How to plant a rose on a dog rose in autumn: rules and step-by-step instructions, care

How to plant a rose on a wild rose trunk in summer or autumn? Several methods of plant grafting are known. As practice has shown, the simplest and most effective is budding with an eye. A dormant bud of a rose is grafted onto the trunk of a growing two-year-old wild rose from late July to September. With this method of vaccination, the result is immediately visible. If the bud has not taken root, budding can be done again.

What is it for?

A rose grown from a cutting and having its own roots, bought in a garden store, can be planted in a flower bed in spring. It will bloom all summer, and may not survive until the next season.After all, most hybrid varieties are not adapted to harsh winters. Own-rooted roses often disappear in the first years of life. In frosty winters, young seedlings sometimes freeze, however, thanks to dormant buds, they sometimes recover in spring.

If you graft a rose on a wild rose, the viability of the plant will increase. The grafted flower is not afraid of winter cold, disease, adverse weather conditions (rain, drought) in the summer season.

Advantages and disadvantages of the method

Benefits of Rose Hip Grafting:

• increases the frost resistance of the flower;
• immunity increases, resistance to many types of diseases;
• the plant adapts more easily to any weather conditions;
• rose blooms faster.

Disadvantages of the method:

• the wild rose used as a rootstock can produce shoots;
• scion and rootstock may not grow together on the first try.

Types of roses and wild roses used for budding

A rose is grafted onto a wild rose so that the scion is strengthened by the useful qualities of the rootstock. For vaccination, wild varieties of wild rose (May or dog) are taken. The stock should have good immunity, increased resistance to frost, drought, waterlogging, as well as a low tendency to form root shoots.

As a scion, you can take roses of the following varieties: hybrid tea, climbing, semi-climbing, spray, floribunda, polyanthus, grandiflora. The eyes of roses are grafted onto the root collar of the wild rose. In this case, a frost-resistant bush is obtained. You can graft to the stem of the wild rose. You get a trunk, that is, a tree on a high leg with a lush crown at the top.

When to plant a rose on a wild rose

Vaccination with a sleeping eye is best done in the summer. Buds on roses are ready for budding from the end of July, all of August, until September, that is, immediately after the roses have faded. In summer, plant juices move intensively, so the stock and scion grow together faster. You can vaccinate in early spring. In this case, not a sleeping, but a germinating rose bud is taken, which immediately starts to grow.

Rules for choosing a rootstock

Rose hips intended for rootstock are grown in advance. At the time of vaccination, he must be 2 years old. Rose hips are harvested in autumn, the seeds are immediately sown in the ground to a depth of 5 centimeters to form a long root neck. The next spring, the sprouts sprout.

In early summer, they pinch the top to form a strong root system.

Once a month the bushes are fed with minerals. Before frost, they are mulched with humus. After 2 years in the middle of summer, the seedlings are ready for budding. At this point, the thickness of the root neck should be 4 millimeters. If the thickness of the neck is 8 millimeters, then such seedlings are not budded, but are used for grafting with a cutting. It is made at the end of autumn.

Two weeks before budding, a stock is prepared. It is regularly watered, as a result of which the cambium is saturated with moisture, and the bark is well separated.

Preparing the scion

If the vaccination is done in the summer, then choose roses that have already faded. On the day of budding, cuttings are prepared, from which sleeping eyes are taken. They are cut from the middle of the lignified stem of the selected variety. Young, one-year-old twigs that have not yet bloomed flowers are not suitable for budding.

The shield with a sleeping kidney is cut off with a special knife. The leaf is cut off, leaving a stalk that you can hold on to during budding. The bark and bud should remain on the shield.

