Propagate Roses from a Bouquet 

A foreseeable issue with rooting imported florist roses to plant in cold zones is that their root systems may have trouble suviving frozen soils overwinter - soils which turn into a block of ice in my area because of freezing rain. A rose like that would be better off grafted onto multiflora undertstock or Dr. Huey, like any hybrid tea on the market. For cold climates, it's better to seek out a rose grower with bud-grafting services for the florist types, otherwise; root the plant at your own risk. Even with grafted roses, there are no guarantees. Much also depends on the skill of the gardener.

Thanks, Jason. 8 out of 8, wow. I'm tempted.

Jason, one of the many things I love about your channel is that, even though you have almost a quarter of a miliion followers, you always seem to find the time to answer viewers questions and interact with them, unlike so many RU-vidrs who, once they get a few thousand followers no longer bother connecting with their public, which is sad. Great video, as always.

My revelation: the trick is to not let the stem tops get warmer than the bottoms. I have 2 spots in my garden where I root stems. Both are moist with indirect or filtered with a low canopy of surrounding plants. I didn't use rooting hormone. After several years of many failures, I currently have 20 new roses rooted after figuring out the value of stem temperature. Bonus, the rootings have all survived zone 4 winter. Worked for multiplying my azaleas and hydrangea as well. Great alternative if you don't have a greenhouse or your greenhouse is already full 😂 Thanks for all the tips, every bit helps! 😃

You bring beauty into the world.

What a fun idea! I'm def going to try with a few of the stems I received yesterday!!!!

You so good at this thing...everytime its a win

A friend of mine got a dozen beautiful burgundy roses for Mother's Day. She placed them in a vase full of water and they have all thrown out roots with the flowers still attached! This girl has the greenest thumb I have ever seen.

You are a wizard! 🧙

Thank you!!! This has been my winter project.. trial and error. I appreciate your videos very much ❤

I received a multicoloured bouquet of roses mid October last year. The weather is cold and damp here in winter, where I live in North West England, U.K. I noticed that the stems had started to grow tiny new leaf buds, so rather than throw them away when the blooms had finished, I grabbed some scissors and quickly cut lots of pieces from the stems (not very long pieces actually). I have a little cold frame in the garden outside my kitchen and I pushed the cuttings in a few pots that were already in there with some other cuttings. I didn’t even use rooting powder. I left them in the cold frame over winter. It’s not heated. All I did was line the thin Perspex walls with some horticultural fleece, as I was already trying to overwinter some Pelargoniums. I always check the cold frame regularly and I could see some of the rose cuttings were doing well and still growing new leafy shoots despite it being cold. So after leaving them alone for 6 months, I now have 6 propagated baby rose plants that I recently put outside of the cold frame and they’re still doing well. The weather here is still cold and wet as we haven’t yet had any good spring weather. The only mistake I made was not labelling what colour the cuttings were because I didn’t expect any of them to take! So I’ll have to wait and see when they produce some buds. This lucky success is a big contrast to last spring, when I’d bought a Sexy Rexy rose plant for my garden and a small stem snapped off. I thought I’d try to propagate that, so I put it in a little plant pot in my kitchen after dipping the end in rooting powder and kept it under half an empty plastic soda bottle so that the humidity was correct, altering the ventilation to the perfect level regularly. It took many weeks to root well enough until I could remove the half bottle propagator. I really had to baby that cutting because at first it looked like it was dying. I was finally able to put the Sexy Rexy rose cutting outside, in its pot, late Summer last year. I don’t see how the bouquet cuttings rooted so quickly and survived in a cold frame outdoors without any fuss at all. I’m also wondering what the mature size of the bouquet rose plants will be, as I have no idea what type of rose they are. I really wish I knew, so that I can plan where I want to plant them in my garden, based on their final height.

Plants are amazing, particularly roses. I’m planning on trying this.

