Roses

[niklas anderson]

You can also do that with hibiscus and petunias.I have 4 rose bushes and 2 hibiscus that were all started from cuttings using this method.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Friend's wedding, right. I believe you.
Yes you can feed everyday. my CDTmcruises around my rose bush everyday, like a vaccum cleaner.

Nice! I might have to try and grow a bush!
Please! I don't date!

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

It takes a few years but it will become a decent size bush, until that it's a small shrub with one or two roses.

Does it have to be a potato? Obviously, it's just wilt with water, so honey is good.

 

[niklas anderson]

You can repeat the process with hibiscus and petunias.I have 3 rose bushes and 5 hibiscus that started as cuttings that were raised in this way.

 

[dmmj]

Do you have a 99 cent sore? they sell the mini roses, that is what is i n m,y yard, granted it is like 10 years old, and very large, but my tortoise likes it.
You don't date? ok, keep denying, I am sure we all believe you.

 

[niklas anderson]

You don't have to use a potato you can just stick it in the soil and the honey feeds it because propagation can really stress out a plant and will need extra nourishment.apart from honey you can use sugar, cinnamon,fish or fish oil, you can even use reptile calcium.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Do you have a 99 cent sore? they sell the mini roses, that is what is i n m,y yard, granted it is like 10 years old, and very large, but my tortoise likes it.
You don't date? ok, keep denying, I am sure we all believe you.

No, but the Dollar Store is right around the corner! Did you plant it outdoors straightaway? I feel like my sulcata would kill the thing!
Believe it.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

You don't have to use a potato you can just stick it in the soil and the honey feeds it because propagation can really stress out a plant and will need extra nourishment.apart from honey you can use sugar, cinnamon,fish or fish oil, you can even use reptile calcium.

Wow! I never thought of it like that! Honey has moisture, too, but I'll have to try it out with plain sugar, too! I'll need to snip off a couple buds tomorrow... do I ever water it? Or no, until there's roots?

 

[dmmj]

I never plant anything right away, fertilizers and everything. I potted it, waited a year and then planted it. It has become a cheap, and plentiful food source, the only better food source I have, is my grape plants, naturally.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

I never plant anything right away, fertilizers and everything. I potted it, waited a year and then planted it. It has become a cheap, and plentiful food source, the only better food source I have, is my grape plants, naturally.

What about grass?
I need to try this!

 

[dmmj]

grass? Like lawn grass, right? my sulcata tears up the st. augustine like a mad man. Water turtles can eat grass, as well, mine do whenever I mowed the back yard,

 

[niklas anderson]

Keep it very we'll watered and do this with a couple of them because not all of them will make it.

 

[niklas anderson]

No, but the Dollar Store is right around the corner! Did you plant it outdoors straightaway? I feel like my sulcata would kill the thing!
Believe it.
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[ZEROPILOT]

Thanks for the tip about florist store roses. I hadn't considered that. I've been meaning to see if my RF would like some.

 

[johnsonnboswell]

Valentines day is on the way. The days afterward all those mini rose bushes are on sale for half off or less. That's a good time to buy them. Tortoises don't mind waiting until all the systemic poisons cycle through. Their feelings aren't hurt if they don't get love tokens according to a set calendar date.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Nice! I might have to try and grow a bush!
Please! I don't date!

That's just sad.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

That's just sad.

I don't think so

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Yep. There was a long time I didn't either. Back on topic. I just asked my neighbor for a wilted rose on one of her bushes and my tortoises did NOT touch it. You think because it wasn't fresh?

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Yep. There was a long time I didn't either. Back on topic. I just asked my neighbor for a wilted rose on one of her bushes and my tortoises did NOT touch it. You think because it wasn't fresh?

Probably. If I even 'try' to give any one of mine something slightly wilted, I can just see it right now! Sniff it... turn their nose and refuse to eat it.
'How DARE you feed me this despicable thing? I can't touch that!'
Maybe ask her for a fresh one and see if they'll eat that.

 

[dmmj]

Not all tortoises will eat roses, most do, my russians, and rf won't touch them, go figure!