New rose plants

New rose plants

Three stem cuttings of rose plants were brought from a relative’s house. They were the wild variety of rose because I was told that the ones generated by budding are difficult to propagate from stem cuttings.

It was a long wait of three weeks for the first tiny shoot to appear on one plant. Of course, the camera autofocus is on the pot rather than the tiny shoot, in spite of repeated attempts to capture a better picture.

This is one of the other stem cuttings, which appears to have a tiny shoot appearing. But again, it is not very clear.

The third stem cutting here is yet to develop any fresh shoot. When the stem cuttings were brought, there was a doubt on how to plant them, which side up? Observing the pattern of the thorns in the only cutting with leaves, it was found that the thorns point downwards. So, it gave a clue to the base part of the stem cutting.

Now the first one has developed several leaves. Though mature leaves have green colour, new immature leaves have nice pink-red colour.

The new rose plant has a splendid appearance with the backdrop of shiny white stones in the freshly painted garden pot. They say that the wild variety of roses grow better and can be used later to graft other exotic varieties on to them.