Excellent tutorial! I'm always on the hunt for new at-home outdoor plant projects and will definitely give this a try. Thanks for sharing!

Thank You So Much Jason. I am grateful for your advice n showing how to 👍👍

Hello. Roses are expensive so I think it’s worth to try and then have a garden full of roses.Thank you for sharing🌷

Amazing info. Thank you Jason. Also love your humidity dome 🥰

Love your content! Thanks so much for all the great info.

this is amazing! cant wait to try it out.

excellent video like allways...thank you for teaching us new tricks..

Awesome! Thanks Jason!

Thank you for the info! You're a wealth of knowledge.

You're a great teacher tysm. and wow only two months ago! Feel like I'm so early!

Great job on this project

Made it to Garden Answer today !! Congratulations!!

Thank you

Luv it. Thank you for sharing.

Amazing as always ❤️

Thank you very much for sharing ✂️🥀🌱🌹👍

Thank You for sharing, I did not know this...😮❤🌹

a forever useful channel.

Pretty amazing. Says a lot that you could pull this off. I would have thought treatment and chemicals used on most florist flowers would have made them a no go. On the other hand, they are successful at keeping them fresh. Thank you for your superb content and willingness to help us grow more beautiful plants.

Thank you.

So helpful. Thank you. 😊

I tried doing that last year but l didn’t do it exactly the way you did so l am excited to try again! Cheers from Ottawa.

Definitely gonna try this with some Ive seen for sale that are cup shaped with green petals on the outside, and a light pink center.

I see a lot of videos like this and thank you for the detail, but all fall short of next steps, seasons, locations etc. for becoming a mature plant - cutting all the way to mature flowering would be so, so helpful - thank you again for sharing - I’m a propagation novice, but finding it a necessary skill as the huge deer herds are decimating everything on our 2.3 acres, the herds are out of control as there are few natural predators which is upsetting the balance needed in natural habitats, with the exception of daffodils.

great vid! thank you!

My boyfriend bought me a lovely bouquet of 24 red roses for valentines day and they immediately started to die the day after I recieved them so I wanted to try to save as many as possible because he spent so much money on them and it was our first valentines day together so they meant so much to me. so far im starting to see buds grow on a couple of the stems and the start of rooting on at least one of them. I am propogating 12 out of the 24 in two small storage tubs with 2 ltr bottles covering them in a temperature controlled room with plenty of indirect sunlight. I hope at least some of them take.

Wow, wait so you got 100% success rate?! That's awesome. Great video!

My grandma used to do this, except she would wash the inside of a jar with mud to put over the rose cuttings and she stuck the cuttings in the flower bed on the north side of the house. I have tried to copy her but with no success. She could work magic with what she could get to grow. Of course, what she did and what I remember as a kid are going to be different. I must have missed some key elements.

I'm just imagining the horror on your partner's face when they buy you a beautiful, expensive bunch of roses and you immediately hack the flowers off and stuff the stems in dirt.

TY!

This comment is not related to this video, just picked the freshest video to connect with you Mr. Roses guy ;) As I mentioned before this channel is one of the best if not the best in terms of TONS of free and extremely useful info. I watched so many of your videos, some a few times and have a goal to watch ALL of them asap. I just started gardening around 2 years ago with many many many mistakes (many done purposely with intention to learn). And I was so successful in such a short period of time that everything I plant grows like weed. As I was told that’s because I enjoy the process and put my heart into it. So the question is this, if it wasn’t answered yet: Starting a tiny backyard nursery on a 30ftx30ft backyard, what do you recommend to start with (as you said before: check the water with a tip of your finger). There’s so much I want to do, there’s so many possibilities. Annuals, perennials, flowers, trees, bushes, vegetables etc etc. I want to start with a small stock of basic veggie seedlings like tomato, cucumber, eggplant, squash etc and then continue with perennials like roses, grapes, flowers like lilacs etc. stuff that I enjoy and would want to have in my own garden. For me, only problem is SPACE SPACE SPACE. So what’s your advice. What to start with in a very limited space? PS I truly have a dream of quitting my good union job in NYC and move as far away from this chaotic city as possible to follow my farming/nursery dream on a few hundred acres of land. When I have money to do so ;)

I see you were credited with a photo on Garden Answer this morning 👍.

