How to save purchased rose seedlings before planting. How to keep roses fresh, bought in a box Preserving rose seedlings before planting

You have purchased rose seedlings, but do not know how to preserve them before planting. We will tell you about this. It's in full swing outside early spring, and it’s too early to plant roses in open ground. In March, gardeners try to buy seedlings, because by the beginning of the planting season interesting varieties will be disassembled, and the remaining ones are not of very good quality.

There are several ways to preserve rose seedlings, but the main requirement is low temperature, lack of nutrition and absolute rest. The choice of storage method depends on planting material, on the conditions in which the seedlings will be stored.

Prikop method

Experienced flower growers recommend the digging method. On the site, you need to choose a place where the snow does not melt longer. Dig a hole in the snow down to the ground. You can hollow out a small hole in the ground or prepare one in advance. Rose seedlings are placed in the hole in an inclined position; the packaging does not need to be removed. Rose seedlings are covered with purchased soil and spunbond on top. Then cover everything with snow. In this state, rose seedlings are well preserved until spring and wake up along with the rest of the plants that overwinter in the ground. Rose seedlings are planted in a flower bed after the snow has thawed and the ground has warmed up. This method can be used for seedlings with awakened buds, but no more than 1 cm. This method of digging is considered the most effective.

Storing roses in the refrigerator

Before placing rose seedlings for storage in the refrigerator, you need to check the earthen lump. A very wet lump needs to be dried, otherwise the roots will rot. The packaging material must be unrolled and left open for a short time or the roots must be sprinkled with peat. The second extreme is dry soil and overdried rose seedlings. The first sign of overdrying is the wrinkled bark of the shoots. The earthen ball should be slightly moistened and the branches should be sprinkled with water.

The seedlings are wrapped in newspapers, the top layer of the newspaper is moistened with water, and placed in a plastic bag. The package is placed in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf. The best temperature for seedlings is zero. At positive temperatures, buds begin to develop. You should also sometimes look through rose seedlings and observe the moisture in the soil. If possible, you can store roses in the basement, in a cold garage or on the balcony. The main thing is that there is darkness and a certain temperature.

Overexposure of rose seedlings in pots indoors

This method is recommended for use only as a last resort. If the purchased seedlings begin to grow, shoots develop and buds hatch, the plant must be planted in a container and try to preserve it until planted in open ground. This will not be easy to do, and the rose will not take root well. But for rose connoisseurs, nothing is impossible. The planted rose seedling must be carefully monitored.

Firstly, you need to try to protect the seedling from sunlight in order to inhibit the growth of shoots until it gets stronger root system. Often, planted seedlings wither, turn black, and then die. The reason is that there is no developed root system. The rose seedling begins to grow for some time due to internal nutrients. When they end, the rose dies.

Rose seedlings in room conditions They also suffer from dry air. The size of the container should be such that it can accommodate the root system without damaging the roots. Mandatory, drainage holes are required. Five-liter plastic bottles are suitable. The seedlings are inspected and damaged shoots are removed. If the rose seedling is dried out, it needs to be soaked in a humate solution. The soil must be nutritious. When planting, the graft is not deepened.

The top of the rose seedlings is covered in a plastic bag. There is no need to keep them in a dry and hot place. It is best for the temperature to be 10°C. These seedlings can be transplanted outside after the last frost. At first, you need to cover them from the bright sun. When replanting, you need to be careful with the roots, transferring them along with a lump of earth. This way the roots are less damaged and can easily tolerate replanting.

We hope that these tips will help you, and armed with knowledge, you will gain your experience, and the roses that survive will delight you with bright and lush blooms.

What to do if the buds, or even shoots, on recently purchased rose seedlings begin to grow, but it is too early to plant plants in open ground? Where to store them, what conditions to observe, what to pay special attention to...
The author is the famous rose connoisseur Julia TADEUSZ.

Of course, the most correct thing would be not to buy seedlings with sprouted buds. Well, if that’s what happened...

Ways to preserve seedlings a lot (planting in containers is not the best way!). Probably, like many, I experimented with different ways preserving seedlings and now I prefer exclusively prikop. To do this, I choose a place where the snow melts for the longest time in the spring. I dig a hole in the snow. I remove the snow almost to the ground, as far as possible, lay the seedlings in an inclined state, and do not free them from the packaging material. I cover the top of the seedlings with purchased soil, which I bring with me, and cover them with a piece of spunbond. Then I cover it with snow again. in this state they will be perfectly preserved until spring and wake up gradually, along with their brothers wintering in open ground. And as soon as the ground becomes suitable for planting, they can immediately be planted in a flower garden. Experience shows that even seedlings with awakened buds can be buried, but, of course, no more than 1 cm.

