Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose farm I've got a whole bunch of videos where I
show the initial steps of taking plants from cuttings and routing them however what I was
doing this video is go more for a larger context ask how do you get from a cutting like this
it's just going into a pot ready to root and how do you get from there to a fully rooted
plants in 2 gallon pot they'll be ready to sell ready to place out in your garden and
the answer to that in my case is it takes somewhere between 9 months and 12 months to
finish that process that's in my climate and for me to give you a time line like that by
necessity I'm going to be wrong I can be wrong for your local climate so I'll play some months
in the here and we're gonna use this template that I prepared for a video on the stages
of growing seedlings are gonna give you each of the stages of growing cuttings from the
early cutting stage the early reading stage are rooted plants in small pots over wintering
and then transplanting in the spring and for each of those stages I'm gonna give you some
the growing conditions of some of the things to look out for but as I say for that time
of year that you do these activities it's going to be very unusual if everybody out
there have the same timing as me in fact everybody's climate differs quite a lot I'm in a northern
temperate climate but I happen to have fairly mild and short winters so when I talk about
over wintering being in November through January step obviously for many people even in North
America that's gonna be a very different time line and when you switch to the other hemisphere
it's going to be almost reversed I should note also that when you talk about tropical
climates you can tackle some of these things at any time of year you just have to watch
for the particular challenges of your year and probably aim some of the propagation activities
towards the cooler season I would think in India you probably want to go for something
like November and December were you really have strong blooms on your roses and that
would be a good time to start I am again focusing this activity on roses that's the. Examples
I'm going to use but this would apply to a wide range of nursery particularly shrubs
but perennials as well that have a long cycle this will show you how to do that as well
so let's start with the step of taking cuttings the time of year I do this in my garden is
in June or July and the reason for that is that's when the plants are most ready for
it if you're looking for that stage where plants are putting on fresh new growth growing
strongly and you're looking for that stage of the wood where it's in semi hard what I've
shown this before my video the complete guide taking cuttings I will link that one above
so you can get more specifics in more close ups but the point is to do it when your plants
are ready and a good signal for that is when you see your roses blooming or when you see
the plants and fresh early growth where the wood feels kind of firm but also bendy all
right and for taking that cutting I'm just gonna do it a quick example here is that we're
looking for something that doesn't have too many leaves on it looking for something that
is a linked in that range about 3 or 4 inches has at least 3 notes on it I dip into rooting
hormone and I stick it into the tray now I prepare that that graphic that I had to put
up here but I should also mention to you if you wanna follow along if you want to have
that graphic for yourself you can go to the comments below this video or description this
video and I've linked through to my own personal website where I have that graphic where you
can download.for free that's no problem so this stage here this operatic in this cutting
it should stay in this stage for the next 3 to 5 weeks that's how long it takes for
it to initiate Callas sing at the base of that cutting and then to also begin to route
a little bit during that time you're gonna have it either in a small pot like this where
you can do your cuttings in a plug trays you're looking for something that's small and easy
to manage the water and also you can fit a lot of cuttings into the location where you'll
be doing this is where you have pest control of the growing conditions I do a lot of this
work in my greenhouse here where I have put. Detection of shade and I have the ability
to use time to missed like this to spray down the plants out front of the cuttings another
place you can go is it you can prepare a place indoors where I you have artificial light
or bottom heat or humidity dome that's where I do some of my cuttings as well on search
some footage of that as well but the point is to have this in an area where you can control
the environment now the next thing I want to say and I put this down on the shirt is
the level of Mr humidity and yes for this I am currently missing and this is mid summer
now I'm currently misting about 7 or 8 seconds every 15 minutes on my misting system that's
just based on what I've seen in the plants and I can adjust that humid that that misting
as I go forward also you could put this inside under the humidity down the point is you can't
let these dry in those early stages they have no roots they can't pull off water so if you
let them dry out they will die straight away so you have to have some control of that humidity
if you have the ability to keep in the bottom 3 heating mat that will also speed along the
routing out fertilizer non you're not looking to fertilize at this stage of pressure hoping
that the potting soil you're putting into as a propagation mix relatively sterile I
say relatively sterile that's not exactly sterile but it's appalling soil so you don't
looking for something has doesn't have soil properties and it's you're not going into
compost for us the word into garden soil and in terms of pruning no you you did your pruning
when you put into the pot you took off the extra foliage me the fit together nicely here
so they don't crowd each other and that's all the printing that you're expected to do
and at this point the only pest of concern the only disease of concern is wrought I could
try out of course that's an environmental thing but if it starts to rot that's because