Awesome video! And that idea of the inverted tupperware, wow! Im going to adapt it for sure! Now can we root rose stems from the garden or bouquet in water? If yes, how long will it take to root?

My mom once needed the the rose buds from a bouquet. So I ripped off bottom leafs changed the water and stuck them in the full direct sun. 99% of them developed beautiful calluses over a period of a few months.

Tq for the info

Do u have any updates or will u show when the leaves start to grow? I would LOVE to see that!

I received a few bouquets after graduating recently. Can't wait to try this ❤️

Interesting

Great video! I am wondering if I can use perlite only to propagate the cuttings ? Or vermiculite only ? Which one is better?

I tried this before but the rose was not viable. Will try again though . Thanks for tips!💐

Very impressive, given what you started with! Are vining roses done the same way? I have a rose that my father planted sometime before he passed in 1971, and would like to give a clone to my sister.

I have followed this method and have a few successful rootings! I am unsure of the next step as far as whether to move them outside or keep them inside. I plan to keep them in pots for a while but not sure when it would be safe to put them outside and what light I should put them in. I would appreciate the information on “Now what?”

Great. Video Was wondering If. You scraped a 1/2 inch of the stem Would it give you a bigger root face?

Help! I have a single cut rose I was given on my birthday! One of the nodes is growing new growth leaves already. How far below that should I cut? If I cut too short it’ll be deep in the dirt right? Should it be exposed?

Such helpful information. I am excited at the possibility. Would this same process work with other varieties of flowers? I received two beautiful bouquets. One had white/cream colored roses with hydrangeas and tiger lilies. They are absolutely beautiful. Would you recommend this process right away? As you mentioned how these are grown in bulk in South America ? I don’t want to go shopping off the top of those beautiful roses just yet after having received them yesterday. 😊 I live in Central Alabama, where the weather usually gets quite warm and humid. Today being an exception where it’s in the 60s and raining. But we are expecting mid 80s by mid week with Sunshine. Thank you for your time and valued advice.

Lol, I’m a member of a Facebook propagation group and there are so many that get excited to buy bouquets to hack up

Thank you for another great lesson. Do you know which rose variety are these cutting roses sold in stores? Thanks

Ok... Watched both recent Propagation videos. I just clipped a stem, (all my Roses are budding..) trimmed, dipped, and planted 6 cuttings from that Stem. A thought occurred, can I also mix a little Hormone in the Soil? I couldn't find anything in a brief search.. Thanks Steve

I’ve grown 5 ‘baby roses’ from seeds I propagated from a rosehip. They are growing well, but only 2 have ‘branched out’ the others are getting very tall but only single stem. What would you recommend I do?

I'd like to see how many of these particular cuttings develop roots.

I was given a bouquet and some already gave little nubs growing, will those survive even it still doesn’t have a root?

Just wondering how long does it take for it to produce flowers from that stage

New to the hobby, please would you be able to tell me which root hormone powder you use or it's American equivalent

I’ve actually , just once, had roses start rooting in the vase. I was completely perplexed and not sure how that was possible. I tried to plant it in my garden but it didn’t make it. Several of the cut roses had started growing roots though. So bizarre!

If v take cuttings in early spring and try to root them from my own garden, cud that work? I did plant some before winter, looks like some of these are showing signs of growth, but not sure if they started rooting as well…will wait and see…

Thank you! Would you take a similar approach to rooting rosemary and lavender from live plants in the garden?

