Someone asked me about the "Vanessa Method of Rooting Roses", so here's the method as best I remember:

(Vanessa or anyone, feel free to amend, correct, or improve).

Prepare your container.

Vanessa uses clear plastic drinking cups so that she can see roots forming without removing the little rose from the cup & disturbing it.

Poke drainage holes in the bottom of the cup.

Use coconut coir, available at pet stores, for the rooting medium.

Break apart the coir brick & soak it in a bucket of water.

When it's saturated, put it in the container, & use a pencil to make "post holes".

Take a cutting from the growing tip of a rose (one that hasn't already been cut).

Remove most of the leaves, including any tender new growth, leaving only a few at the top.

Using a knife or the blade of a pair of scissors, gently scrape off the "skin" below that first node, & submerge the cutting in water & cut it again about 1" below a node or joint.

This fills the cut end with water instead of air, so that the little cutting can uptake water without being stopped up by a "cork" of air.

You can also split the end where the stem is cut.

What you're doing here is exposing as much inner tissue as possible to the rooting hormone & the medium:

The inner tissue is the part that forms roots.

Dip the scraped area in a rooting hormone & gently tap off the excess (too much will burn the cutting).

Gently put the cutting into one of your "post holes"

(if you just stick the cutting into the coir, you may scrape off the rooting hormone), then gently tap the coir back into place around the cutting.

Spritz the cutting with water, & keep it in a warm shady spot until you see roots through the sides of the cup.

It seems like Vanessa uses a clear plastic cover to keep the humidity high.

I don't have one of those, so I just put the roses in the shade & keep them spritzed;

easy enough, since I check them every day anyway.

As soon as you see roots, prepare a "real" pot with good potting soil & re-plant your rose in that.

Baby it until it grows up somewhat;

this will be an "own-root" rose, & its root system won't grow as vigorously as the grafted varieties that we buy in the nurseries or mail order places.

(Vanessa gave me a couple of roses at the last swap that she had rooted the previous summer, & I still have them in pots & protect them from the worst of our heat.)

If you want to root some roses, you might go ahead & get started:

Vanessa says that the ones that are rooted in the warm months do well & that if you start them too late in the year, they aren't strong enough to last over the winter.