Starting From Seeds: Roses

I have had some failures and successes this summer.  I tried to grow roses from seeds and that failed.  I tried corn and they aren't looking to good, it was my own fault I started them way late in the season and had them indoors.   It was more for my son, his Aunty gave him a package of seeds and he wanted to plant the so we did.    I know, I know corn isn't a house plant. But I was really hoping the roses would have grown.   I was given the seeds, I really don't like flowers but roses are special, who doesn't like roses.    I read that Mini ones can be indoor plants, however I have bad luck with the mini's. I have killed 3 bushes so far. I See them on sale after Mother's Day, etc.. and say to myself "why not".   I wasn't going to keep these roses inside but love starting things from seeds and cuttings.

I followed all the direction I could find online.  I did some seeds one way and others another way to see if one way worked better.   However, I was not real hopeful after reading that starting roses from seed is very hard.


I gave them more then enough time to start sprouting, I even tried to re-pot and "freeze" them again to see if they would do anything.  But nothing happened.    So my advice to you is buy rose bushes, DO NOT start from seed. Unless you can get hundreds of seeds don't waste your time.


                                                             

A Few Facts About Snake Plant

This plant spreads by creeping, its stiff leaves grow up from a basal rosette.  Mature leaves are dark green with light gray-green cross-banding and usually range from 28–35" long and 2.0–2.4" wide.
It converts CO2 into oxygen at night. This plant also filters formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene, toluene, and benzene from the air. 

  tolerant of low light levels and irregular watering

To propagate you can cut a leaf and place in water or cut a section(roots and all) off a place in pot.   I use the leaf in water method to bulk up my snake plant, as the babies grow off the leaf in the water just break off and place in soil of main plant.  One leaf will just keep giving you babies. I had one for over a year, it only died when we moved out of state. 

De-crowding My Snake Plant

While re-potting my plants I decided to break up my Snake plant. It was getting a little crowed. I know they like to be crowed but it was going to hard to get them all back in the pot.     I took a lot of it out but there was still a bunch left, I hope it it still happy after losing some of its buddies.   On the plus side I now have two Snake Plants.