If you search for Florist Roses on this forum, you will find a lot of threads. Click on the magnifying glass 🔍 in the top bar to do this. Have fun! Tip: click on the topic heading first, so you are on the main page for that and only that topic (e.g. Rose Propagation and Exchange”). Then click on the magnifying glass and type your search words. Wait a moment for the drop down (e.g. Florist Roses in Rose Propagation and Exchange). Click on that one. If you click on ”...in discussions” it does weird things.

@noseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque) I really appreciate your help! I'm still pretty new to using Houzz so your guidance is invaluable!!

I know people do root them but I've tried many times with no success. But it can't hurt to try!

I tried rooting them and have a couple plants now. It took longer than normal cuttings to root. I used strong hormone powder, Hormex number 8. It’s fun watching them rooted 😁

My first rooted ones were back in the 1980's. Some have been OK, others weren't worth the effort. Carlton Rose Nursery existed to sell florist varieties and had been in business since 1938. MANY florist types went through Euro Desert Roses. Unfortunately, neither exist any longer.

yes-I had an obsession doing that last winter. I used Clonex rooting gel and potting soil.I rooted a crazy white climber. It is strange how its not obvious at all in the grocery store bouquet that it is a climbing rose.

I have been wondering, if you feed the roses with the food packets that come with the bouquet, will they still be able to root?

I ordered Hocus Pocus from Carlton's in the early to mid 2000's. Great, but almost immediately reverted to Black Beauty (its sport parent). It is a notoriously unstable sport. So a friend and I decided to try to root florist stems of Hocus Pocus. I bought 3 stems from a local florist, and we divided each into two parts, and I think we got 5 out of 6 to root. Highly successful. I still have three of my original Hocus Pocus/Black Beauties from that rooting episode or from Carlton's (I'd have to check my database on who is from who). Interesting is that at some point, I had a branch of Frisco, the original sport parent (a pure yellow rose) show up on one of them. Anyway, if you're not interested in the weird Hocus Pocus story, I had great success rooting florist roses.

How marvelous, Susan! I gave that to Gregg SO many years ago and he lost it. I currently have a four foot tall, two cane wonder, own root virus indexed Sterling Silver from UC Davis Foundation Plant Services. Once I can get these Pink Clouds pieces Kippy brought yesterday rooted, I intend to push that and several other things this next season. I'm glad you still have that. Thank you for being such a good steward of it! Oh, and congratulations on retiring!

Kim, the number of (now) rare roses I have lost over the years pains me immensely. I used to order regularly from Vintage and Pickering, etc. Now that I'm retired, my work turns from teaching chemistry to saving as many of my rare roses as possible to spread them around. Your Sterling Silver currently has two great blooming canes, so I will strike them soon.

@susan9santabarbara Are you a member of the Santa Barbara Rose Society?

Roseseek, I was a member of the Santa Barbara RS for almost 15 years, from late 1990s to early 2010s. I was also a member of the Santa Clarita RS (love Kitty B) and the Ventura RS (particularly loved Jim D). The only one I still maintain is the Ventura RS. I was a CR from 2002-2005, but I let it lapse b/c the PSWD wouldn't give me an extension when my mom got cancer and I couldn't make the re-up test.

Of course houzz has changed things and now the search engine doesn't work worth crap.

It is a shame. If you input into the URL:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/[forum]/query/[search word 1]-[search word 2]-.... you can make it work!

FWIW I have some florist roses rooting now. 5 of the cuttings have good sized callouses and are looking very healthy. I used information I learned on the thread about biochar and mixed small chunks of charcoal left over from the fireplace (ponderosa pine logs being burned) into garden soil since all my potting mix is frozen solid. I think that the biochar improved my rooting rate considerably since this is the best success percentage I have ever had.