Yup, been there, done that. Every time I make my potting mix a bit dryer and my success rate improves a little. It’s so counter-intuitive, I find it so hard not to water. Looking forward to my next batch - those “black mouldy sticks” are sooo depressing; especially after waiting, hopefully, for weeks. Keep at it! 🌹
You are phenomenal at instructive presentations, Jason!!! *THANK YOU* for providing a link to the chart in the description! I've saved it in my "Favorites" list along with this video. What a generous thing to do for us frustrated gardeners! If we all succeed with propagating roses, the world will be all the more prettier. Good luck to everyone with their cuttings!💚👍🌹
We tried some cuttings we took as the snow was flying here in USA, Michigan last fall. We got many to start rooting after a few months. We had too much moisture after though, and they all went to rot! Watching this video showed us all the areas we can improve. Even though we did many things wrong and they eventually died, we got some root growth. The spark is lit and we are geared up for June this year! Thanks for all the great info for us to try this season. GL on the season.
You are amazing! I honestly don’t know what I would do without your tutorials! I am trying to save my Pope John Paul II. It seems to be on its way out. I’m hoping to get one last season from it or at least a few good cuttings so I can grow another plant. I’d really hate to lose it! I have rooted cuttings before but lost them in the next phase. I can’t thank you enough for this video! Hopefully my mother plant will bounce back or I can at least get a productive cutting! Thank you so much Jason! I will download the chart! God bless you!
Excellent video with essential steps, i did have to smile when you mentioned watering your potted plants once or twice a week because here in Oklahoma USA i water mine daily and occasionally twice daily even using shade cloth due to high temperatures and drying wind during the summer. Climate definitely makes a big difference.
Thanks William! It really can't be overstated how important it is to customize your growing plans based on local climate and growing conditions. Several times while I was working on this, I hesitated and almost scrapped it for that reason. What I'm hoping is that even a rough schedule from my growing conditions may be a useful starting point for a plan that's bound end up quite different.
Thank you so much for your propagation chart form, it's really useful to me! You always give us useful and honest infromations, That's why I always come to see your new vedioes.
I have watched this post several times and find it the most helpful instructional video for propagating not only roses but most deciduous plants. Thanks for taking the time to educate us!
Wow. Densely packed. I have been helping a friend do her first attempts at propogating from cuttings (hydrangea and rosemary). I wish I had had this video six weeks ago. It could have saved me time and frustration. Thanks. I will use this next time.
OMG, I asked this very question of you (in my head, as I was looking at salvia cuttings I did in April that are rooted but just not growing) this morning!!! Thank you!!
Estupendo video, me encanta tu generosidad al enseñarnos y compartir tus conocimientos, a mi me gusta hacer esquejes de rosas, pero desde que estoy viendo tus videos me doy cuenta que cometo muchos errores, y tengo mucho que aprender. Por ejemplo hoy hemos pasado un día muy entretenido con mi nieto haciendo esquejes, mi tasa de enraizamiento es muy baja así que lo intento muchas veces, y mis fracasos no terminan de frustarme...al reves me hace volver a intentarlo. Saludos desde Alicante, España.
Jason, I hear on the BBC this evening that Fraser Valley & Abbotsford are in the grip of very heavy rain and flooding today. I hope you, your family and your neighbours are all safe. I am sure that whatever the seriousness of the current situation, you strike me (from the few videos I have watched and enjoyed) as the sort of resilient person who will prevail. All the best, Adam
Thanks for your concern Adam! We're fine here on the farm, but some of our neighbors just south of the river were evacuated. Looks like they're getting a grip on it now.
Wow a whole 9 months; one could have a baby!! lol! It's crazy, my mother just takes her cuttings, stick them in a pot and voila! She also takes a stem from the mother rose, bends it, puts a rock on top and voila, she has another rose bush. Old fashion ways, but they work. This right here was very informative as always, just wow! I learned a lot! Just went on your website to see you don't ship to USA. Totally understand after reading your story. Thank you so much for, once again, educating us with thorough information. :)
Excellent. One of your best videos. Brilliant table. Just discovered gardening. Challenge will be adapting to local conditions and small area. Thanks for the help.
Thanks Jason! I took your advice about trying softwood cuttings and it looks like 5 out of 6 have rooted - just waiting for the new growth now! Trying another batch but I’m worried about an early fall. I’m already seeing birds flying south and trees are dropping their leaves due to the drought… here’s hoping they have enough time to establish!
