I hope that works Buford. I would dip the broken top in Dip-n-Grow and do what you did. It could have a good chance if you found it right away. Good luck.

I would continue care as if it had a limb and let it be. The same thing happened to one of my rose bushes earlier this year. I thought it was a goner, but did not have the time to dig it up, so it continued to received the same care ( water) that other roses received... I have posted images of blooms from this rose bush recently.

Good Luck.. A.D. is a great rose to have..

I'm afraid I can't really help you now and I second Desertgarden and continue the care of your rose. What happened to your AD reminds me of pruning the longest stems now by a third or half to make them less susceptible to the season storms before they hit us.

That happened with my own-root William Shakespeare 2000. If there are any buds below the break, it will come back. Take some "before" photos and when it grows back, you can proudly show us the "after" photos.

I hope there is something left on the graft. The broken off part of the rose seems to be holding it's own in the pot for now. It just seems so sudden, I was out there yesterday and everything was fine.

Was this a grafted or own root rose? Own root should be no problem. It will take more time for it to recover and regrow but it will. If it was grafted it will depend on weather the cane broke off above or below the graft. Above, should be OK. Below it will probably grow back as the root stock and not Abe.

Keep your potted cutting evenly moist but not too wet and leave it alone. Patience is the hardest part of rooting cuttings. It may take several weeks to root and much longer to show signs of growth. As long as the cane stays green and plump looking it should be fine. If it starts to turn black or shriveled it probably won't make it.

It was grafted. I am not sure there is anything left on the graft of the scion rose. As I said, this was one that I had to dig up when my yard was under construction and I nursed it in a pot for two years. It was small when I replanted it and only had the one cane. I can replace it, it just gets me mad when this happens. I lost a rose the same way last year.

I know how you feel, Buford. I've done this myself and I always feel just sick about it. But these things happen. All you can do is keep caring for it and give it some time to see what happens. I hope your cutting roots for you too. That way you could end up with two beautiful roses!

Fig that is the exact way my grandmother taught me years ago and how I do it too!

Sometimes I'm lazy and I don't use the 2L bottle just to see what happens. Roses seem to be 50/50 without the bottle coverage, but sometimes I'm lazy and do it without anyway.

I found that Nepeta almost has 100% success rate though, even without the 2L bottle. Even when flowering! So easy!

Buford did you put any rooting hormone gel or powder on the cane? Or take off any of the buds that were forming? I'm just thinking that may help the "cutting" direct energy to establishing.

What a shame the wind is so destructive there! I'm so sorry!

Help!!!!I was fencing in my garden to keep the animals out and my rose broke off at the base,this was my favorite Lincoln rose,my mother had planted 5 years prior.She passed away a few years ago,I wasn't sure what to do I cut out a potato and put root dip in it and on the rose and replanted hoping for the best did I do the right thing?

It is worth a try, Kathy. I would have skipped the potato and put the "cutting" in the shade in the ground. Keep hoping for the base of the original plant to regrow the correct variety too.

How long was the cane? If it was a long one I would cut it into 8 inch pieces and try to root each piece. I would also skip the potato. That really doesn't work. Put them either in the ground in semi shade as Sheila said or pot them up. They need to be kept moist but not soggy. Good Luck!

@Kathy Williamson Kathy, you don't say where you are, or what your current weather is like. More importantly, we need to know if the rose was dormant or has leafed out.

There's not much hope of the whole plant rooting, if it had no rootstock left at all. If it had been chewed by varmints, but still had some root left, you could prune it back, replant in a large pot (easier to control the moisture, etc), and hope for the best. But if there's no root at all, and the rose was still mostly dormant, you can try the method for rooting cuttings that I laid out 7 or 8 posts above this one.

If the rose has already started growing, you could still take cuttings, but how you handle them would be different, and your chances are slightly less favorable. There are tutorials all over Youtube on how to root roses.

You can still try rooting roses in active growth in the ground, but you'd need to leave at least one, preferably two sets of leaves at the top. Since warm weather is coming up, these later cuttings would still need to be covered (for humidity), and placed in partial shade to prevent over-heating. This is iffy, just because the growth phase the cuttings are in makes a world of difference. If the cuttings are too soft, they wilt and die before they can root. If the wood is too old, they won't root at all. The ideal is semi-hardwood of this year's growth. A good bet is taking a cutting of wood that has just flowered. Unfortunately, I'm betting your rose isn't in that phase yet, unless you're in California.

It may not be any consolation, but Mr Lincoln is fairly easy to get hold of, and technically, all Mr Lincolns are clones of the same original plant. So even though it won't be the rose your mom planted (although, it kind of *is*), you can get a replacement.

John

Thanks so much for all the advice ,Eastern Ky.and the rose was approximately 4-5 feet tall.I would really hate to cut it up into pieces.Also it was all full of new leaves looking really good,and did not wilt much at all over night after replanting back in the same spot only a few inches away from original base.Should I leave it in the potato or not?

I might remove the potato and redip the broken piece in the rooting hormone and put it in a separate place. The original plant might grow a plant from below the break. If your top cutting takes and grows you would need them farther apart. You could put the cutting top in a pot in a shady area.

Kathy, John is probably right making cuttings of the top would be your best chance ASAP. Strip those leaves off. The original plant base might still grow too. I have an ongoing effort to salvage 6 roses whose roots were eaten by gophers by plunking the plant in a pot and trying to regrow roots. I'm hoping for the best but mine had a root stump to work with rather than a cane break. I'd soak the top in a trug of water before making cuttings.

This just happened to me today. I just purchased a baby 1 quart rose plant. The wind blew hard, and the leaves plus identification tag snapped the plant almost to the soil line. It's ownroot, so maybe the plant will come back, but it's so tiny as it is. The stem is like 1/2" now and the size of a q-tip so I don't think the top will grow either.

Treat the top like a cutting and keep watering the roots. You may get two plants.

Kathy, how is your Lincoln rose doing?? A wind storm just did the same to a ~24 inch Knock-Out 'tree' I have. no sentimental attachment, but I hate to just put a beautifully leafed rose plant in the compost heap :(