If the buds have sprouted by 1-1.5 cm and even 2 cm, they can be kept in the refrigerator (after all, it’s already mid-March!). Before storing the seedling in the refrigerator, I check the condition of the earthen ball: if it is too wet, and this also happens, it should be dried a little (in a very wet substrate the roots can rot). To do this, you need to carefully unwrap the packaging material and hold the lump open for a while, or immediately sprinkle the roots with fresh peat. If the soil is too dry and the seedlings show signs of drying out (one of the signs is wrinkled bark on the shoots), then the earthen ball should be carefully watered and the branches should be sprinkled with water. Then we wrap the seedlings in several layers of newspaper (we slightly moisten the top layer). We wrap it all in a plastic bag and place it on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Due to the strong operation of the fan in the refrigerator, the shoots of the rose can dry out, so you need to periodically check the condition of the seedling, monitor the moisture content of the substrate so that it does not dry out, but you should NOT water it again. We also need to keep an eye on temperature conditions, the ideal temperature is zero, because the buds begin to grow already at 2-3 degrees Celsius...

Now about what to do with the unsuccessful ones, actively growing seedlings, in which shoots have already begun to grow, white suction roots, and even leaves to unfold (this happens too!). In this situation, there is nothing else left to do but plant them in a container and try to keep them that way until planting...

I’ll say right away that this storage method is more suitable for experienced rose growers. You need to carefully monitor a rose at home; sometimes a seedling that has happily begun to grow suddenly begins to die, the shoots turn black and wither, and the rose dies completely within a very short time. Why is this happening? One of the main reasons is that the root system never began to develop normally. The seedling first began to grow at the expense of its internal reserves, and when these reserves ran out, it simply died. In addition, at home, seedlings suffer from dry air, it is difficult to maintain a proper watering regime, the roots can be overwatered or, conversely, dried out. In general, there are many difficulties. Although I know gardeners who cope quite successfully with this method of keeping roses...
For planting roses you need to choose a suitable container. Its volume should be such that it can accommodate the entire root system without bending or injuring the roots. There should be drainage holes at the bottom. I usually use containers that are left over from planting roses with ZKS. If you don’t have such containers, you can use a five-liter plastic bottle: cut off the top and make drainage holes at the bottom. I make them with a knife, the blade of which I preheat on a gas stove.

Before planting, we carefully inspect the seedling. If it already has white suction roots, then you will have to act as carefully as possible so as not to injure them. Shoots should be shortened to 3-5 buds. We completely cut out all the dry and broken ones; if the shoots begin to turn black, we cut them back to healthy wood. We inspect the root system for rot, cut off everything rotten, and update sections of healthy roots. If the seedling begins to dry out, then before planting it is best to soak it in water with a solution of humates for at least a couple of hours. The container in which we soak the seedlings must be voluminous, so that the roots of the seedling are completely immersed in water, and it is best to cover the shoots on top plastic bag to create a humid environment.

Soil for planting roses should be loose and nutritious. I add vermiculite to the purchased soil. When planting roses in containers, it is not necessary to deepen the grafting yet; we will do this later, when transplanting the rose into open ground.

The roses need to be covered on top, you can again use trimmed five-liter bottles for this. plastic bottles or regular plastic bags. In a room where the air is hot and dry, your seedlings will feel bad, so it is not advisable to leave them there. Optimal temperature for normal development of seedlings from +10 to +15 degrees. It’s good if there is a covered balcony where you can maintain a certain temperature, or a heated terrace in country house. Fertilizers, in my opinion, should not be used during overexposure: if desired, it is better to water it with water after planting and subsequently spray it several times.

Such seedlings can be transplanted into open ground only after the threat of frost has passed. At first they will definitely need to be covered from the sun.

Starting in February, almost all large stores offer for sale plant seedlings whose root systems are placed in cellophane film with peat or sawdust mixed with sand. Raspberries, gooseberries, honeysuckle, clematis, and a lot of things are displayed on the shelves in bright tall boxes or bags. These plants are very inexpensive. I regularly buy roses at sales like these, which we then plant in our dacha. These seedlings formed the basis of our rose garden, in which more than two dozen roses are already growing, and we think it’s time to wrap up purchasing them, because a large number of

bushes are difficult to cover for the winter.

