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00:00now when you buy your bare-root roses they will usually come in a cardboard box
00:07kind of like this and wrapped in a plastic bag and the plastic bag is there
00:13to prevent the moisture from evaporating and the roses from drying out during
00:19transportation the next thing you want to do with your bare-root roses is you
00:25want to pick them out of the plastic of course and then you want to find a
00:31bucket and you want to pour water into the bucket and you want to hydrate your
00:38roses ideally you want to get the grafting point under the water kind of
00:43like this but because this is a bucket of water and it's kind of small I haven't
00:50been able to do that but if you have the option to do that let's try to get them
00:55in as deep as possible you don't want to cover the green part of the plant but
01:00you do want to cover it up to around the Union up here so I'm trying to cover the
01:07root roots in as much water as possible now I do find it useful to remember one
01:17thing we're doing this to hydrate the roses and I would say you should max do
01:24this for around 48 hours a minimum around two to three hours and maximum
01:30around 48 hours the reason for that is roses actually do need oxygen and when
01:36they're completely stuck in water if you just leave them there for long periods of
01:41time like two weeks they will eventually start to rot because roses do need oxygen
01:49just like they need water they trade oxygen and water often when they're in the soil
01:55and that is also why very loose soil is important when you're planting your roses
02:01because you want to secure that air flow to the root but one thing I like to do if
02:08in doubt for how long to leave the roses in water is simply to look at your soil
02:15outside is your soil outside very wet is it very dry if it is very dry outside I
02:23would definitely leave them for 48 hours really really hydrate them and before
02:28placing them outside but if your soil is already very wet very dense I would not
02:35give them much more than a day at most maybe in just five to six hours at most and
02:42so do notice how wet your soil is if it is very wet you don't need to hydrate them as
02:48much if it is very dry really go for that deep hydration when you're planting your bare root
02:55roses and bare root roses come in many different shapes you'll notice when a rose is called
03:02A quality that means it has a tree of these stems and they have to be at least a pencil
03:07width and thickness so that is how you tell eight quality rose three of these stems at the thickness
03:16of a pencil now these are grafted roses you can see the union and grafting point down here so these
03:23are not own root these are grafted if you didn't have this union point and you can always see the
03:28union point because it is kind of like this clump at the end of the rose because this rose is
03:36a
03:36multiflora that has been cut here and then they have made this a t incision with a knife and then
03:42they have stuck a branch of another rose in here and then they have tied it up and that is
03:47why you
03:47get this kind of like a tumor growth here I guess kind of like a and not really and that's
03:54why you can
03:55always tell a grafted rose because you can tell it has been cut off here and you can tell this
04:00round
04:01not sticking out but yeah remember to hydrate your roses it is important but do remember to holistically
04:09look at the well around you it's a very wet you don't need to hydrate them for as long as
04:15if it's
04:16very dry soil you're placing them out to and do remember they do need air so don't go above those
04:23two
04:24days really you can maybe get away with three but i wouldn't push it into the multiple weeks and so
04:32i'll go into if you want to store them for multiple weeks i'll show you a method in just a
04:36second
04:38but let's continue here now i thought i would illustrate at which planting depth to plant your
04:46bare root plant because that part can be a bit difficult to spot when we're out in the garden
04:52often looking down into a hole from this distance it can be very difficult to see what is going on
04:59now there are three types of ways to plant your bare root plant there's actually many but i'll go
05:06over three here if you live somewhere very warm you can get away with just covering the crown here
05:13and the crown is of course this right here in the center right here and in a warm place you
05:19can get
05:19away with just covering that because um you don't have a lot of tough winters to worry about so you
05:27don't have to worry that much about dieback the reason you do want to cover the crown is because
05:32you'll get wild shoots from the original root if you don't if you live in america it will most likely
05:38be grafted onto dr huey if living in europe it will most likely be a multi-flora that will cause
05:45wild
05:45shoots for you do remember you don't want to leave this root part down here exposed because then that
05:52root will start to shoot and it won't be the same as the rose you have ordered if you have
05:58a grafted rose
06:00a quick way to tell you how a grafted rose is like the cut has been cut off here like
06:06i explained before
06:07and you have this uh kind of cyan out at the outer edge here um and on root rose uh
06:13doesn't have that
06:15cutting point up here so another way you can do it is in a moderate climate and in a moderate
