The Ambridge from ergongzi is correct.
Kinda Blue from Jessie
Another Juliet bloom from Blush Bloomery.
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I tested the fertilizer at 25% for a few weeks and bumped up to 50% when I started seeing early symptoms of interveinal chlorosis (when it wasn’t fully complete) and found out that it was similar to the results of the study.
“During the last week of the experiment, there was interveinal chlorosis on 90% of the leaves of the plants in the 25% treatment. The remaining 10% of leaves of the plants were light green with reddish branches. The edges of the younger leaves of the 50% treatments were red with reddish branches. Leaves of the 75% and 100% treatments were dark green.”
https://journals.ashs.org/view/journals/hortsci/45/9/article-p1378.xml
I caught it early so only a few plants had it and I’ve since bumped up to 75%.
Juliet was one of the plants that thrived even at 25%.
Since bumping to 75% I’ve seen a lot of new bud eyes in several plants as well as new growth looking healthy versus sickly.
The props have been in the soil for about a week now. I fed them a 25% strength fertilizer and the bud eyes have begun to grow. I only potted up the clones that had good bud eyes. A few of them didn’t have any even though they had roots and no rot so those were tossed. I highly recommend the aeroponic cloner method!
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We got a lot of shoot growth in one week! The large root system developed in the aeroponic cloner helped out a ton.
I am now on round three of backing up my current plants. The mothers have become quite vigorous with the custom fertilizer I made and I’ve cut down my rooting times to 11 days. I should be able to do my hybridizations shortly here.
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Any tutorials you would recommend for this method of propagating?
You’d want to make a cloner like this one but drill 19 holes instead of 10 and start from the center to make things easier for yourself.
Use a 1 7/8" hole saw instead of a 2" to prevent light leaks and to create a flush fit.
Feed your roses with every watering to get them prepared for producing healthy canes.
Cane Selection:
When selecting canes I’d go for thicker ones to give yourself more room for error as bigger canes are sturdier and have more nutrients. They’ll root at the same time as smaller canes so no need to worry about that at all.
You can use canes in veg, ones that are blooming, or have bloomed with no issue as well. The biggest difference is using canes that have more developed axillary buds. Those grow significantly faster root wise and in general once they’re propagated.
Make a straight cut when cutting your canes like this - not /. This lowers the area that may rot and it makes it easier to heal. A lot of the roots won’t even be near the cut anyways.
What you need to do during cloning:
While using the aeroponic cloner you want to maintain 2ppm of Clorox. That will change depending on the strength of your bleach but at 8.25% concentration you’ll use .125ml per gallon. I change the water once a week and add in the bleach into the new water. I’ve only tested this for once a week but since bleach evaporates within 24 hours you could technically add it everyday if you wanted a truly sterile system.
In about 2 weeks-2 months you should have rooted canes.
Let the canes develop a solid amount of roots before transplanting so that there is no shock when going into soil. I have tested transplanting earlier and the props health does take a hit and recovers in about two weeks.
Feed your propagation a nice and balanced equal feed with every watering to give it a fast start.
If you’re producing props to sell they’ll be ready in about 2-3 months after propagating if you sell them on the smaller side.
Maintenance:
Scrub your bucket and pump to the best of your ability with some soapy water and a clean sponge. Afterwards run the cloner with a 1:10 bleach combo over night. Once the cleaning cycle is complete rinse it out with plain water and then apply hydrogen peroxide to the cloner and pump for 10 minutes to remove any biofilm. After 10 minutes let it air dry and now it’ll be ready for another cycle!
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Wow thank you, might well consider it
Yeah… I’m thinking I might need to try this!
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do ittt! The people in the rose discord i’m apart of just made some i’ll let you know their success rates to give you a better idea of how it performs in other climates in a few weeks.
Apologies if you’ve already answered this, but do you keep the water pump running 24/7 or is it on a timer?
It’s on a 10 sec on 1 min off timer.