How to plant rose from bouquet

How to plant rose from bouquet

Many amateur flower growers probably came up against such situation when the roses received by them in bouquet were so delightful that caused desire to put same at themselves in garden. Whether it is possible to plant rose from bouquet?

Yes, it is unconditional. With rare exception any purchased rose can be "tamed" and caught to itself in flower bed. For a start it is necessary to pay attention to stalk of rose which we will replace. The stalk should not be the quite strongly sclerotic, that is solid substance, similar to wood, should not make its most part. Flexible and green stalks will not approach though you should not take and absolutely steadfast – from them the rose will be even more difficult to be couched.

Let's cut off part of stalk so that on it there were two or three kidneys, it is desirable with leaves. It is necessary to cut off approximately one centimeter above the upper kidney and so below lower. The upper part of stalk should be cut off strictly horizontally and to seal wax or paraffin. The lower part is cut off on sharp angle, approximately as usually cut off legs of flowers before putting in vase.

The leaves leaving kidneys should be cut off half to reduce evaporation of moisture through them. Now it is necessary to plant rose from bouquet in soil. Now we will be engaged in change of our turned-out shank. Let's prepare for this purpose to bank (or other convenient tank) with bank sand. If you do not have that, then it is possible to take any other, only carefully to wash out it and to add there the soil. As a last resort it is possible to manage also plain water. It is desirable to process sharply cut off end of shank korneobrazovaniye stimulator which is easy for buying in any shop for flower growers then it falls to soil or water. It is necessary to submerge on all depth of cut, so that the lower kidney has appeared under water (or in soil). From above our shank should be covered with can or plastic bottle so that it was possible to carry out soil watering then it is necessary only to wait. The soil at cultivation of shank should not be strongly damp, it is better to try to obtain condition of light moisture content. When shanks begin to grow, they can already be replaced gradually to the open ground.  

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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