels Wings” variety) to high-status Floribunda varieties. You can use seeds for planting from your summer cottage.

How grow roses from seeds of varieties of canina, cinnamon, needle-leaved, red-leaved, wrinkled, the most beautiful express perennial “Wings of Angels”, most suitable for propagation, easily grafted. The second half of summer is the period of ripening of the fruits of these crops; you can determine the moment of need to collect seeds by their characteristic red or yellow color. After harvesting, you need to remove the seeds from the fruits, add clean river sand (moistened!) or a sand-peat mixture in a ratio of four to one. Next, the mixture in boxes is sent to the basement.

You should not dry the seeds of rose crops; germination will become less vigorous. The period of seed stratification requires from eight to eighteen months. The optimal temperature is maintained at up to three degrees.Free access of air and sufficient humidity are required.

There is no need for stratification for seeds of rugose and cinnamon rose varieties. In autumn they are sown in the ground, and in spring the first shoots appear.

For seedling growing method Compact polyanthus roses with abundant flowering are suitable for seedlings. They are grown both in the garden and at home. Seed material is placed on seedlings in pots in winter in order to maintain the stratification period.

The crops are treated with an aqueous solution using a spray bottle, the pot is packed with plastic wrap and left in the room for two weeks, after which a period of stratification begins, lasting from one to two months. During this time, the temperature of the storage location should not exceed seven degrees.

Quality plants' seeds when using pre-sowing soaking and growth stimulants, they produce the first shoots even with stratification. To prevent the seedlings from overgrowing, they must be placed in a cool but well-lit place. The seedlings are carefully protected from exposure to sunlight. It is important.

To obtain rose seeds, you must have a well-sharpened knife on hand to carefully cut the fruit. Next you will need:

The seeds are carefully removed from the cut fruit. The pulp is removed because its presence slows down sprout yield.

The next step is disinfection of seeds using hydrogen peroxide. Seeds in a sieve are lowered into the solution for 20 minutes; bubbles may form. This is normal.

Next, the seeds are laid out on a substrate and covered with the same material soaked in a solution of hydrogen peroxide.

Each variety is packaged in an individual bag (do not remove the soaked napkins), on which a note about the variety is made and the date is indicated. Store in the refrigerator, the vegetable section is suitable for this. During storage, it is necessary to periodically check for the appearance of mold. If present, the packaging napkins are replaced. After one and a half to two months of planting, the first shoots appear and are transferred to pots or peat tablets.

In order to prevent education "black legs» the surface of the substrate is mulched with a thin layer of perlite. Additional illumination of seedlings is added (10 hours of daylight). As a result, you get strong, developed seedlings. Watering is done as needed. Saturation with fertilizers - in very limited quantities.

For the first bud to appear after transplanting into a pot, eight weeks of plant development are required, and after another three to five weeks, touching and delicate miniature flowers on a tiny bush begin to open.

Fragrant...refined...and most importantly – original! A rose grown by you from seeds.

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