how do you cut a rose or any other flower properly?

Question

how do you cut a rose or any other flower properly?

Answer 1

if you are cutting roses for spring cleanup, make a sharp cut 45/90 degree angle above the leaf node. If you cut below part of the stem will die and you may not get the roses you want. If you are cutting roses to bring in the house, follow the tip below

Answer 2

Early in the morning, or late in the day, take a bucket of hot water into the garden. Bring with you a razor or a pair of scissors. As you cut each Rose, place it in the bucket, removing lower leaves and thorns as you go; when done, go quickly back into the kitchen.



Now, if you have one, the best thing to use at this point is the little under-water rose cutter sold by Jackson and Perkins to cut stems underwater. Now that's a terrific Mother's Day Gift.



But scissors or a razor blade will do.



Once in the kitchen, add to your bucket of Roses a splash of chlorine bleach and a few teaspoons of table sugar. Mix well. The bleach will act as a preservative, killing germs; the sugar feeds carbohydrates to the flower and extends the life of the blossom.



Take each stem in the garden bucket and while holding it under water in the bucket, cut off an inch. This keeps air out of the stem and improves water/bleach/sugar intake.



Re-cut the Roses every day and change the water, adding chlorine and sugar each time. Remove spent Roses from the vase immediately; these flowers are highly sensitive to ethylene gas emissions.



This underwater technique works also with viburnum, daphne, magnolias, cherry blossoms, rhododendrons and any other woody-stemmed flower you cut off a shrub

Answer 3

What I do with my roses is , I do cut the bad brenches all the way down. I also remove all the tried , flowers and take them off. I usually cut my rose bushes at the end of fall or at the beginning of Spring .

Answer 4

cut the rose at a 90 degree angle and place in cold water immediately.

Answer 5

definite, many climbers bloom on previous wood. no longer all of them do, although. it is likewise feasible in case you narrow back it too short, which you chopped it off under the graft and all you have is rootstock. in case you probably did this, you may on no account get flora or in case you do they won't seem the comparable. No thank you to understand for constructive till next year although.

Answer 6

about 90 degrees with a knife (preferably a florists knife) either in water or straight into the water immeidietly.