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What you need for finishing

To successfully refine a rose, you basically only need three things:

• a good grafting knife
• a suitable pad
• a beautiful hybrid tea rose

The grafting knife is just as much a part of a rose grower's tool as the sharp kitchen knife for the cook. Wild roses are primarily used as a base because they have particularly strong roots, are usually hardy and also quite insensitive to the typical ones Rose diseases are. Rosa canina (dog rose), Rosa multiflora (multi-flowered rose) or Rosa laxa are used particularly frequently. This document plant either in late fall or in the garden in early spring. Finally, in August, you can do the inoculation.

Instructions for refining your rose

After all, the best time for processing is August. At this point the wild rose rootstock will have grown well and the selected hybrid tea rose is probably in full bloom. Now you can go completely according to plan.

Cut and prepare fresh shoots

First of all, you cut a hybrid tea branch with a freshly faded flower and remove all leaves and spines from this flower head. But be careful: leave the petiole still on the shoot, because the required eyes are located directly under it.

Removal of the eye

Now disinfect your grafting knife first so that no unwanted germs can penetrate the wound and ruin the work. Carefully break off the left petiole and cut the one underneath eye out. To do this, place the graft knife just above the eye and make a sharp, vertical cut downwards. Carefully fold this piece over and remove the piece of wood that looks like a fork. What remains is the actual green eye, which you now insert into the surface.

To do this, first expose the root neck of the base, clean and disinfect it. Then cut a “T” into it and carefully fold the ends over - you now carefully slide your eye into the pocket that has been created. Make sure to insert the eye the right way round! Otherwise the shoots will later grow in the wrong direction instead of upwards, as desired. Fold the ends shut again and connect the finishing point with a special rose elastic band.

What else you have to do after finishing

Now you have to be careful, because in the following spring the shoots should only emerge from the grafting point, but not from the rootstock. Wild rose shoots should not be cut off (this promotes their growth all the more), but broken off directly at the base.