seven sisters rose bush

[hayseed882]

my mother in law gave me a branch from a seven sister rose plant and told me that I can stick the branch in the ground and keep it good and watered and it will grow .Has any one heard of this ?? If not , is there a way to transplant this branch?? Thanks

[Dixie]

That's the way my daddy grew the roses on the propety I live on now. He cut them from a rosebush my grandma planted some 50 years before and they took root and did quite well.

[Ann Mary]

To give it an added element of success you would want to give the end a fresh cut right below where a leaf comes out of the stem(after taking of the lower 2 sections of leaf) and then dip a whole section-up to the next leaf- into rooting hormone powder before putting it into the soil in the pot and then put the pot into the ground. And you do have to keep it MOIST. Even one time of drying out before the roots can handle it will kill it. I plant my starts on the N side of the house so it is much easier for them to start. then, next late spring...if it made it...you can pull up the pot that was sunk into the ground and replant it in the sun. I like to also put a glass jar over the start or make a clearbaggie hothouse over it help up with wires or twigs...helps keep in the moisture.--but don't let the leaves tough the glass or baggie. If it is a large start I'd try cutting it into 3-4 pieces so you'd have a better chance of getting one to 'strike'. Hope one or two "works" for you!