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About Planting Rose Bush/planting seeds?

I have have flower seeds that I am wanting to plant, and Roses in my grandmothers garden, Whats the best chemical/soil/ products that i can use when watering the flowers, ok about the Roses ,I have a bunch of snip roses with stems, I heard I can use some type of Root starter or growth Hormone, and special water to start a rose bush from a rose stem. any help would really be appreciated

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1. You can buy something called root tone (if I remember the name) which is a rooting hormone that will help promote root growth. However you need to clip it below a node where branches are starting to grow out (where it forks). Then just use regular potting soil and water. Roses do prefer a certain acidity but you can worry about that when they're larger. They sell fertilizer specifically for roses.
2. 1. Go to this website, click onto the flower seeds that you have, scroll all the way to the bottom of the information page and read all about how to grow your seeds: http://www.gardenersnet.com/flower.htm 2. Everything you need to know about growing roses from cuttings (with pictures): http://www.scvrs.homestead.com/Cuttings1.html
3. 1) Plain water works better than anything for starting seeds. Later, you can use a little fertilizer or compost. For flowering plants, the ratio of N:P:K should be about 1:2:1 or 1:2:2 (as in 10-20-10 or 5-10-10) 2) If your cut roses are from the florist, they've probably been treated with something like silver thiosulfate, and are not viable. This is a little late in the season to take cuttings in most of the US, but here's some information from the ARS: http://www.ars.org/About_Roses/propagation.html Remember that home propagation of patented plants is illegal.