How exciting! I guess it depends on your climate a bit, but I suspect you'll have plenty of time to establish good roots before the risk of hard frost. I'm still actively taking cuttings now.
Thank you Jason, I have a rose in my garden I absolutely love but I don't know what variety it is so I couldn't source it, after watching your video I took few cuttings 6 weeks ago and in 3 of them the leaves still look healthy and bright, I can't wait to see what will happen next
Thank you Jason for this very informative tutorial video :) I suppose this means I should know how to propagate roses now....only I haven't been very successful so far (I watched your other ones). I'll have to give it another shot!
Thanks for this great video The chart you provided is really helpful. I will try to tweek it as I am based in Kuwait and our weather is quite different. Our winters are mild with temp between 10-20 and the summer is between 40-50 🔥
This year I noticed peach coloured roses growing up on a hillside behind an old apple tree in my yard. I can’t get to it due to overgrowth mixed with other wild roses, their thorns and a ton of raspberries. But it is very tall., there appears to be more than one. Beautiful peach roses. Very beautiful fragrance. I think they may be climbing roses. I want to get them out or take cuttings to multiply. 😍
Hi your teaching is awesome,easy to follow. I and my daughter are rose lovers and we are going to grow rose farm in Thailand. I have subscribed to your channel. Cheers
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Wow I just came back to basically leave the same comment. No cap your videos are the best on youtube for us small nurseries and you communicate so well specifically to my learning style. You have successfully presold me for whatever learning products you have coming out later, i'm grateful for you sharing your knowledge without a paywall.
I love this video and the chart. It's very helpful. I'd like to ask you a favor: could you turn captions on? I hope I didn't miss something you said in this video because of my hearing problem. Thanks.
Thanks - I'm working on the issue. Google's automatic captioning system has been glitching pretty badly, and they haven't been offering me any useful guidance. To me, it's really important to provide the captions (for many reasons, but also because my mother is hearing impaired). Cross fingers, I think I've found a workaround that wont have me manually (and slowly, at my typing speed) transcribing the videos. It might take me a day or two sometimes to solve the problem, but I'll get it done.
I’m going to try getting cutting next year we are getting an Arctic blast and it is the end of Dec but I do plan on trying to get some of my roses propagated
Thanks for sharing, this was the info I was looking for , I just kill my first Rose , I replanted to a bigger container way too early :( I whish I have look for this info before I decided to moved . lesson learn the hard way.
Jason, I seen the chart on from cuttings to planting. Would you share a copy of that so I can print it as user reference. Hard to read on my cell phone. Lol Nicely done Regards
A very clear and elaborate explanation on rose propagation. Lately many video's pop up in which rose cuttings are placed in a banana, potato, garlic, carrot etc. and show results, to good to be true in my opinion. What is your professional opinion on that kind of rose propagation? I myself believe more in the potting soil and rooting powder method.
Thanks for the fast conformation of the propagation fakes. I already looked at various video's on your channel but did not encounter the one from about one year ago. Thanks for pointing it out.
RU-vid should reinstate the counter on the thumbs down again so viewers can better distinguish between true and false video's. The RU-vid reason (protecting delicate souls of the creators from hard negative numbers ) for removing it was stupid from my prospective.
I love all your videos but especially your propagation videos! 🤩 If you ever need more topics for videos I have a few suggestions 😉 1. What to do with a container plant that got too much sun. It seems like mine always die no matter what I do 😫 2. How to keep a plant in a container it has outgrown without getting a bigger container. Can roots be cut back like a bonsai? 3) what you think of air pots. I noticed you didn't use them so I just wondered what you thought.
Another wonderfully clear and interesting presentation! Thank you for showing the whole sequence of rose propagation. I hope you are planning to author a book on the subject of roses! Is it okay to propagate a patented rose for personal use?
Thanks Kristine. No, I don't think a book is likely - video seems to work nicely into my life. Patented roses: no, it's still prohibited even for personal use. I don't think anyone is checking tho...
No, it isn't...but in our rose group, we often make a back-up rose, if we are worried that we would lose the original. Patents only last 20 years, so pre-2002 is open now!
Ahhh this was fantastic! I’ve struggled big time with trying to propagate roses living in Florida. I think too much moisture and humidity early on was the biggest problem I faced. We are moving much more north soon though so I’ll definitely be giving it a try! Do climbing roses follow the same steps?
