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Hi all,
I recently cut back a couple of climbers (white mama cochet, not sure of the rest) and buried the branches at the bottom of a hugelkultur bed to fill space. A few months later I'm finding many healthy rose shoots coming out of the soil! I'm wondering if anyone has propagation techniques that involve completely burying a cutting? The closest thing I can find is the "layering" technique of stripping part of an intact branch and burying the end. It surprised me to see so many shoots as most of my (intentional) attempts previously have failed using the technique of burying one node of a semi hardwood cutting below soil and keeping the top leaf node damp. Perhaps burying the entire cutting helps maintain even moisture?
Thanks for any insight.
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I had to look up a hugelkultur bed and found it most interesting - I gather it is basically a compost heap using lots of rotted wood. So I wonder if it was the extremely fertile hugelkultur bed you buried them in, and not the technique of burying the cutting that gave you success. Were your previous attempts putting the cuttings in a hugelkultur bed, or other soil? I would think that you may have needed more than one node below and one above.
Does wood have the magic touch, or was it the acidity?
I recall an article by Ralph Morris in the Australian Rose Annual 1997, p103 wherein he related the success at last “one factor which years ago boosted the strike rate of Fortuniana cuttings was the use of fresh Jarrah (eucalyptus marginata) sawdust as a striking medium. The sawdust has a pH of 4.5 to 5.0).”
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