06:21climate we
06:22do get um tough winters so what we want to do is put a the crown a bit further down
06:29into the soil so our
06:30soil level is around here around five centimeters um on top of the crown and this will help the plant
06:38in many ways for the first uh first point is the crown is protected by the soil against the harsh
06:44winter
06:45another point to make is all these nodes on the branches around here will start forming roots and
06:50those will anger the rose to the soil better so it doesn't get knocked about by the wind and can
06:56make
06:56these rocking motions so that is another advantage with doing it this way where you add a bit of soil
07:03about five centimeters of soil if you live somewhere it gets really cold like um hopefully you're not
07:09trying to grow roses on the north pole but if you're living somewhere like um canada you might want to
07:16put it up even further to protect the crown um against the environments against the tough winters
07:26and the issue with that is a roses do tend to um to rot the higher you go so it's
07:35not uh all um
07:38cost free to just go higher and higher they do tend to rot the more you deeply you bury them
07:44but if you
07:45live somewhere where the winter is the biggest threat i would definitely bury my roses a little bit deeper
07:51um but for most of you um i would say around this level is the most ideal around the five
07:59centimeters on
07:59top uh if you live somewhere like australia a very warm place you can probably get ready with this right
08:06or just covering the crown of it but you do have to be careful because if it is also windy
08:12and you don't
08:13anchor it correctly you can get that rocking motion uh so there's definitely um plus sides and downsides
08:22you can of course also go with this um just covering the crown and then put some soil on top
08:29kind of like
08:29uh a mole hill or something like that a little hill of um earth on top um and of course
08:39when uh spring
08:41comes around you remove the here this hill this uh earth pile you created you remove that off the
08:47rose and then it'll be fine again so that's just a temporary solution and really if you know you're
08:54going to get a couple of rough winter days you can go out and pile up some soil around your
08:59roses
09:01to protect them even more and then when those really tough days are over you can just go out and
09:06remove
09:06the soil again so that's being proactive you can also do it like that but for most of you who
09:13just want
09:13to plant things in most environments and leave it alone i'll say right around here those five centimeters
09:19above the ground it will anger the rose nicely protect it against the winter very nicely and also it is
09:27not deep enough to cause it to rot so in my opinion after trying many different methods i find this
09:35to be
09:36the best way so yeah guys that was quickly um how to um estimate the correct planting height and right
09:46around here uh i think this way is much easier than showing me standing over a hole because you
09:53usually can't see what is going on but uh let's continue now if you do find you can't plant the
10:02roses
10:03before the frost arrives for example i'll have minus four degrees tomorrow please do remember to bring your
10:11roses inside in either an unheated room or place that is as close to five to ten degrees as possible
10:21so we'll bring these roses down into the basement now to protect them from the winter frost because we
10:28don't want these freezing in their pots that is very unhealthy for roses so we'll bring them inside now
10:36now i have just brought my bare root roses down here in the basement where there's no more than i
10:41would
10:42say 10 degrees at maximum and this is perfect the closer you can get to these five to six degrees
10:48the
10:49better the reason we still want to keep them cold is we don't want to encourage them to begin shooting
10:56to
10:56begin activating the little nodes the little buds and begin shooting we don't want them to believe that it is
11:03spring now and they can come out of hibernation that is why we still want to keep them relatively cold
11:10but we don't want to leave them outside in the winter in these water boggers and completely freeze
11:17because that is also very damaging to the rose i can compare it to something you're all familiar with
11:24if you're stuck outside in water and it is freezing how long do you think you'll survive
11:30probably not that long and why is that it is because water freezes extremely fast it is very very
11:39conductive to temperature changes and another thing is that roses just like you prefer to be under a nice
11:50david a nice pillow they prefer to have the roots on the soil because frost doesn't reach the root
11:56very fast on the soil and the thing to remember is even though plants do have their own antifreeze
12:03the antifreeze is mainly in the stems of the roses where plants use certain hormones they use salt they use
12:12certain proteins to create their own antifreeze and essentially what this does is it prevents the ice
12:18crystals from forming inside the plant cells but you also have to remember not every part of the plant
12:25contains a lot of this antifreeze something like the roots for example are meant to be very nimble
12:32they're meant to absorb water and they're meant to be below soil so they don't have a lot of this
