Melvalena,This is so much similar to what we do for Winter sowing except that it had the bottle cap on. Just the other day I was thinking why we cannot apply the same strategy of wintersowing to root roses !!

Great link, thnx!!

I was visiting Carrie yesterday and she told me she doesn't use the terrarium method. She preps and pots the cuttings in a pot and sets it in the shade. Some place cool with no direct sun.

I have lots of cuttings to play with (thanks to Carrie) and I think I'll try both methods and see how they compare for me.

Last fall I came across that web site that showed step by step directions for rooting roses using burrito method. You prep your cuttings, wrap in wet newspaper and then plastic. Put them aside in cool dark place for a month. When you check on them, throw out any that turned black and pot up the rest. I went looking for that info again and she had updated that post saying it looked so promising in the beginning but everyone of her cuttings died.

She grows roses to sell so its important to her that she have more success than failure.

Good luck with yours!

Melva, I have cuttings from Carrie that I put in potting soil and one that I left in a bucket of water because I didn't want to mess with it after I planted the others, it had flowers on it and I was thinking of taking it inside, but didn't. The one in the water has leaf buds and looks like it wants to form roots...but it's looked like that for a couple months now. I haven't had a chance to look at the cuttings in pots, and they've been left outside with pretty much only the rain to water them. I had lofty ideas when I got the cuttings from Carrie, but life kind of got in the way. What are y'all's thoughts on what I should do? I've never tried rooting roses before!

I really don't know for sure what to tell you. I have heard of people having roses in a vase take root so maybe its possible?

Wow, that's interesting! The only way I know to root roses is to cut, dip in root tone, I plant in damp soil in a styrofoam cup with holes in the bottom for drainage, spray, cover each one with a baggie, making it a mini greenhouse. I keep them in the house in a south facing window, really never needed to add water, most made it, some didn't! The first year I did this I was very diligent in making sure everything was okay, and had good success. The second year I was so proud of myself and wasn't as diligent, had little success! Go figure.

Melvalena, for years I've put my cuttings into "communal" pots and let them sit in the shade, keeping them semi moist. Once they've been there a few months and put on some good foliage I'd repot them separately. I've also tried the burrito method. The first time I had great luck, the second time, not so much. But I read that if the newspaper is too damp they can rot easily. I think that might be what happened. Some roses just don't root well, and that could be an issue instead of how they were handled. Roselee does the mini-greenhouse method, putting her potted cuttings into plastic bags. She has very good luck doing that. We both have a LOT more roses than we know what to do with. The thing I'd say to anyone who wants to try their hand at propagating roses is...just keep trying.

patty

Albert asked this same question this week, I asked a master gardener at the county extension service in Rockport. She said to dip the cutting in root hormone, then plant in the soil, put a plastic baggie on top of the plant, and keep the soil moist. I remember my mothers method, she had great success. She put the cutting in soil, kept it moist, but instead of a plastic baggie, she put one of those glass jars on top, kinda like a mini greenhouse. She had sandy loam soil, I think fast drainage is important to the success. Barbra