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jacqueline9ca

Trying to root Le Vesuve

8 years ago

So, I am unfortunately down to one bush of Le Vesuve, a rooted cutting from my old ancient enormous and now passed bush. I had 2 other rooted cuttings which grew happily into 7 X 7 ft. bushes, and then died, both of them in 2 weeks, of downey mildew.


They were both planted in the same place, and now I am waiting for my DH to dig up ALL of the soil there and replace it. That has worked for us in another place where every rose kept dying of DM. No idea why - very close by roses have been fine.


Anyway, I need another bush to plant in the same place but with different soil, or hopefully more than one, so I can place one elsewhere. LV has been more difficult for me to root than other roses. I tried last year, using the one gallon plastic bag method, and they all died, although one lived long enough to make roots - I probably killed it when I tried to put it into a small pot.


So, here is what I tried this time - 4 different attempts in 3 different places, hoping at least one will work:


1) 2 cuttings are in small clay pots with potting soil, inside of TWO GALLON plastic bags, underneath a small upside down fish tank (to keep the cats off the cuttings) on our bright light but no direct sun back glassed in porch.

2) I cutting is in a similar small clay pot underneath a plastic cloche thing which has a hole in the top to add water if needed, on our front porch. The cloche thing has flat bottom parts which are horizontal, so I have put bricks on those to keep the squirrels from digging in the pot.

3) Last one - I took a long cane of the one bush I have of LV and pulled it over so that it was touching the dirt, dug a small trench under it, buried a part of it under about 4 inches of soil, and put a heavy rock on top of it. This is how my FIL used to root LV many years ago, so I thought I would try it.


I don't really have any questions - I am just looking for moral support, as I REALLY want more of this rose - it is one of my very favorites, and of course I want one rooted from the clone which was planted in our garden by my DH's ancestors.


jackie

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  • 8 years ago

    I root a lot of roses and do it in open air. It could be more humid here than where you are though. It is one variable that might be worth considering. I had bad results from plastic bags or covers, though I am probably going to try that again for some hard to root ones. Another variable I changed last year was taking cuttings in late fall and also in February. I had good results with that for some hard to root ones.

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