Rose cuttings root easily but transplanting is hard - fail to understand these points and you will always fail

Many people say roses are not easy to root from cuttings, and even if new leaves appear on the cuttings, they still tend to dry out and develop black stems after transplanting. What exactly is the reason?

The young leaves growing from rose cuttings may wilt, and there are generally several possible reasons: 1. False life. 2. Too much light. 3. Potting soil too dry. 4. Sudden environmental change.

1. False life

This is the most common phenomenon with rose cuttings. Buds grow out, and at first they grow quickly for a few days and look lush, but after a week they wilt and dry up. This is because the buds growing from the rose are not growing by absorbing nutrients and water from the soil through roots, but by relying on the nutrients and water stored in the cutting itself. When its own water and nutrients are used up, there is not enough water and nutrients to support new bud growth, so the new buds wilt and dry up. After that, the cutting begins to turn black, and the cutting fails.

2. Too much light

Newly rooted roses are best kept in diffused light or a cool, shaded place. At this stage, the fine roots are not yet well developed and can only absorb water through the few young roots they have. Strong direct sunlight makes the new buds lose water rapidly, and they cannot replenish water in time, so they naturally wilt and dry up. You should wait until the cutting has grown for another month, when the fine roots are already numerous enough, and after transplanting let it receive light gradually. Do not put it directly under strong light all at once. If the buds are sun-wilted, move it to a cool, shaded place to recover. As long as the roots are fine, new buds will soon grow again.

3. Potting soil too dry

When rooting rose cuttings, the potting soil should be kept moist. When the potting soil is too dry, the new roots of the cutting cannot absorb water in time, causing the new buds to lack water, and they will also wilt and dry up. You can check whether the potting soil is short of water.

4. Environmental change

There is another situation in which the new buds of rose cuttings wilt: a sudden change in the growing environment, such as originally being covered with plastic film and then suddenly having the plastic film removed, causing humidity to become too low. Or a cold wave arrives and no attention is paid to keeping it warm, so the new buds freeze. It may also be bad weather, such as strong wind, that dries out the new buds. New buds are quite tender, so pay attention to care in normal times, otherwise they wilt very easily.

Actually, when we take cuttings, we can use the wall-hitting 2.0 cutting method, which is the vermiculite cutting method. Insert the rose directly into a container filled with vermiculite, place a tray underneath, and keep about 1 cm of water in it at all times. Just place it in a semi-shaded environment to receive light, and there is no need to mist the leaves. In this way, after about a month, the root system is quite robust, and transplanting is very easy to survive.

Have you ever encountered these problems when taking rose cuttings?