12:38naturally occurring antifreeze and because they are meant for a different role they're not meant to be
12:45stuck above soil level in water and freeze and they're meant to be under a nice little dovette
12:52they're meant to be under the soil the temperature changes doesn't happen that rapidly and that's
12:57another thing about the plant's natural antifreeze the plant does need a little bit of time to
13:04change into a different metabolism it can't just deal with a huge temperature change from day one
13:11and so please do protect your roses against standing in water and freezing because it will destroy the
13:21cells and their roots by forming ice crystals and they're not meant to be outside in the frost with
13:30the roots exposed the roots are meant to be nice and comfy on the soil and another thing i will
13:38say is
13:40you also have to remember that you won't see the damage right away often frost damage you will first
13:47see in march and april when the plants begin coming alive and then they'll turn black all of a sudden
13:54the
13:54stems will turn black it'll turn mushy and then you'll first notice the damage there so just because
14:01you left your roses outside in the really hard frost don't assume that means you're in the clear
14:08because in my experience it often means you're losing like one third of what you left out there
14:14and it is the same with water right you don't want to leave your roses out there for five days
14:19in
14:19the water because that usually means you lose one third of all your roses in that bucket so please
14:26don't go experimenting with this on the rose types you like you can run your own experiments with roses
14:33you don't like but trust me for now when i say you don't really want to leave them longer in
14:38the water
14:39then i would say 48 hours maybe you'll be okay with three days but really don't go above it and
14:45and
14:45try to attempt faith and really don't leave them outside in a freezing bucket it will form ice crystals
14:54the ice crystals will go inside the plant cells they will shatter and when they start to unfold you
15:00will have damage so but let's continue here you can also keep a few bags of sand like i have
15:08here
15:09that's because i have experienced before that um sometimes you get your roses delivered during uh
15:16january where you don't know how many weeks it's going to be freezing for and then you'll be really
15:22happy you've kept some sand somewhere that doesn't freeze and you can open the sand bags and you can
15:27put your roses into a nice um bucket a plastic bucket and you can just pour some sand over them
15:35and cover the roots with that and you can kind of give them a little bit of water and they'll
15:40usually
15:40be fine for nearly four weeks which will give you plenty of time to get those roses in the ground
15:47so keeping a few bags of sand frost free you can put into a plastic bucket and pour over your
15:56bare root roses
15:58if you get your roses in an inconvenient time frame can also work out really well for you
16:07now another thing you can do if you don't have time or you know frost is coming is simply take
16:13all your roses like a bunch of them dig a very deep hole and just put them all down there
16:19like that
16:21and then you simply cover them all with soil and that will also help them survive like you can plant
16:3015 of them together in a hole like this and that will help them survive for like three to four
16:35weeks
16:35also so that's also a good way if you can get into the ground and you don't have time to
16:41dig individual
16:43holes simply dig one deep hole and throw the whole bunch down there it doesn't matter if they're 10 to
16:4915
16:49roses together they can last in there for like three to four weeks together easily now if you want
16:57to use this hole for a single bare root rose you simply come in there with your pitchfork or something
17:04else and you kind of loosen it at the deep end so you make sure that that soil is nice
17:12and loose
17:13because you have to remember that the roots need needs an easy time going through the soil so you
17:20want to loosen it and provide a lot of air down there and also if you have very heavy soil
17:28like me
17:28i have a very heavy clay soil you often want to put in a little bit of soil amendment and
17:36just
17:38mix it around with your normal garden soil
17:45like that
17:48and if you have some micro fungial spores or some what it's called my kosher or something like that
17:54you simply put it on the roots and you put it into the hole ideal planting height
18:01right around here five centimeters under the soil with the crown and that is how you plant a bare root
18:07rose
18:11now you might want to take this plant sign and move it all the way up here
18:15to avoid it being in the soil so you can't see it oftentimes when the roses come it's all the
18:23way down
18:24here at the base so i find moving it up here helps you see it while it's still above ground
18:32and you
18:33simply just cover the rows like this remember to keep the crown five centimeters under
18:40and you simply just cover the rows from all sides here keeping it firmly in place
19:06now here's one important and crucial detail you don't want to leave a kind of burrow in the ground
19:13because if you leave this kind of hole what will happen is all the water will go here and then
19:19the
19:19rows will be completely swamped by water all winter so you want to give it level playing with the ground