Vaccination process

How to do a budding (vaccination with a sleeping eye):

• budding is carried out from late July to September;
• rake the ground from the rosehip bush, release the root collar;
• the neck is wiped with a cloth and a T-shaped incision is made on it;
• the bark on the wild rose is separated from the wood and immediately pressed back so that the cambium does not oxidize;
• insert a rose eye, similar to a shield, consisting of bark and bud, inside the incision, and remove the wood from the shield;
• the scion is pressed tightly against the rootstock and wrapped with tape;
• the grafted plant is spudded with moist soil, not reaching the grafting site, so that the bud does not dry out, but does not get dirty.

After 2-3 weeks, the result of the vaccination is checked. The grafted bud should remain green and even slightly enlarged. The petiole left on the eye should fall off when touched. The bandage of an established vaccine can be loosened.

In November, the grafted plant should be covered high with earth and insulated. The following spring, the bandage can be completely removed, and the upper part of the wild rose can be cut off to the grafted eye. The wound must be covered with garden pitch.

Specific grafting of standard roses

For grafting standard roses, dog rose or wrinkled rose hips are used. A 2-year-old shrub is suitable for rootstock. One, the strongest, upright trunk is selected from the wild rose. Its height should be 1.5 meters.

Budding is done not on the root collar, but on the stem of the wild rose. A low standard rose bush is obtained if the eye is inserted into the trunk at a height of 80 centimeters, the middle one - 1.2 meters, and the high one - when budding at a height of 1.5 meters.

Vaccination is done immediately by 2-4 kidneys. They are inserted into the rosehip bark from different sides. The side branches of the shrub are removed. Climbing and semi-climbing roses are suitable for a high trunk, hybrid tea, floribunda, polyanthus for a medium one, low-growing varieties for a low one.During grafting, a T-shaped incision is made on the rosehip bark. A rose eye is inserted into it. The vaccination site is wrapped with tape or bandage. The kidney itself is left open.

After 2 weeks, you can check the condition of the eye. If the kidney turns black, the vaccination has failed. If the eye is alive, green, swollen, then the budding was done correctly. This vaccination is usually done in the summer (from late July to September). A dormant rose bud is inserted into the bark of the wild rose. For the winter, the vaccination site is insulated, wrapped in burlap.

In the spring, the bud is opened, the branches of the wild rose are cut with pruners over the grafted eye. The wounds are covered with garden pitch. From the buds grafted to the wild rose, shoots grow. Over time, the branches need to be pinched to stimulate the growth of lateral processes. During the summer, near the wild rose, you need to constantly remove the root growth.

When the trunk grows, it can be tied to a support so that the plant does not lean to the ground under the weight of the branches.

Plant care after vaccination

After grafting, the kidney grafted to the root neck is not touched. The scion must grow together with the rootstock. The main thing is that the earth does not get into the grafted place, otherwise the kidney will not take root. Usually, the eye of a rose fuses with a wild rose in 2-3 weeks. At the end of autumn, the grafted plant is highly spudded with earth and covered with dry leaves. Insulated rose hips are great for winter.

In the spring, closer to May, the bandage is removed from the grafted place, and the rosehip bush is cut off to the very bud (a centimeter above the eye). The wound is treated with garden pitch. After 2-3 weeks, the kidney germinates. The grown shoots are pinched in summer to form a branched crown.

If the weather is dry, the grafted plant should be moderately watered. At the beginning of the growing season, the rose can be fed with organic matter or nitrogen supplements.In summer, the plant is fertilized with potassium and phosphorus. The grafted rose is protected from diseases and insects, sprayed with fungicides and insecticides.

During the summer, the ground near the plant needs to be loosened, weeds are plucked, and germinating shoots are removed. By autumn, 3-5 skeletal branches should form on a young bush. Closer to winter, it can be insulated. Next summer the rose will bloom.

Tips and mistakes of flower growers

Inoculation with an eye is best done in the summer, on a growing live wild rose. After 2-3 weeks, you can check the survival of the eye. Rose cuttings are harvested on the day of vaccination. If the procedure had to be postponed for some reason, the branches can be wrapped in a damp cloth and put in the refrigerator. In this state, they can be stored for two weeks.

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