When I buy roses in winter or early spring, gardeners and summer residents often approach me who do not know the technique of selecting and preserving such planting material, and quite sincerely try to warn me against wasting money. For example, in line at the cash register, one lady looks at my rose from a Serbian nursery, shakes her head sympathetically and says: “Imported roses... They don’t survive here, they’ll all freeze in winter.”

Where do you get such confidence that they will freeze?! We have been buying imported roses for five years in a row, and 90% of them have taken root! And our site is in the most middle lane

Russia - in the Vladimir region. They performed remarkably well in our conditions. roses from Serbia

, grow no worse than ours, and bloom twice during the summer. Moreover, we bought miniature ones, polyanthus ones, and regular park ones. They are taking root, although not without problems, roses produced in Hungary

. Unlike Serbian ones, they often cut the central roots very short (Serbs try to fold the roots carefully, and if they cut them, they leave about 20-25 cm). Hungarian roses require all summer to acclimatize, in the first year they may not bloom. We do not accept German and English due to their high cost. It didn’t work out yet only with high ones park roses from Latvia, but I do not rule out that I simply chose the wrong place to plant them.

In fact, if you properly prepared the rose for winter, that is, applied potassium-phosphorus fertilizers in a timely manner, hilled it in September-October, removed immature shoots and then leaves, covered it with spruce branches, and on top with spunbond in 2-3 layers, but it died anyway, then, most likely, your rose did not freeze out, but dried out. It is very important to inspect your site in winter and in early spring, notice where the snow blows away and where water accumulates in the spring, and do not place roses there. Roses love shelter from the winds, sunny place with rich soil, somewhere higher is better. Plant, fertilize, and everything will work out for you!

And people also think that you can’t take roses on which the buds have started to grow, because supposedly they don’t survive to be planted in the ground. This is also a deep misconception. Roses are covered with paraffin; you cannot assess the condition of the stems, much less the roots. How to choose a strong and healthy plant?

I always take plants only with awakened buds. I choose one where there are a lot of them, it’s better even if there are already pronounced sprouts. But again, future branches should be plump and strong, do not take skinny and long stingy ones. A rose with straight, long, often drooping sprouts woke up under the influence of excessive heat, but without sufficient light and nutrition it will quickly exhaust its strength and will not grow well in the future.

A plant with sprouts brought home will survive well into the summer. glazed balcony or on the terrace, where the temperature is above zero and there is enough light. For example, my balcony is not insulated, but it is double glazed, and now, when it’s a little below zero outside, the temperature on it varies between 6-14°C. A balcony is important; roses purchased in winter cannot be stored in a heated room; not only is it too hot there, but the humidity level is also insufficient.

Need a rose immediately replant in special soil for roses, that is fertile soil with a neutral reaction. You should choose a large pot for it: for miniature roses- at least 2 liters, 19 cm in diameter, for others - even more. Narrow and tall pots, you can use temporary plastic ones (they don’t need drainage), in general, when choosing) a pot, look at the volume of the roots.

When replanting, be very careful when removing the transport soil! Do not shake it off completely so that do not damage the already grown new tender roots. If transportation was carried out in the ground (peat), and not in sawdust with sand, it is better to soak the rose in water before transplanting. Deepen the rose so as to lightly cover the grafting site with soil.

Soil for reliability can be spill phytosporin(no more than 1 teaspoon per 1 liter of water, let the solution brew according to the instructions), but, in principle, I had no problems with the special primer. I also add vermiculite to the soil.

There is no need to place the rose directly against the glass or on the floor, it can be cold there. It is better to place it on a shelf or on a table, put a sheet of thick paper under the pots. corrugated cardboard or bubble wrap.

It is not advisable to remove paraffin from the stems at first., because you risk damaging undeveloped buds. When the new branches grow well, and the paraffin turns pale and begins to flake off, it can be carefully cleaned off.

Water your roses very sparingly in winter., do not allow moisture to stagnate - cold and wet soil provokes the development of fungal infections. As the weather warms up, carefully ensure that the soil in the pot does not dry out, fertilize it, harden it (by opening the balcony), shade it on sunny days - and then by the beginning of the growing season you will bring to the dacha an already well-formed bush, which will bloom in the same year.

In large supermarkets you can see and purchase rose cuttings in beautiful boxes in any season. Quite often they begin to be sold closer to spring, and gardeners cannot resist purchasing affordable flowers. Considering that the box itself initially demonstrates all the splendor of the future bush, it is not easy to pass by such beauty.