19:47and you also want to be really careful you get this part in here cover but sometimes the branches can
19:53get in
19:56all the way in there
20:06and one thing i really like to do is i like to make the mount a little higher here in
20:11the middle
20:11so i like to take a little bit of soil and put in there to protect that crown
20:17and that is about the final result i'm just going to even it out a bit more
20:21here to prevent the water and that will be that that is how you plant a rose and you can
20:28see
20:29it is nice and softly tucked all the way in there no exposed crown and these rose stems will go
20:38on to
20:39form white roots and root into the ground and that's how you plant a bare root rose
20:45now some people do like to stomp the ground afterwards uh with the boots kind of like this
20:52with the heel or with the fingers i really don't tend to do that as much because on clay soil
20:58i want
20:59to secure airflow and i find if i go too much stomping like this what will happen is the soil
21:06gets too
21:07compact but if you're on sand soil definitely press it in a little bit because your soil is natural
21:14really loose now let's go over the three different ways that people usually kill their roses
21:21the first one is hydration this is where most people commit a lot of mistakes you have to remember
21:28that your rose has been on the way to your house for three to five days and even though that
21:34plastic
21:34bag it has been stuck in has done its best to keep the moisture trapped around the roots the rose
21:41is
21:41still dehydrated it needs some water and that's why we place them in these plastic buckets and we
21:50hydrate them for up to 48 hours you hydrate the rose up to around the crown point and not up
21:57to the green
21:58stems the green stems shouldn't go on the water only the roots now what a lot of people get wrong
22:05here is
22:06they often tend to forget the roses either something else happens or they don't have the time and we
22:13we sometimes as human beings have many excuses and many things that can go wrong but what i will stress
22:20is that you usually have 48 hours from you put the rose in the water bucket to it needs to
22:27go out of
22:27the water bucket you have 48 hours the first 24 hours is the most beneficial part of the hydration phase
22:36for the plant but up to around 48 hours the plant really doesn't mind being in the water the issue
22:44comes
22:45when you go beyond 48 hours what gradually starts happening is the plant loses oxygen and it starts choking
22:53and the feeder roots start swelling up and they begin rotting that's why you don't want to leave the
22:59rose stuck in water for more than 24 sorry 48 hours um you can probably get away with three days
23:06but you
23:07will have some minor damage and if you go too far um maybe seven days uh even five days you
23:15have done some
23:16serious damage um to your roses often and the sad news about it is you will usually not know about
23:23it
23:23until uh spring comes around um because your roses first starts becoming active around spring and that is
23:31when those black stems and those all things those rotting um things will occur and you will go like oh
23:39why
23:39does that occur it comes out of nowhere and that can in part because you didn't stick to um this
23:48planting
23:48phase this bare root planting phase correctly you usually know about in the spring usually what happens
23:54in my experience is um one third of the bare root roses will suddenly go bad on you because you
24:02left them
24:03too long um in the water usually it doesn't kill all of them just one third of them and you
24:10will know about
24:11it and um usually you start seeing weak growth in march and by april you'll start seeing this rotting
24:18tendency if they have gotten damaged a lot and another thing i'll say is even though it's um very natural
24:26to be curious i want to open the plastic bag right away and do remember when you open that bag
24:33and if
24:33you keep it open you let all the moisture out so maybe you do want to add a little bit
24:38of moisture
24:39in there again if you had the bag open for a long period of time and a lot of plant
24:45breeders do say you
24:47can leave them for sometimes two weeks in these plastic bags which um honestly i think is a long time
24:55of
24:55course you can do it but uh the real question to me is do you really want to to take
25:01a risk even if it
25:03is just a five percent risk um of it going wrong in my opinion you usually get them in the
25:10ground as
25:10soon as you receive them there's many reasons for me giving you this recommendation another reason i
25:16haven't gone into too much is because there's also a microbiome living on your plants roots and the more
25:23that microbiome is out of the soil the quicker it will die off and your roots will have no microbiome
25:31so really do remember to get your roses in the soil as soon as possible after the hydration phase
25:39and do remember 48 hours is kind of the cutoff point from when it stops being beneficial to start
25:47being harmful and then also remember to um not leave your roses exposed to the air for too long because
25:55you're looking at them and stuff like that really close that bag up the plastic bag and make sure if
26:02you had it open for a long time to um maybe take a one of these um maybe a little
26:08bit of a few drops of
26:10water back in the bag again so is there something to keep the moisture level up moisture is so important