Sincere question, when I was studying african violet and succulent propagation I discovered in a video from a large producer that the cutting workers left the stems open to air for ten to fifteen minutes to aid callas formation, now granted it's a completely different plant but it worked, wondering if you allow rose cuttings to be open to air for a length of time before dipping and plugging? Many thanks, you are a good teacher, b (p.s. thanks for the graphic)
Thanks Burton. I've seen a similar technique for succulent leaves, laying them out to callus in the open air before sticking them. I haven't seen anything yet to indicate it would be useful for roses, but it might be worth a try.
Hi Jason Thank you for all this great information. I just started propagating a cutting and was wondering at what temperature in the winter you would either bring the rooted cuttings indoors or apply frost cloth. I am in 8b US Pacific Northwest
greetings Jason... my question to you is this: Today, October 31st I took a nice cane from my climbing rose bush. I followed your steps to plant the clippings. Is this to late in the year to start the process? Beautiful videos, I only hope may clipping show as nicely as yours. This is my first time experimenting with rose clippings. Many thanks!
Yes, it's a little awkward for timing. A bit late to get going on semi-hardwood, and a little earlier than I'd start winter hardwood. There are no rules against trying though!
Jason, thank you so much for this video. I Have tried for the last 3 months for cutting, but not successful, the stems always turned black. I used a water bottle (upside down) as the dome, should I leave the cap off? or keep the cap on ? thank you. LOve your video, I learned a lot.
It is very instructive! Thanks a lot. I have two questions: 1. Maybe I missed that but can you comment on at which stage I can use compost as soil when repotting and 2. It seems like the first stage is early rooting but you talk about a bit of rooting but mostly callusing. Does it mean I can still start fertilizing a bit if I get only callusing in 3 to 5 weeks?
I might be missing your meaning, but I repot into potting soil (the British might call it compost) when the smaller pot or plug is fully rooted to the sides and bottom. I don't usually start feeding until I've confirmed roots (not just callus) - but I don't suppose a light liquid feed would hurt much.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm ok, thank you for the quick answer. It fully answers my questions. I want to root some cuttings of roses and rosemary and lavender. Rosemary is really successful. I put them in water and half of them shoot the roots within a week if they shoot at all. Remarkable is that they shoot mostly over the water layer. As they shoot the roots I put them in the potting soil. Seems working. Lavender dies off independently of the rooting method water or soil. At the moment I am trying it with a pure perilite. What certainly does work are the small cuttings you showed. And I wonder if the light plays a significant role in the rooting of the lavender. I used the potting soil disinfected with antifungal stuff for my rose cuttings. They did not die after 6 weeks. 4 weeks after I checked them. Some had callusing but no rooting at all.
It sounds like everything is going well in your propagation - callus is just the very earliest stage of rooting, so if you do achieve roots, but never notice any callus, it's probably just because your plants are quickly moving on to young roots.
Great video with very helpful info, thank you. If you were holding that rose plant in the final stage / pot, for planting in the fall, would you let it flower or keep pruning it back?
Thank you Jason for yet another excellent and informative video. I live in the same local climate as you and followed your tips last summer, successfully propagating two different rose cuttings from my mother’s garden. I took your advice and kept the roses in their one gallon and 2 gallon pots over this summer, so I could place them where I wanted colour in my garden. I would like to keep the roses in their pots for next year and my question to you is, should these roses remain outdoors under a protected deck, should I bring them in my unheated greenhouse, should I just leave them outside, or should I keep them in their pots but protect the rootball by burying them in the ground over the fall and winter? I would hate to lose them after a year of babying! I look forward to your response and thank you in advance.
Hi Michael. I recommend the unheated greenhouse. Based on my own experience, this has been a fairly reliable way of overwintering, with good shelter from cold wind and excess moisture. You would still need to check on them occasionally to see that they're not drying out, and if you can also make sure the greenhouse is vented on sunny days (for temp stability) that would help.
Hi Jason, I would like to transplant my successful rose cuttings that have been in pots this summer into the ground. When is the best time for me to do that. I live in Burnaby, so the same climate as you. I look forward to your guidance.
