Propagate Cut Flowers
If You Love The Rose From Your Bouquet, Propagate It! Seriously, you can propagate or multiply many plants from cuttings. I’ve done this before with roses, hydrangeas, rosemary, and lavender. This does not take great skill! You can root these from a bouquet you’ve received or bought from the local florist or grocery!
A couple of years ago, I came across a video on how to root roses from cut flower arrangements. To see the video I watched, click here► video on how to propagate roses from flower arrangements. This lady actually rooted the roses in potting soil and used a rooting medium. She places the pots in plastic bags, which act as a greenhouse.
My youngest son gave me a bouquet of flowers for Mother’s Day a couple of years ago. A beautiful salmon-colored hydrangea graced the middle of the bouquet. As the flowers began to wilt, I removed the hydrangea, dipped the cut end in cinnamon, placed it in a jar of water on the window sill, and waited for it to root.
Needless to say, it did. Last year, it bloomed. It was a bit straggly but this year it is blooming on two long straggly branches, however, there is new leaf bud growth on those branches, too. The picture above was just taken yesterday and there is a lot of new growth as you can see in this picture! Propagating the hydrangea he gave me is a great reminder of my son’s thoughtfulness!
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How To Propagate Plant Stems
Take your cut rose or hydrangea stem when the bloom is starting to fade but the stem is still green, cut off the blossom and cut the stem at an angle below a leaf node. If it’s a long-stemmed rose, you can cut it in two or more places below leaf nodes, creating two or more potential plants.
Before placing the stems in a jar or glass of water, dip the cut ends in honey or ground cinnamon. (We are an Amazon affiliate and may receive a small percentage of any sales through this link at no cost to you. Thanks for supporting this website!) (If you have a rooting medium
, dip the stem ends in it. Since I did not have a rooting medium on hand, a little search indicated that honey or cinnamon can be used in place of the rooting medium.) I have tried both the honey and the ground cinnamon and they both seem to work well.
You can see the rose stems above have roots and are definitely ready to plant in pots. These were from a Valentine bouquet in February of this year.
Remember that before you see the roots, you will see callus on the cut ends. It just looks like bumpy little white things. When you see those, you know nature is doing her thing and soon you will have roots. Be sure to keep water in the jar. Remove any leaves that will be below the waterline.
Propagate Herbs
You can root herbs in this same way! Right now, I have rosemary and lavender rooting, too. You can see this little sprig of rosemary has plenty of roots on it and is ready to be planted. Hooking the leaves of the rosemary that curl slightly over the rim of the glass yogurt jar holds the little cut stem upright in the water.
Glass French Yogurt Jars
So, what type of jar do you use to root clippings? Why not French yogurt jars? Here’s another use for those Oui jars! (Click here for more yogurt jar ideas!) They look so adorable! A row of these is sitting on the window sill right now with rose, carnation, lavender, hydrangea, and rosemary clippings.
It doesn’t matter what the container looks like. You can use a drinking glass or glass jars. The clippings don’t care!
Picture above. September 12, 2019 Update on the first clipping to bloom.
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why do stems get black in water propagation of roses?
Hi, Rosanna. I am not an expert by any means but one possibility is a fungus. Making sure your cutting tools are clean and sanitizing them in water with a bit of bleach helps. By dipping the end of the stem in cinnamon, honey, or rooting medium, before putting it in the water, it should lessen the possibility. Changing the water every 3 – 5 days is probably a good idea, too. It doesn’t cost anything to try this method and I just get a thrill when I begin to see roots. Good luck with your cuttings.
Great idea I’ll have to try this
Thanks, Diana. Good luck with your cuttings@
Hi. New leaves have started to grow. But I don’t see any roots or any callus. Do u know the reason.
It takes a few weeks. If the leaves are still growing, it is still alive. You just need patience.
I just did mine can’t wait to see what happens!!
Good luck, Angie! Not all of the stems that I tried rooted, but a good many have. I’m in the process of experimenting with a couple of drops of root stimulator added to the water. I use the root stimulator on newly transplanted plants. The other day, I wondered if adding a minute amount would help speed up the process. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. We’ll see!🙂
I started the process of rooting a rose from a spring 3/24 I have leaves and thrones and white callus. How much longer should i wait before seeing roots? A lot of people are telling me to cut the new growth off the stem, dip it in honey, stick it in a potato and dirt. Do you think this is good advise?
Thank you!
You should begin to see new roots very soon. As soon as you see a few good roots, you can plant. Why would they think you should cut it off and start again? I haven’t tried the potato method. Why don’t you take another cutting from another rose and try that method, too? I should try it, too. There are different methods for rooting roses that can be used. There’s no one right way. Good luck, Vickie, and thanks for visiting!
My thoughts exactly and bu cutting it i would risk killing what ive got thus far, ill definitely try it the potato method with any other rose. The rose im doing right now is very special i got it at my infant neices funeral. Thank you for your advise!!
You’re so welcome, Vickie!
How many times need to change the water from the jar ? Does the stem of the rose needs to deep in the honey or cinnamon powder everytime needs to change the water?
Jocy, I changed the water every week or added a little water. After doing this a few times, I like the honey better. It seems the cinnamon falls off too easily. You only need to dip the bottom of the stem into the honey once. Good luck!
After reading your post , I have had the confidence to try this rooting method. Today they have gone into the incubator. Let’s see how many survives. I have also kept two cuttings from jade vine similar way – they didn’t come thru when tried in potting soil.
Good luck, Babija!
hello i have yellow rose bouquet that just started growing new growth and rose buds on its own should i cut the bottoms or see what happens
If you’re seeing new growth, that’s a good sign! Maybe you should hedge your bet and cut a couple and leave the rest to see which or if both start rooting. Good luck
Loved your article on roses. Would like more on planting please. Thank you
Thank you, Katie! I will work on that this spring.