26:17when you have exposed um roots but that was uh phase one hydration it is the phase most people get
26:27wrong
26:27either because they believe a longer time spent for growth sitting around in the water will mean that
26:33rose is happier they want to be really good to the rose and give it a really nice drink and
26:39then they just
26:39forget that roses also need oxygen or people are kind of lazy like i can also sometimes be i admit
26:46and
26:46they leave them a lot around for too long or they kind of forget about them and something gets in
26:51the
26:51way so this is a really crucial phase um to really um stay disciplined and get everything together and i
27:01know that can sometimes be hard because a lot of times these bare root roses will show up when you
27:06don't
27:06expect them to show up because usually you don't pick the time yourself maybe you have booked a
27:12vacation maybe you have a lot of family birthdays like i have just had i've had two family birthdays
27:19and i received bare root roses in the meantime and what you really want to do in that case is
27:24you will
27:24dig a hole you'll put all the roses down there you'll cover it in the soil so but let's continue
27:31here
27:33now let's go over the second reason uh people usually kill the bare root roses and that second
27:40reason is um frost people have a tendency to um kind of panic when they get the bare root roses
27:47when
27:48the soil is frozen and then they'll go out there with the heaviest uh um shovel they can find or
27:55something else and they'll try to dig holes into the frozen soil and they'll plant the roses
28:00down into the hole after much effort now why is that a bad idea well it's a bad idea for
28:07two reasons
28:08one is um that all the water in the soil is kind of bound up into ice crystals so there's
28:14not a lot
28:14of hydration uh for the rose but uh and equally um as important point why is the bad idea is
28:22uh that the
28:23frozen soil after a while will usually push the rose upwards um because the soil wasn't fit as compact or
28:31as nicely around the plant when you kind of dig these um the frozen holes so what can end up
28:38happening is
28:39the soil simply pushing um the rose up when it goes through these four on four cycles um so really
28:48avoid planting in uh frozen soil now the next reason people usually kill their plants with um the frost
28:56is a waterlogged soil waterlogged soil is again a very bad idea for the same reason leaving your
29:05roses stuck in a water pot while freezes is a bad idea the reason for that is is much easier
29:12for a root
29:12system to freeze when um they come waterlogged because ice crystals can form inside the feeder roots
29:20and the feeder roots can get destroyed and then they'll rot in the spring and then the rose will
29:25have no way to absorb anything and it can quickly die in during the spring time so really remember that
29:33you don't want your rose to be stuck in any kind of water that is very freezing and the second
29:39reason
29:39is of course as i've gone over many times roses need oxygen they simply do and um i think an
29:47important
29:48point is to as i always say think holistically uh it is the reason i often explain to you a
29:56lot of
29:56different scenarios so you can learn thinking from yourself it is the reason at the start of this
30:01video i didn't just show you one planting depth i showed you multiple for different um kind of scenarios
30:09if you live in australia or if you god forbid live on the north pole and try to grow roses
30:14nearly um
30:15but i am what i really want to um have happening here is you learning to think for yourself it's
30:24kind
30:24of like um the soil amendment i use i only use some kind of light soil amendment because i'm on
30:31clay soil
30:32but if you're on um sandy soil you may might may want to add uh something that keeps the water
30:39uh instead
30:41something like clay or something like so always think about what kind of soil you're also dealing with
30:48on your um in your house and um really think about the whole scenario uh like i said before think
30:59about
30:59how long your rose has been dehydrated um think about the weather outside um take all these factors
31:06into consideration and you really have to learn to think for yourself it is the only way you'll become
31:13a really good gardener it is if you learn to take all these variables and come to your own conclusions
31:19because there's not one answer that fits all and even though it will be very easy for me to tell
31:25everyone to just go bury their bare root roses five centimeters on the ground uh from the crown i
31:31didn't choose to do that simply because it would maybe be good advice for 80 percent of you out there
31:39growing roses but for the 20 it might be terrible advice so that is really why you should be very
31:45careful to just listen to one particular type of video um if there's not the full nuance and that's
31:52really why this video will have to be long because i want it to have the nuance it needs
32:00so but frost do remember to respect it uh also remember to always pick roses uh for your hardiness
32:08zone it doesn't i i know the temptation i'm also growing some roses that are right on the edge of
32:15what
32:15i'm able to grow um for me that's usually around minus 15 celsius and i grow some roses that can
32:23only
32:23go down to minus 15 celsius even though i know i'm in an area that can get minus 22 celsius
