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- Successfully multiply potato rose
- Especially easy: Separate and implant foothills
- Potato rose in the planting necessarily provided with root barrier
- End of November: cut ripe sticks
- Stratification necessary: sow the seeds of the potato rose
- Tips
The potato rose usually takes its propagation into its own hands
Successfully multiply potato rose
The potato or dune rose (so called because it was planted for a long time as erosion protection on dunes) is one of the very robust and extremely undemanding representatives of wild roses. Originally from the northern regions of China, Japan and Korea, Rosa rugosa is now considered an invasive plant in many countries. The potato rose is very easy to propagate and also spreads itself extremely fast by root outcrop.
Especially easy: Separate and implant foothills
Rosa rugosa tends to a very strong self-propagation through Wurzelausläufer or rhizomes, which can of course also be used for targeted propagation. To do this, separate the shoots from the mother plant using a spatula and immediately plant them at their new location or in a special breeding bed. Since the potato rose is very frost hardy, the young plant does not need frost-free wintering. The best seasons for harvesting the foothills are both the spring (before the shoot) and the fall.
Potato rose in the planting necessarily provided with root barrier
Said root shoots can quickly become a plague, because the potato rose spreads very quickly even from the smallest root remnants themselves and is also difficult to combat. Even a drastic cut down to the ground several times can not harm the plant. For this reason, you should definitely install root barriers when planting to avoid nasty surprises.
End of November: cut ripe sticks
A further vegetative and thus guaranteed sort of propagation can be realized with sticks, which are ideally cut in mid to late November, before the first frost. These about 20 centimeters long Steckhölzer be the winter over frost-free and cool stored in slightly damp sand and planted the following spring. Only the uppermost eye should look out of the ground.
Stratification necessary: sow the seeds of the potato rose
Also, the propagation of seeds usually succeeds quite easily, with the germ inhibition of the seeds before sowing must first be broken by a cold period. To do this, mix the seeds, which have been carefully cleaned from the pulp, with slightly damp sand and store the mixture in a transparent plastic bag or glass jar for about four weeks in the vegetable compartment of your refrigerator. Then you can sow it, but you have to be patient: the seeds of the potato rose may take up to a year to germinate.
Tips
If you want to get larger quantities of seeds, you can also put all the rosehips in a blender to dissolve the pulp from the seeds.