I thought about doing this but it is too expensive for me.

For Christmas last year, my bro gave me an Aerogarden (which is an indoor hydroponic grower intended to grow kitchen herbs). It was quickly hijacked into rooting rose cuttings. It works fine, but you still need to spray mist the cuttings at least daily and more if the weather is warm, or else you will lose the leaves before the roots form (at which point the cutting dies). If you can keep the leaves for a few weeks, the roots do eventually show up. In addition to the tablet food that came with the system, I put a couple drops of Dip & Grow and a capful of Superthrive in the recirculating water. Takes about 3-4 weeks to get enough roots to transplant into dirt.

Follow-up on this Aerogarden experiment -- while I was able to get roots on cuttings, I have not yet been able to get any of them to transfer to soil -- once potted in a planting medium, they just fade away and die.

Does anyone have any idea how to take a hydroponically grown rooted cutting to soil? I obviously am doing it wrong by just sticking it in the soil.

Kathy

I’ve done a lot of coneing other plants with clients it’s best to go into a airy meadium after the cloned like rock wool the roots have so much oxygen in the closer that they are staved out in soil so put the roots in rock wool and plant the rock wool in the soil.

I've actually read of people using rock wool as a rooting medium, but have never tried myself. I wonder how it would do for roses?