10 weeks and my first flower bud

All I can say is wow! Ten weeks have gone by since I started my first batch of rose propagations and yesterday I noticed the first flower bud! I honestly never expected to see this till the Spring time. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.

As for the other cuttings,many are still experiencing great growth while others still continue to be slow about it. I started misting the other day with a small amount of Miracle Grow for roses added to the water to give them a boost of energy. I have also lost a couple more, one do to my "experimenting" and two others to I guess damping off.

Anyways, here's the pic of the new bud:

New Rose Propagations Doing Good

Well last Monday I returned from vacation. Before I left I setup a timer for the light system to ensure the plants were getting the required amount of light while I was gone. Only thing lacking was an automatic watering system, so I ensured there was enough moisture in the tub to hopefully sustain them.

Needless to say when I returned I was shocked. Most of the rose cuttings had lost there leaves. The timer had malfunctioned and was not operating correctly, and to top it off I had an infestation of spider mites!

So after cleaning out all the dead leaves, I was left with a bunch of green, leafless sticks. However, the good part is that they were still green, and thus there was still hope for them. I returned the timer for one that worked properly, misted them and left the rose cuttings to there own.

Needless to say after another week almost a dozen of them have new leaves growing from the emerging buds, and man more have new buds developing! I'm very happy that they are starting to show signs of life and that all is not lost. I will be starting the process over again next week with another batch of cuttings, hoping to duplicate the process.

So far to date I have only lost 4 of the original 45 cuttings.