When they start growing from a cutting it's usually from the main single stem where new growth occurs. How do you encourage additional shoots from the base rather than the parent stem so that the single stem doesn't get too weighted from new growth. Trying to find out how to create a two-three stem shoots from the base to create the vase shape in your video?
Great video. I'm just south of you in Vancouver Washington. I'm assuming you're using shade cloth in your propagation greenhouse. If so what percentage of shade cloth are you using?
For hybrid teas in zone 5-6, would you prune back to near the soil level before moving to a protected (cool) spot for the winter? And then when should you pot up in spring? After last frost date?
Thanks - the kind of pruning I perform on younger plants is very restrained. As shown in the video, I have no hesitation in taking off extra foliage and thin/inward-facing stems, but no, I wouldn't say prune too close to the ground. The stems store some of the energy you rose will need for the next year's growth. Shelter over winter as best you can, and if you see damage at the end of winter, you can always prune it off.
I bought a bouquet of 12 red roses for 99 cents a few days ago, do you think I can propagate them? And is it ok to use a seed starting mix to propagate cuttings? Thank you for your advice.
Extremely useful video, thank you ! I just did some cuttings a week ago. I wish I would have watched this video earlier this summer because I am very late according to your schedule. I live in Quebec, Canada where the winters are long and cold. How do you recommend that I overwinter my cuttings ? I’ve heard about putting all the pots together on the side and covering them with a tarp. Should I leave them in the garage but it has basically no light ? Any advice specific to my climate (Canadian 5b) would be trememdously appreciated. Thank you !
I've often chosen an unheated garage to overwinter tender plants, but I also don't have a very long winter. Dormant plants need very little in the way of light, but even a compact fluorescent on a timer for a few hours a day may help. A little bit of gentle air movement is also a good idea.
Jason, Watched a few of your videos and very impressed! My husband and I are in the process of purchasing a land in Alabama, zone 7b. You mentioned rose de rescht as highly recommended for its fragrance. If we wish to farm it and make rose syrup, would you please give us your opinion if it’s a good choice? We would love to have your opinions on what we can grow for making syrup in tea and drinks. Thank you in advance!
I think it would be a fairly good choice, but it doesn't bloom all in one big flush. It might make sense (for batch processing) to look for something with a good fragrance and blooms more uniformly. Something like Abraham Darby comes to mind just off the cuff.
Jason, thank you so much for this very informative video. Just a question ... after being successful with rooting a rose cutting, how long after would it be before the newly established rose cutting presents with rose blooms / flowers? What time period would I be looking at say for a Floribunda or a hybrid tea? Thanks.
Hi Jun. They can bloom even the same season (on small new shoots, so nothing impressive). Usually it'll be about a year later (after up-potting) that you'll see decent flowering.
One question about hardening off: With my veg seedlings you have to introduce them to outside in short spurts (an hour or two) gradually increasing to all day over a couple of weeks. Is it the same with these cuttings?
It's not a true dormancy, so no, it's not completely necessary. I just find it a bit tricky keeping the conditions right for active growth indoors during the winter.
Thanks so much for all your videos, very helpful! I have a quick newbie question, new rose bush this year as of late April, good center growth, room left for ventilation. I have 2 big canes one on each side, only canes a good size (Thickness) for propagation should I try this year or wait a season? Thanks again!
Hi Phillip. I usually try to wait until the second season - leaving those stems in place now will make for stronger growth (and more cutting opportunities) next year.
Hey, some of my cuttings started to get hard brown vertically. I have two that’s half hard word brown vertically. What do you think causes this? Thanks for your videos. Some of my cuttings grew very nicely and I’m getting ready to pot them up. ❤
Professor Jason, I have another question for you please. As a good student of Fraser Valley Rose Farm (which I believe I've mentioned in other videos) I've watched almost all of your videos. I'm a little fuzzy on what you think is best practices for fertilizer timing on potted roses. In your "growing roses in containers" video, I believe you suggest every three weeks to use a liquid feed, or after a flush of blooms, with your potted roses. Here in this video you suggest--after they've established their roots--to use a full strength liquid feed twice a week. Is that twice/week only something you suggest for newly propagated roses? If I may be specific, I bought some bands from online sellers that are just barely at/past the stage of their roots hitting the sides and bottom of a quart-sized pot. Two I've already potted up into gallons pots, with the other two almost to that stage. For these four young roses, I've only been fertilizing once every other week or so but I'm noticing some yellowing in the leaves that I don't think is due to moisture stress. When would you suggest 2/week liquid feed, and at what point do you recommend backing it off to once every few weeks or flush cycle? Thanks again!