Awe, I didn't get any roses for Valentine's or else they would all be chopped up right now! Shoot, maybe that's why I didnt! hahaha

Thanks for this video. I have terrible luck propagating from cuttings. I use coco peat, IBA 0.6% rooting hormone, and a humidity dome. After a couple of weeks of root formation the roots turn black and the root-up blackening happens - I'm guessing this is because coco peat holds up too much moisture. Any suggestions on what I could improve would be highly appreciated.

The stem looks dark is that still healthy to propagate? Thank you.

Do you add any other medium to coco coir eg perlite, peat etc?

Hi Jason, what are the odds that a random supermarket bouquet would be hardy to, say, Canadian Zone 5? Is that kind of hardiness unlikely for mass-market imported roses? (There are plenty of nice roses that thrive in my area but I don't know if they represent only a small, hardy subset of the broader rose world.) Thank you for the video.

Hi Jason, I am not having success with my stimroot #2 could it be too old or a dud batch or can I use # 3 for roses rodos etc. And can we cut the bud off or notch it above to force growth. I just discovered Clone X mist for propagation have you looked at that?

Grate video, I was going to do what you did. With the roses, I got my wife for Valentines Day. If I get them to grow, will they bloom this year or next year. Thanks Steve

I have one propagation that sucessfully developed some roots. It's currently in a perlite/soil mix. Should I repot in soil with less perlite or keep it there and wait for it to grow more roots?

Hi Jason. Why do you cut right below a node?

I have a bouquet from Mother's Day that is actually rooting on the vase, and growing new leaves, what would be the best course of action?

Hi Jason… thank you for these vids I’ve had some success with you’re methods but was wondering if putting the pots on a heat mat would increase the success and also make em grow quicker? Thanks again form Surrey uk 🤓

What are the leaves for?

Does rooting hormone go bad? I have some in my garage that is several years old. Should I buy fresh? How does forgoing rooting hormone affect the success rate? I put some cuttings in the ground with my Feb pruning but I didn't know about any of your tips, and didn't use my rooting hormone (I forgot it was there). Of the 10 or so, I think 3 might be successful.

Will these grow a rose bush?

What are the dimensions of the pots you put the cuttings into?

Can the rooting hormone be found in Home Depot? I want to keep fulsome of the flowers given to me from my mothers home going service this past weekend

Was the soil wet when you planted? Did you water the soil at any stage of the process? Thank you!

I wonder if these store bought roses would survive our Canadian winter.

Wait. The cut flower bouquet is suitable for home planting? I heard about they are for florists

Can you leave them in the pot for a year before planting? Thank you for the video!

Hi Jason. Thank you once again. Just wondering, will the rose come back the same?

At what point can you plant them outside in your garden and are most roses perennial? And last question will they flower the first year?( is it considered a mature plant or do you have to wait several years? Thank you so much, I’m going to try this for fun.

Is it beneficial to keep them indoors for better temperature even of you have low light levels? Can you put them indoors for callus formation and then take then outside for better light conditions?

Can I use miracle grow potting soil to root my rose cuttings

So I left my neglected Valentine rose in water and tonight I went to throw it out I realized there's new leaves and actually a flower bud. Should I take that out of the water and do the root hormone in put it in soil?

hi! how do i care for them after propagating?

Can you use perlite instead of soil when rooting? And if so, when should they migrate to soil?

Do you wet your soul prior to inserting the cuttings? Or is it dry soil? If it’s dry soil do you just mist the top of the soil after inserting the cuttings?

How much light those cutting need during rooting? Also... Is it true that roses of different colours has different difficulty of rooting (with red being the easiest to root and white is the hardest)?

Did you water the cuttings at all or just mist them?

Doesn't pushing in the stem actually remove the rooting powder, I always thought one used something like a pencil as a dibber and firmed the soil lightly to hold it. But looking at your good results maybe not!

I am finding Hormodin 3 (0.8% IBA) more readily than Hormodin 2 (0.3% IBA). Would this work just as well?