I'm certainly no expert on roses but I could offer some general advice from my experience with other plants. I'm guessing from the fact that they droop in soil but not water that they don't have any roots yet. You can buy plant hormones, called auxins (although I'm afraid I don't know what the brand names are), which promote growth. I've seen them before in powder form but they might also be available in solution or something you put in water. If you dip the bottom of the stem in the auxins before planting them, this should encourage them to grow roots to suck up water from the soil.
If this doesn't work and no one else has other advice I can ask my grandad, who worked as a gardener and cultivated many roses in his time.
Good luck with the crops. I live in a flat with no garden, but fortunately I have nice big windows so I can grow stuff inside. I have an avocado tree that's nearly 2m tall in a tiny 8" pot - it's my pride and joy
. I plant a few things in the boyfriend's garden but it's not very sunny, so not great for growing food...
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