Hi David. In a pot they're relying on your liquid fertilizing completely (unless you've added a slow-release), so you can go with a couple of different approaches - a weak fertilizer solution at every watering, or a more "full strength" solution alternated with plain water. There's too much variability in fertilizers & feeding instructions to be more than fairly general I'm afraid, but I (like you) watch the plants themselves for paleness/yellowing as a sign they could use more nutrients, and vigorous new red shoots and deeper green leaves as a sign that I've got it just about right. You can definitely overdo it too, and there's a certain "tightness" to the plant and a deep green color that I see as the first signs that I've gone too far.
Hey Jason, what a timely video! I wanted to get your opinion on my arborvitae cuttings. I take hardwood cuttings in April, I don't use cell pots, instead I put something around 150 cuttings per 10g pot. Normally, I wait a full year to repot since I have to break all of them apart seeing as they're rooted together in one pot. I've been wondering if I could get away with repotting them this fall instead? Do you think the overwintering process does something to the roots which makes it easier/safer for me to pull them apart in spring, or do you think pulling them apart in the fall would be okay? My first frost is usually around mid October. I guess I'm technically just producing bare root plants, but it seems like I can root a lot more plants this way instead of cell trays. Do you think I could have a quicker result using cell trays vs bare root? Do you ever propagate plants like this? Hope this makes sense. I appreciate the video. Jah Bless!
Thanks. I think your method sounds really appealing. Many plants in a single container = less complexity. If you can break or wash them apart in the spring with a good success rate, I don't know that I would mess with it. I suppose it may be worthwhile to trial some fall potting to see if they get a head start vs. spring potting. I propagate in separate pots/cells for a few reasons: 1) I often propagate in smaller batches, 2) I offer my 9cm/quart pots for sale direct to customers via mail order, 3) the success rate for different cultivars (of roses) can vary quite a lot, so when I have losses, it's nice to be able to remove the failed pots and consolidate.
Question, once we move into the active growth stage and the risk of disease/insect pests rises... at what point could systemic pesticides be used (safely) to avoid the pest
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thank you for the reply!!! I've officially dipped my toe into propagation and have 3 cuttings (so far) in a medium Fingers crossed we see roots in the coming weeks 🙏🙏
What is your opinion on mycorrhiza for root cuttings? Will it help the cuttings to root faster? Do you use mycorrhiza in your nursery throughout the season?
Hi Jason, the rose cuttings which have about 1 or 1 and half inches long baby roots , should I start applying very light fish fertilizer? I also have Bonide Root & Grow liquid fertilizer. Should I start applying one of these fertilizers now or should wait until the roots get much bigger?
About a week ago, I tried propagating some cuttings from the green tips of my almost dead rose bush. They were tiny, only about 2-4 inches. I dipped them in rooting hormone then planted them into a cocopeat-based potting mix. I did not covered them with plastic bags since I live in the tropics and I assumed it is unnecessary. I checked them a few hours ago then I noticed that the stems are turning wrinkly. Assuming they dried up, I pulled them one by one and discovered there are actually a lot of callous tissue forming. No signs of rot, still very green. I returned them into their pots, watered, and covered them with plastic bags. Will they still recover and form roots? Or is it too late?
Only your cuttings can answer that question. I've seen small cuttings recover if they root quickly and have some energy left to develop shoots, but then again that's based on the health of the plant tissue to begin with. It sounds like these were taken from an unhealthy plant - but no harm in trying!
I usually stay in a 9cm pot until after winter. I'm not sure you'll have to wait that long in your mild climate though. As soon as you have strong rooting to the sides and bottom of the pot, it's a good time to up-pot.
We don't get 4 seasons like most of the countries, it's hot all through the year Nd few rain . The roses we buy from the shops which are imported it's tiny but has big blooms on it ..but as I said plants are tiny Nd has 4 stem on it . Its only green soft stem with big blooms . I keep buying Nd killing ☹️can you please kindly let me know how to treat with these plants . Thank you . Blessings from Maldives
Warm tropical locations can be difficult for many roses - if you want a good chance, it may be necessary to begin with roses more tolerant of your climate. The question is: is there any way of obtaining named hybrids, or are you stick with the plants you can purchase locally?
