Remove Flowers and Most Leaves
Cut off the flower bud or spent flower and all but the top leaf or two. Reduce the top leaves to three or four leaflets total. Slice the bud from the lowest node to encourage roots to grow.
Place Cuttings Into Potting Soil
Stick your rose cuttings about two inches into a container of potting mix. Press the mix around the stem and water thoroughly. Then add your humidity cover and place the pot in a location with indirect sunlight. This could be on a covered porch, on the side of a shed, or under trees. Some people choose to root rose cuttings indoors on a shady windowsill.
Check Cuttings Periodically
If your humidity cover doesn’t have ventilation, lift it briefly a couple of times a week. You shouldn’t need to add more water unless the potting mix seems to be completely drying out. Whenever you’re lifting the cover, check for cuttings that have turned brown all the way to the base and remove them, along with any fallen leaves.
Remove Humidity Cover
Rooting can happen within a couple of weeks, but expect it to take a month or two. When you start to see roots from the side or bottom of the pot and new leaf growth, you can begin to acclimate the new roses outside of the humidity cover. If you rooted several in a single pot, you should carefully repot them into individual containers.