you've put too much moisture into the soil or you put too much humidity around the plant
or because the soil that you used was it was not clean of soil borne pathogens are gonna
jump straight on to step 2 here and I get the advantage like you would in Martha Stewart's
cooking. Show where I can just pull something out of the oven this I I don't at this stage
I want to talk about in this case I'm talking about the early reading stage these cuttings
were taken in the range of 4 weeks ago and I've noticed as I pull up on the cuttings
that I get quite a bit of tug back that these are actually beginning to route this 1 here's
a hold on it I can pull it out but I can see that has heavy Callas sing along the base
of the cutting this 1 here if I try to pull it out probably gonna break off roofs so I
can feel that there's lots here there's starting to route heck why not I'm just gonna go ahead
and pull this 1 out so you can see but here we are this is a plant that's already routed
so once over to achieve this stage the stage of early routing I have a few other things
to look out now in my climate this is going to happen well 5 foot 45 weeks after taking
a cutting suffer took them in June it might happen in July 5 and July it might happen
in August and again they're still staying in that plug Drake tray or in small pox at
this stage the area is still the protected area you don't want to expose them all they
just have early young roots on them you want don't want to expose them to full sun full
wind the hazards of the card you want to still protect them at this point what you do want
to do is you want to remove them from that miss you don't want to be having them on on
constant missed all the time you do want to remove the bottom he doesn't need it anymore
the roots have initiated the watering you're looking to water them probably about once
a week lately at this stage they don't need they're not going through a ton of water as
you can see they've started to drop some of the leaves from the initial from the initial
cutting they've actually dropped from the season spring to grow some of their own new
leaves they aren't able disappointed go through water the same way as they would for a fully
established plants here only water once a week and your fertilizing but your fertilizing
at a reduced rate dilution probably half of the rate or a quarter of the rate that you
worked for a mature plant again at this point you're not really worried. Pruning you may
pick off some of the crispy brown leaves that have started so NASA after the cutting stage
but you're not pruning at this stage and your passive concerns still remain number one Ross
if you overwater these they're gonna rock so just try to pull back on the water will
be judicious about it let's assume that another 3 to 5 weeks have passed and your plants have
fully rooted and they've read it all the way to the bottom and sides of your pot and pull
one out here so you can see that this one has roots at the very bottom of the park has
roots all the way across the sides of the pot so this is a fully rooted plant now at
this stage you're growing conditions are obviously gonna change your treating these like a potted
rose now except to just in a small pot now the one big thing that can change you can
move them out of your protected area they don't need to live in your propagation area
they don't need to live on your back the day after by a window in your house you don't
need to protect them from the wind you can turn them off and put them out into their
direct growing conditions they can still be in a quart size point here when I see a quart
size pot for us metrical that might be a 9 centimeter potter 9 centimeter square park
the growing area like a C. should be just where you can grow your other plants could
be back in your backpack to be out in your garden I grow things on the floor of my green
house here they don't need the high humidity anymore they didn't in the last stage they
don't we don't need it now they don't need bottom seat anymore now watering on this because
they have routed all we decide to move on the part and they have lots more fully age
here they actually need to be checked on for watering twice a week probably sometimes when
I put them into my main greenhouse I give them a watering on a scheduled every second
day that you want to keep an eye on them twice a week is about the average that I would recommend
fertilizer you've moved up to full strength fertilizer now if you want to get this lush
growth you wanna get some branching that and you're looking for a full load of fertilizer
and you are pruning. You're pretty occasionally to encourage branching to pinch it off to
try to keep it from crowding out its neighbors so you're actually creating actively to try
to get the form and readiness to pot up to the next stage the insects and pests that
you're looking for at this stage you're not wrong what we're looking for before you start
to look for the active growth pastor looking for things like spider mites and aphids and
thrips you're also looking for foliar diseases those will start to come on as you move into
the plants that are in a less protected area so that's the that's the stage we're looking
at here now how long does it stay in this stage it stays in this state as long as you
need it to until you're ready to pot now in my climate you'll see on the chart here that
the next stages over wintering that's because this is taking me in the range of 5 weeks
of the first 15 weeks for the second 1 hi it's not happened in in June or July it might
be September and and my climate where these are in a pot like this I don't want to plant
them out in the garden and I don't want to pop them up at this stage I'm concerned about
the the winter that's coming my way and I want to over winter them in this stage that's
the easiest thing for me to do so I'm going to save them for the over wintering staff
but if you don't have a hard winter to contend with you might go ahead and do your your reporting
as soon as these have reached the stage where the reader to the sides and bottom of the
pot and then you see good branching on the plant seeds for in my climate is over wintering