But problems with such cuttings exist not only in terms of their planting and adaptation in open ground. In order for it to actually reach this stage, the gardener needs to know how to preserve roses purchased in boxes in February before planting. More ways...

It all depends on the condition of the rose itself. If it is not in a dormant state, and this is very easy to understand by the buds that have hatched, then you need to store the box in the cellar or in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator.

Whether to leave the rose directly in the box or transplant it into another, larger container is up to the gardeners themselves to decide. But, unfortunately, not a single method can guarantee successful wintering. If the rose is in the refrigerator, then replanting it is not very convenient, whereas if stored on a balcony or veranda, it is quite possible.

Important! When transplanting a rose from a box to a container, it is necessary to keep its roots, freed from soil, in a biostimulator. With this approach, there is a greater chance that the root system will not be injured during transplantation and will take root faster. The plant should receive diffused light, but there is no need to water it, otherwise the rose will grow. This rule also applies to the flower that will be stored in the refrigerator.

• If it is not possible to replant roses and the root system is exposed, you can pour soil directly into the box.
• The storage place should be dry, since if there is too much moisture, spider mites may appear on the rose.
• Excessively long shoots, whose size exceeds 10 cm, must be removed, since the flower will grow from dormant buds, while these shoots will prevent it from accumulating strength. and other questions regarding this plant.

How to choose healthy cuttings

It is important to know not only how to preserve roses purchased in boxes in February before planting, but also how to choose live ones. If the plants are initially a dried stick, then even the most competent storage will not help revive them. To do this, you need to carefully examine the rose when purchasing:

• it is undesirable for the flower stems to be treated with wax;
• shortened roots on cuts should not be dry; if they are not dead, they will be white;
• the buds on the flower may already have hatched, but plants with excessively large foliage are better to be put aside, since their strength has gone into the foliage.

Roses with dormant buds are best stored, the stems of which have no traces of mold or other stains, and the stems themselves are not overdried or wrinkled.

When to take a rose out of hiding

You should not think that the cutting should be in a darkened cellar until transplantation. The rose buds must have time to wake up. To do this, they move it to a brighter place already in April and at the same time they begin to periodically moisten the earthen ball. Experienced gardeners say that during the awakening period of the rose, a simple regular spraying will be enough.

The first rose seedlings appear on sale in the middle of winter, and even then it is very difficult to resist buying. Many people are stopped by the fact that preserving a seedling before planting in the ground is not the easiest task. However, it is enough to know a few methods that will help even a beginner cope with this task.

Keeping roses in a pot

The most common method among amateurs is overexposure in a pot or container. At the same time, it is one of the most difficult, because it is quite difficult not to flood or dry out the roots young plant. New shoots that have begun active growth may suddenly wither. And the seedling, which should have even bloomed, suddenly dies. The reason for all this is illiterate care, due to which damage is caused to the root system.

Often pots of roses are placed on a balcony or windowsill. In winter, the temperature is still quite low, and in early to mid-March the sun begins to warm up quite strongly. In relatively constant windless conditions, the buds wake up, demanding additional food, which they cannot yet obtain - the root hairs responsible for the extraction of nutrients have simply not yet formed. Therefore, young shoots deplete the supply of shoots and old roots. In most cases, this supply runs out before the plant begins to feed on roots in full force. And very often such plants die.

To avoid such a development of the situation, it will be enough to keep the seedlings in a cool place where direct contact does not occur. sunlight. This will ensure faster development of the root system. It is important to pay close attention to watering, because it is quite easy to fill or dry out a ball of earth. It is better to continue this maintenance of the rose until the first buds appear, after which the plant can be safely exposed to the sun.

When landing on permanent place Every gardener must be prepared for certain difficulties. Transplanting a rose, like any other plant, is a real stress. During this, the earthen lump is damaged, young roots often die, and sharp changes Temperature, lighting and humidity levels only make the situation worse. Often the consequences can be slow growth of the rose bush over a long period of time. To increase the chances of successful adaptation, you can temporarily take the pot or container with the seedling outside, increasing the intervals each time.

Other ways to keep roses

More simple method, from point of view experienced gardeners, is an overexposure without disembarkation. In this case, the seedlings are placed in plastic film and stored in the refrigerator. Such storage of rose seedlings usually does not have serious consequences for the plant. The only thing worth doing is to wrap the roots of the rose with damp sphagnum moss or plain wet newspaper.