32:29um so when that
32:32happens i i know that the price will be that i have to go out into the garden and i'll
32:36have to kind of
32:38dig a little hill of soil on top of the rose uh to protect it and um or i can
32:44leave some branches or
32:45something around the crown to protect the rose and then during springtime i'll remove that so you can
32:52definitely get away with growing some roses that are right on the edge of your hardness zone but my
32:58general recommendation is always choose roses that are like one hardiness zone under your area so if you're
33:06in zone 7b maybe only grow roses that uh are 6b because then you have a little bit of a
33:13security you
33:14have a little bit of safe zone there if things go horribly wrong and sometimes your roses um are a
33:22bit
33:22weak like if you get young rose plants they might not even be able to go down to that uh
33:28level that a
33:30real um fully grown plant can uh so always assume that your roses are a little less uh frost hardy
33:38than
33:38they are simply because to be on the safe side uh but really respect the frost it can kill your
33:44plants
33:45especially if the frost and water uh situation happens at the same time that's why i made a video
33:52a few i can't remember if it was months or weeks back when i explained that waterlogged soil can kill
33:59just as many of your roses during the winter months as um the freezing itself so it is a very
34:07dangerous
34:08combination that you will have to pay a great deal of respect to um in my opinion but let's continue
34:18here
34:18um reason number three why people kill the roses it is usually due to them not knowing how to plant
34:27roses there's a lot of mistakes you can do when planting your bare root roses and let's go over some
34:34of the common mistakes the first common mistake is not getting the crown of the rose to the correct
34:41death the crown of the rose is this part here you can see like a crown is part where you
34:47have the
34:47node and every stem goes from it forming a crown that's why we call it the crown of the rose
34:53but
34:54if you don't get the crown deep enough in the soil it can become exposed to the frost and that
34:59can kill
34:59off the crown and therefore kill off the rose but another thing that can also happen is that the crown
35:07can split like the frost can really get in there dehydrated and the crown may split the wood may split
35:14on the ground so you always want to keep your crown at a certain depth i find five centimeters to
35:22be my
35:23preference because i find it to be the ideal height between protecting from the frost and avoiding most of
35:30the rotting situation but you can experiment a little bit with that and find the ideal for your area
35:37but that is my default recommendation putting the crown five centimeters under the soil now if you get
35:46the crown too far up over the soil what can also happen is you get these wild shoots if you
35:54live in an
35:56area where roses are often grafted onto different roots to provide different benefits in europe it's often
36:03multi-flaught in the us it is dr huey but what will happen is you will get wild shoots from
36:09these
36:10original roots that your roses are grafted on and you can usually spot them because something like
36:16multi-flora often have more leaves instead of five leaves it might be seven leaves so that is a clear
36:24indication that what you're dealing with is a wild shoot so there's many reasons to getting that planting
36:32height and of the crown correct and it can definitely uh either make it a very pleasant experience to
36:40grow a rose or a very unpleasant experience to grow a rose and in my opinion if in doubt go
36:50with five
36:50centimeters below soil level for the crown start out with that see how it goes if you have too much
36:58dieback from the winter you can plant it a bit deeper um if they're okay but you have more of
37:04a rotting
37:05situation going on you can plant it a bit higher if you're living somewhere warmer um so really
37:12experiment with that um but my default recommendation is five centimeters below soil level also because you
37:19want to prevent this rocking emotion from the wind you want those added roots going out from the bottom of
37:27the stems by burning a bit deeper so you don't get the rose sitting like this and be moved about
37:33and bringing roots in the wind so you do want to anchor it decently well in the soil to prevent
37:39that
37:40situation and also to prevent dehydration because if you don't bury it decently well you leave air pockets
37:48or you um have this situation going on um it can lead to a lot of damage to your rose
37:57so getting um
38:01the burying technique correct getting the planting technique of roses correct is a bit of an art form
38:07you have to figure out what works for you uh for me i find the most balanced approach and the
38:14one i go with
38:14uh the most for a rose i really don't know how to grow or a new rose in my garden
38:20i usually plant it
38:22five centimeters below soil level and i find after i started doing that um the first year i started out
38:29with roses i would actually put the crown right on soil level so you had the crown at the same
38:35level as
38:36soil level and um that was not as successful for me as planting it five centimeters under because
38:44i needed that extra bit of frost protection from living in scandinavia but also i found the roses simply
