How to Grow Roses from Hips

A hip is a small round shaped fruit that the flowers leave behind attached to the plant when all the petals dry and fall down. The Rose's hip is strong to open. It is a wooden shell. Inside the rose's hip; there are many seeds inside the hips. One Rose hip contains about seven or eight seeds.

you need to find a box cutter or a sharp knife. Make sure, you wear garden's gloves before you cut the rose's hip. The rose's hip is small . The best way of cutting the hips is to place them on the cutting board and on the counter of your kitchen. With the tip of the knife, you take the seeds out of the shell. Then place the seeds on a napkin. You leave the seeds to dry for five minutes.

On a small pot full of moist soil make small holes with your one finger to add a pair of seeds on each hole. Then, you cover the holes with some soil that you dig out with the finger. After, you add some water to keep the seeds moist.

The pot with the seeds will need temperature from 63 up to 70 degrees to grow. The seeds will need half sun and half shade to grow normal. Water is essential to keep the seeds growing.

Some other ways to keep the hips or seeds for the 63 to 70 degrees temperatures are important to keep in mind. The rose hips should remain closed if there is no time to care for the seeds are out. The sealed bag full of hips storage conditions is in a room with no humidity until the time allowed in the preparation prior to the growing of the rose's plant. If you open the hip and take the seeds out, and there is no time to bury the seeds. The seeds are placed in a paper's napkin inside a plastic bag on the bottom storage's box inside the refrigerator to keep the seeds good to grow.