Propagating roses with a root grow tool

Propagation through cuttings is a rather successful way to get more of the same variety. If you want to even improve the success rate you can achieve this by using special root grow balls. What are root grow balls? Well, they are just a plastic tool that will ensure your cuttings will take root. You can easily buy them online at Amazon and they are really cheap and can be used many times.

How to use them? 

Well, it's fairly simple: Choose a rose stem that has bloomed but make sure it's at least as thick as a pencil ✏. Now you take a spot that's at least 20 cm or 8 inch from the top. Just above a pair of leaves you remove the green bark for approx 3 cm or 1 inch. So all the way around the stem..

If you want you can dip that area with root growing powder using a dry cotton swab (the ones you use for cleaning your ears. Dip it in the root powder and apply it onto the area without bark, don't overdo it.

Now you remove the two pairs of leaves above and underneath your treated area. Take your tool and open it. Take your stem and place it in one side of the mold. The area without the bark has to be in the center of the mold. Now fill it up with really damp potting soil (when you press the potting soil the water has to come out). Make sure that the mold is really full. Now you take the other part of the mold which you've already filled up with damp soil and place or click it on the other part of the mold. Now your cutting is entirely surrounded by potting soil and roots will start to grow in the mold. You must wait at least 20 days before you open the mold, I would wait 4 to 5 weeks. If roots have formed you prune the cutting away from the mother plant and you plant it in a pot.