Potato Propagated Roses

Propagate roses with potatoes and honey.

First, prepare honey solution.  It has antiseptic properties and provides energy and nutrition.  Dissolve 3 ml of honey to 50 ml of boiled water; cool.

Cut a piece of rose bush, about 8–9 inches of new growth from an existing plant, removing the stem at an angle of about  45-degrees. Snip the leaves, flowers, and thorns.

Dip cut stem in the cooled honey solution.

Take a potato, removing eyes so that you will not be yielding a potato plant. Pierce a 3 inch hole into the potato and put the rose stalk into the hole. Put the potato-based stalk about 4 inches into a pot of moistened soil.

A clear glass bottle can be used as a portable greenhouse cover.

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