PROPAGATION
Karen Baldwin
hey, CHERYL!
now that i have successfully propagated some nice little
rosies using your method, and have begun potting them,
my questions turn to getting them through the winter.
should i:
a) keep them indoors through the winter, in the same
window exposure where i propagated them in their baggies?
b) keep them indoors through the winter, but switch
them to a spot under some gro-lights? (and if so,
for how much light exposure per day?)
c) set the pots outside and let them go dormant along
with the rest of my established roses (i doubt this
is the right answer ...)
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: hey, CHERYL!
hey KAREN! you can still find me at che...@redwood.stortek.com
: now that i have successfully propagated some nice little
: rosies using your method, and have begun potting them,
: my questions turn to getting them through the winter.
: should i:
: a) keep them indoors through the winter, in the same
: window exposure where i propagated them in their baggies?
Actually, after they have spent a few days in their pots,
I put them in as bright a window as I can. Open the sheers.
: b) keep them indoors through the winter, but switch
: them to a spot under some gro-lights? (and if so,
: for how much light exposure per day?)
My gro-lights don't put out nearly enough light for roses.
It can prbably be done. I save my gro-lights for my
african violets, and put the roses in my southern exposure
windows.
: c) set the pots outside and let them go dormant along
: with the rest of my established roses (i doubt this
: is the right answer ...)
In the past, when I planted them outside the same summer I rooted them,
I lost a lot to winter kill.
Especially from those nasty springs that get warm enough to
cause the roses to break dormancy and then do a hard freeze.
Even with a heavy mulch, the new little roses didn't always have
enough roots to carry them through that. Well, the chinooks
(intense, warm winds) did their damage too.
When I kept the rooted cuttings inside for their first winter,
and then plantd them in the spring, they were good and established
by the fall.
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: : klba...@ingr.com :: "Anyone who gets promoted will go wrong." :
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Karen Baldwin
> Karen Baldwin wrote:
>
> : hey, CHERYL!
>
> hey KAREN! you can still find me at che...@redwood.stortek.com
yeah, but i figured a bunch of people would be interested
in your Extremely Wise Answers. :)
so, you say that you put the newly-potted roses in bright
sunlight (opening my sheers) after a few days ... i take
it that the danger of sun-scorch that they face while in
their baggies doesn't apply after they're removed because
the "hot-house" effect isn't multiplied any more. right?
(notice that i am prevaricating ... now that they're growing
nicely in their pots, i hesitate to risk them unless i'm
absolutely certain the sun won't hurt 'em!)
131A40000-NetterCJ(DR9622)42
: so, you say that you put the newly-potted roses in bright
: sunlight (opening my sheers) after a few days ... i take
: it that the danger of sun-scorch that they face while in
: their baggies doesn't apply after they're removed because
: the "hot-house" effect isn't multiplied any more. right?
: (notice that i am prevaricating ... now that they're growing
: nicely in their pots, i hesitate to risk them unless i'm
: absolutely certain the sun won't hurt 'em!)
I keep newly potted roses out of direct sun for a few days,
to give their disturbed roots a chance to heal. Then I move
them to direct sun. I wouldn't put them out in Denver's
drying winds for a while yet though.
I've really got to get going and finish potting all mine up,
too many minis flowering in their baggies!