BUDDING ROSES
What is budding Why bud
Supplies
1. Knife such as exacto, budding knife or pen
knife
2. Plastic tape for wrapping, marking pen
3. Rootstock
(in the ground or in a pot)
4. Budwood
Demo Steps
1. Scrape shank of
rootstock
2. Wrap plastic tape around shank-write cultivar
name
3. Cut “T” in shank
4. Prepare bud eye and
insert with v cut down
5. Wrap tape around graft.
STAGES
Newly grafted
wrapped Two weeks later- unwrap graft. (Should be green.) Grow as any potted plant,
water well!
NOVEMBER Prepare as for winter care, bury pot with
lip of pot below ground level. Cover multiflora 5 inches with mulch
SPRING Remove mulch in May.
CUT OFF ABOVE GRAFT SITE, only stump remains
Stake added next to graft, so that wind or animal won’t break off sprouted bud graft.
Pinch back new growth after it is 6” tall, so that more canes will be produced.
1st year- called “Maiden”
2nd year-“Number One
Plant” (second year of maiden) growth- is what one
purchases when buying a new rose.