Using potatoes for rose cuttings is not a good method, and fellow gardeners need not try it.

Rose cuttings in potatoes? This question is quite interesting, and also utterly ridiculous! Seeing the question made me think my eyes were playing tricks on me. Indeed, some people really are curious about this, and I myself have never tried such an advanced trick, but in theory, as for the success rate of sticking rose cuttings into potatoes, I personally think it is almost zero. Here are my views below.

The prerequisite for rose cuttings to survive is to make the roses root as quickly as possible, and beyond that, the rose roots need a sufficient supply of nutrients. Judging by the properties of potatoes, they can supply enough nutrients, but the conditions for roses to root are almost entirely absent. Everyone should know that potatoes are very crisp and crunchy. After the rose is inserted into one, in such a closed environment, even cellular respiration is difficult, let alone rooting. The internal environment of a potato is still very different from that of soil.

Rose cuttings root very easily, yet I do not know what factor prompted you to come up with the idea of using potatoes for cuttings. To be honest, potatoes really are not a suitable environment for roses to grow in, so why use potatoes when such cheap soil is available and going unused?

You should know that people get tired of eating too many potatoes, and a rose cutting is so small; stuck into a potato, the rose really cannot handle such rich nourishment. I took a look online: not only are some people curious, some have even tried it, but in the end they all failed. That is not to say that rooting rose cuttings in potatoes is bound to fail, but even if there are successes, they are probably very few.

This also shows that the environment a potato provides for roses is not really suitable for them to sprout. It is not that I am unwilling to let everyone try innovative methods; innovation also needs a scientific basis, and combining theory with practice is the foundation of innovation. Without this prerequisite, blindly racking your brains can only be called wasted effort.

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