38:53grew better because the crown was not as exposed and it was more angered against the strong winds here
38:59also so you really have to think about your scenario but getting the planting depth incorrectly for your
39:10area it's definitely a way to make your situation more difficult but in general i find that going
39:18with around five centimeters below soil level for the crown it usually doesn't hurt the rose and it is
39:24usually it's kind of like a buddha once said you have that golden mean between two extremes and for me
39:31the one extreme is leaving the rose with the crown all the way you know at soil level because that
39:37leaves
39:37it exposed to many things and the other extreme is planting it very very deeply which leaves it prone to
39:44rotting
39:44you have that golden mean and for me it is right around uh five centimeters below soil level
39:52um could it be seven centimeters maybe if seven centimeters work for you please do i don't always
39:58take it that accurately i know about two fingers maybe three if i'm really
40:02pushing it when i'm out in the garden and the rose is usually fine if it's five six or seven
40:10centimeters
40:10don't worry too much about it and just aim for around five centimeters you can water the rose after
40:17planting it if your soil is not as um wet as mine is i never have an issue with dry
40:25soil during the winter
40:26mine is always decently wet i'm on clay soil and i'm in scandinavian but please do remember if you're
40:33planting roses and you're living somewhere very dry very sunny do remember after you have planted your
40:39bare root roses after you are tucked in the ground a little bit in my opinion not too firm firm
40:45but not
40:46too firm remember you don't want to choke off the airflow you just want to keep out the worst air
40:52pockets
40:53down there but you really don't want to destroy the airflow so please don't go stumping it like
40:58you're doing a professional uh concrete foundation or something you don't want it that airtight
41:05um but you do want those air pockets out of there and if you live somewhere very dry you do
41:11want to add
41:11a little bit of water after planting i just don't do that because i live in a place that gets
41:17extremely wet
41:18during the winter and i don't want to be adding any more moisture to the soil than it already has
41:25um but yeah there's a lot of mistakes you can make but don't be afraid to um go for it
41:32um it is really
41:34something you get a lot of experience with as you learn growing and i can almost guarantee you that um
41:40you will kill a few roses there's no way to avoid it really um it's like in the wine business
41:48we sometimes laugh about when people drop the first bucket of wine really or the first
41:53uh wine bottle right and it goes splash and glass goes everywhere and people are always really really
42:02in a panic mode when that happens the first time but really it is the cost of business really if
42:09if
42:10you're planting a lot of roses if you're planting roses in general you you will sooner or later have a
42:16rose that simply dies on you it can be the weather it can be your planting technique it can also
42:21be the
42:21condition it was delivered in from the breathers and that is another point if you get one of those
42:27roses that only have like two small stems that really does impact the survival lots of it over the
42:34winter usually they're okay but oh they're a bit more tricky um to get so uh through the winter they
42:43usually pull through but uh i would say that most of the roses that die on me in a winter
42:50situation
42:51are those kind of weaker ones with only two stems um so they are definitely a bit tougher if you
42:58don't
42:59um give them ideal um circumstances um but you can definitely do it but yeah guys um
43:08um i i think i'll also go a little bit into the bacteria you put on the roster micro fungi
43:16or
43:17these kind of like um what i call microcelia or something like that in english um you have to
43:24forgive my scandinavian sometimes sometimes the scandinavian word pops up into my mind when it comes to
43:30these more uh professional terms um but it definitely helps uh spraying the roots with that if you have it
43:36i
43:37didn't have it here today and also there's often a limited um time period where that stuff is good for
43:45usually it expires very quickly so don't go buying a massive amount of it because you usually can store
43:51it that long because it's live organisms um but it does help a bit especially if you have had the
43:58roots
43:58of the roses out of the soil for a long period of time and the microbiome on this on the
44:04roots have died
44:06off it definitely helps but um it is a nice to have not a need to have it helps it
44:13will probably do five
44:14percent but it is also expensive it is a trade-off um if you want to do that that's completely
44:21up to you
44:21what you do is kind of like parmesan cheese you you'll get your a small sassel of um this micro
44:29fungi
44:29and kind of uh spray it on the roots like that kind of like parmesan cheese when you're making food
44:35at
44:35home uh so don't worry about it it is very easy to do if you want to do that and
44:42but really make sure
44:44that the soil is uh loosed in the bottom that the planting depth is correct uh if you need to
44:51water
44:52water it is again the thing i've been explaining time and time again you need to think holistically
