When to plant out shrubs raised from cuttings

Stoodles

I'm taking cuttings from many things, to fill my garden more cheaply.

One successful project is Rosa "The Fairy". I have a set of lovely little plants in 9cm pots. I can't decide if I need to pot them on, or if  could just plant them out as they are now or in early Autumn.

My soil tends to sit wet over the winter, but the parent plants which have been in for 2 years coped well, even though some of them were in puddles for weeks on end.

Farway

If well rooted I'd go for now, soil & air are warm and they should romp away

fatbelly

If you plant them now, keep them well watered through July and August

twopenny

I'd disagree - but that's choice for you  

Don't know what it's like where you are but it's blistering hot here and has been dry for most of the 'summer' so the ground is hard and surrounding air dry.

August towards the end is cloud and thunderstorms usually, even better september is a calmer good time. Could they survive as they are for a few more weeks? Water and feed.

Then they will have damper ground, cooler air and autumn winter is when roots develope so they have time to get their roots down and settle in.

Katiehound

I agree with @twopenny- round here the ground is very hard because altho' it has rained it hasn't soaked in.

I would plant out in the autumn. Keep them somewhere cool for now.

Of course you could hedge your bets- plant some out & keep some for later! you could repot into larger pots in the meantime.

Stoodles

There has been far too much rain here, so our ground is still damp below the surface. I think they would be OK unless we get a long hot spell. Not expecting that!  I just wonder if they need to be bigger.

The roots have filled the pot, but aren't yet circling, so it would be the ideal time either to pot on or plant out.  No-one has suggested potting on though, so perhaps I will risk it when the current sunny spell ends.  My other roses have been "pruned"  hard by muntjac, but the parent Fairy roses are safe so far. There certainly wouldn't be enough on the new plants to stand up to the same treatment, so I will have to protect them with wire cages.

I'm finding it immensely satisfying to produce so many plants myself rather than buying them in.

Farway

Blimey, now we know you have deer munching them, I reckon potting on & protecting until larger would be the way to go

Stoodles said:

I'm finding it immensely satisfying to produce so many plants myself rather than buying them in.

Same for most on here, even better you get exactly same plant as seen

Katiehound

Stoodles said:

There has been far too much rain here, so our ground is still damp below the surface. I think they would be OK unless we get a long hot spell. Not expecting that!  I just wonder if they need to be bigger.

The roots have filled the pot, but aren't yet circling, so it would be the ideal time either to pot on or plant out.  No-one has suggested potting on though, so perhaps I will risk it when the current sunny spell ends.  My other roses have been "pruned"  hard by muntjac, but the parent Fairy roses are safe so far. There certainly wouldn't be enough on the new plants to stand up to the same treatment, so I will have to protect them with wire cages.

I'm finding it immensely satisfying to produce so many plants myself rather than buying them in.

Yes, I did!
see my post above

"you could repot into larger pots in the meantime."

Haven't any suggestions re Muntjac pruning 'though! perhaps plant something between that they dislike?

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• Vegetable: Rhubarb.
• Shrub: Skimmia.
• Climber: Jasmine
• .and things with fuzzy foliage.
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