Anybody tried aeroponic propagation?

15 years ago

Hello,

I am a rose newbie, having just acquired some cuttings which I am attempting to propagate in rock-wool cubes. But I have heard many people noting that roses are difficult to propagate via this method and so I was wondering if anybody had tried to aeroponically clone roses? Aeroponic propagation generally has a very high level of success and I was wondering if this pertained to roses also.

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donnaz5

14 years ago

I wouldn't say that you are doing it wrong..they need to go into soil eventually, right? My guess is that they haven't been acclimated correctly..if they have been in a cloner with 100% humidity and they get thrown into your air, they get shocked..i would try putting them in potting mix, but making sure you had something over them to keep humidity in, so you can gradually get them used to less and less.
are they shriveling up and dying, or are they turning black first? black is usually too much water, sometimes cold..green and dead, I would go back to guessing humidity, assuming that you watered them!!
You got roots!! That is the hardest part..so keep playing with your methods, you'll be a pro in no time! Donna

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ramblinrosez7b
14 years ago
I thought about doing this but it is too expensive for me.
kstrong
14 years ago
For Christmas last year, my bro gave me an Aerogarden (which is an indoor hydroponic grower intended to grow kitchen herbs). It was quickly hijacked into rooting rose cuttings. It works fine, but you still need to spray mist the cuttings at least daily and more if the weather is warm, or else you will lose the leaves before the roots form (at which point the cutting dies). If you can keep the leaves for a few weeks, the roots do eventually show up. In addition to the tablet food that came with the system, I put a couple drops of Dip & Grow and a capful of Superthrive in the recirculating water. Takes about 3-4 weeks to get enough roots to transplant into dirt.
kstrong
14 years ago
Follow-up on this Aerogarden experiment -- while I was able to get roots on cuttings, I have not yet been able to get any of them to transfer to soil -- once potted in a planting medium, they just fade away and die.

Does anyone have any idea how to take a hydroponically grown rooted cutting to soil? I obviously am doing it wrong by just sticking it in the soil.

Kathy
Ann S.
3 years ago
I’ve done a lot of coneing other plants with clients it’s best to go into a airy meadium after the cloned like rock wool the roots have so much oxygen in the closer that they are staved out in soil so put the roots in rock wool and plant the rock wool in the soil.
Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
3 years ago
I've actually read of people using rock wool as a rooting medium, but have never tried myself. I wonder how it would do for roses?