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Apr 14, 2016 1:30 PM CST
Name: Sharlene Sutter
St. Gallen - Switzerland (Zone 6a)
Garden Ideas: Level 1
If you are referring to Black Baccara, yes and it is my DH's favourite rose
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About the way I root my cuttings:
Rooting florist roses is a winter pastime for me. It can be very costly because named roses on offer in the florists are around US5.00 a piece. This last winter I just got a NOID bunch of 10 from the Aldi to play around with, also US5.00.
I have a setup down in the cellar. I take very short cuttings 3 or 4 bud eyes and I cut just below an eye. I use small cups initially filled with a coir/perlite mix and put them in a propagator with high humidity to root. When I see roots I transplant to a bigger cup. When they get too big for the propagator, I slowly acclimatize them but still keep adding water to the bottom of the propagator.

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Here are pics of the original Espérance and Flash Dance which I stuck in December 2014 and the first blooms on the cuttings end of March 2015
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And a bouquet of Espérance and another florist rose which I grafted onto rootstock in 2013.
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As I said, rooting florist roses is rather expensive - I think budding is the way to go. First, instead of just one or two good cuttings you will probably have about four or five good bud eyes to graft and the success rate is near to 100% whereas with rooting I get about 30%.

Anyway that, in a nutshell, is how I do it.
Co-founder of www.dasirisfeld.ch in Oetlishausen, Switzerland

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