44:57you need to think what the rose has just been through and what it needs in the current moment
45:03and how the weather is outside um if you want to get good at a rose growing and of course
45:11you can also
45:12um do some damage to the roses when it comes to pruning techniques um but usually that just leads to
45:20you getting less flowers uh pruning techniques is something i will go over during the spring
45:28in general the things to be really careful with are the historic roses if you have bought jack
45:35cartier or rose de resch you have nothing to worry about but if you have bought something like
45:40madam hardy and a few others of these really old historic roses you do need to know a certain
45:47pruning technique for growing old historic roses but that is something i'll go over during the spring
45:53time since you stuck around i thought i would mention three more mistakes that i could think about
46:01the first mistake is getting the wrong ph
46:05um soil for your plants where roses tend to prefer very neutral uh soil they tend to prefer soil around
46:16six to six and a half on the ph scale and they don't like when you go into alkaline like
46:22seven and
46:23a half and above they really don't like when you go into the acidic like five and a half and
46:29below
46:30and sadly often people just buy the cheapest soil and sometimes they go home with a rhododendron or
46:38azaleasol something that can be like a two and a half three and a half on the
46:43ph level and the issue is when the ph level of your soil is wrong what happens to roses is
46:51they have a very
46:52hard time absorbing micronutrients it can be something like iron it can be something like magnesium
46:59all these different kinds of macronutrients are very hard for the roses to absorb when they're in the
47:04wrong ph level environment so really do remember to read the back side of the plastic bag with soil
47:13what the ph level is of that soil and trying to get as close to six six and a half
47:19as possible you
47:21want a very neutral soil when dealing with roses to make sure they absorb nutrients correctly
47:28the second thing i often see as a mistake as a bonus mistake i often see people do is they
47:35want to
47:36really take care of the roses or at least they think so and then they throw artificial fertilizer down
47:43into the planting hole or they throw some kind of manure or some kind of compost down into the planting
47:49hole during winter and the issue with that is that will actually burn the roots you don't want to be
47:56adding fertilizer anytime during the winter and you especially don't want to add fertilizer or
48:03compost or anything directly down into the root zone because that will burn the roots
48:10so please do remember to be mindful that you do want to fertilize your roses but not never during
48:17the winter time first in spring time you want to start out with some nitrogen and then after that you
48:23want to move more towards the phosphorus and the the potassium calium um to encourage flowering first to
48:32encourage stem formation and later to encourage flowering but do remember during the winter time
48:38there's no need for fertilizer so don't use artificial fertilizer or any kind of manure and down into the
48:46planting hole the second mistake or sorry the third mistake people often can make is they'll cut
48:55um the canes down um too short and the issue is the canes actually do store energy and the more
49:03of the
49:03canes you cut off um the more of the available energy for the rose you destroy so cutting your canes
49:11back
49:11um too harshly during autumn before the rose has um or beginning winter before the roses had time to um
49:19really store all that um energy down towards the roots um can also be harmful you don't need to disturb
49:28your roses more than you have to you can also cut them back and in february well any problems or
49:35um sometimes you can even get away with march but in february usually late february uh it is a better
49:41time to cut off um the canes because um the the canes do store a lot of energy for the
49:48rose and if you
49:49cut them off that is less available energy and that is also why as i i explained before that a
49:55rose with
49:56two canes can sometimes have a little bit harder of a time to survive than a rose with three or
50:01five canes
50:03because um canes do store energy and uh it matters a lot um to the rose and i also like
50:11to leave my
50:12canes a little bit longer for the winter because my experience is often that the first five to ten
50:18centimeters of um the cane will freeze down if you live somewhere colder like me and i don't want that
50:25frost damage to reach too far down so i do tend to leave my canes around these
50:31at least 15 to 20 centimeters i even leave the original rose canes i don't really cut my roses
50:38before we're entering february because i want the plant to have as much of its available nutrients and
50:46as much as possible of its original energy storage left um only exception is if i have a really large
50:56rose very tall rose and i'm very worried that the winter wind will snap it or snow will cover it
51:04and
51:04break it in that case i might cut it a little bit back a bit back to avoid that um
51:10but really think
51:11about what you're doing and these are also some mistakes i i see people do um so yeah guys this
51:18is really
51:19it take care of
51:20you
51:20you
51:21you
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