and whatever stage your plants are in the music stops and you stop actively growing
the plant but you're still trying to protect the planet so if you have something like this
here we're it's going into winter and you see that the fully to soar into yellow up
and drop off in this case dropping off for different reasons you're gonna want to strip
off that dead foliage and the brown and black foliage and you also may do something like
this taking off the extra foliage and leaving it with lots and lots of air Sir. Regulation
around the plant so you're trying to protect it from the worst of the diseases that can
happen in this case as you'll note on the chart the pathogen that we're worried about
is portrayed as a servant a cool season over winter rocks that happens particularly on
shrubs particularly on things in the news family things like Salvia and lavender are
very susceptible to try this but roses can get it to so you're over winter rock is what
you're looking for so for the protection against that you're trying to give it lots of air
circulation around the plant lots of ways to get rid of that that moisture so it isn't
just sitting there transpiring and you try to take off any dead or diseased or damaged
leaves and branches so there's no place for the rock to get into the plant in my climb
at this stage is going to last for 3 months you can stay in that court sides fought for
this for this over winter stage and when I say that over the in the last previous pro
states that it was in sort of your growing area could be out in the garden on the back
deck in a once again you can move this to a shelter location doesn't have to be the
same as your propagation location but often times people take something like this and
then move it into an unheated garage or in unheated shed just over winter with a little
bit of shelter from that extra wind and rain that comes over the winter you're not looking
for high humidity you're definitely not looking for high humidity you're not looking for bottom
heat at this point although if you can offer some protection of heat that so okay you're
gonna check for watering probably once a week the thing is it's a fine balance of talk about
this in my video over wintering roses is that you're not looking for to be wet most of the
time but you certainly don't want to face any deeper colder winds without any moisture
in the pots you're trying to make sure that sees minimally water over the winter once
again you can remove any old overgrown stands yellow leaves and your your past of concern
is the price okay I dialed up the time machine one more time and now we're past the winter
and we're ready for that time of transplanting this point was only transplanted about a week
ago. So I feel confident that I can probably find the plug inside of it and here we are.
This is the plant that was transplanted it was ready for transplant once again in this
case it's only last 2 to 3 months before you're ready to sell it so you can transplant it
and then this week it'll be ready 23 months later after it's routed to the sides and bottom
of this pot lake this 1 house okay so in total time here if we went from June all the way
to the following March I guess we're looking at about 9 months or so of of growing time
it's already gone into the 6 from June to December and then January for remark about
9 months of growing time that's gone into this plant already now it can proceed very
very quickly you can start to route very quickly from this plug and it can proceed to reading
in this pot fairly quickly and once it does if you've got sufficient talk growth and here
routes to the sides and bottom of the pot you're ready to put this out in the garden
in terms of the conditions that I have on the chart like I say in my climate we do this
in March it's 2 to 3 months of grow times I did put into 1 gallon or in this case 2
gallon pot you're gonna put this in your growing area you can put the sum of your garden or
you can put this into your greenhouse any place where get sufficient condition but it's
fully hardened off at this point it's already been through winter it's fully hardened off
so you can go ahead and and grow up where you need to grow it you're not giving it any
Mister occupying a bottom heat you are watering and I would guess at this stage is once or
twice a week for freshly falling brand new potting here we're looking at about once a
week you're checking on it because it's sort of swimming and so well it doesn't it has
more more soil than it can go through the moisture out very quickly but as it grows
in answers to route to the sides and bottom you may be checking on it twice a week or
indeed even more at times as it feels not pot more vigorously your fertilizer giving
a full load of fertilizer at this point so full strength fertilizer and your pruning
well you're printing for shape so when this obviously doesn't need any pruning right now
you can leave it alone for the first little while but this here as it starts that does
tending a pot sometimes roses and other. Shrubs will do kind of a low hanging we speak growth
and in that case I'm gonna take off any kind of low growth in this case you know it's a
little out of balance so and take off that too so now we have 3 or 4 good stems that
are all going in sort of a ball shape and that's all you're pruning for is just for
shade now once again now that you're back in active growth you're going for the full
range of pass defense early on probably maybe even some leafhopper value looking for some
spider mites and thrips as we get later into the summer you put get all the full range
of foliar diseases blackspot powdery mildew especially if you don't water as regularly.
Lee will come on so you get the full range of pests their rights not covers it all the
way from when you took your first cutting there and 9 months later 12 months later you're
ready to either sell this plant or you're ready to plant it out in your garden as a
fully rooted plants I hope that answers some of the questions I've had over time about
what's the next thing I do or what do I do in this stage how do I treat it and if you
have any questions at all propagating or growing plants specially roses feel free to drop those
down in the comments below thanks for watching.