My Fukien Tea has three branches that I'm not sure about, the main branch comes up straight from the soil, then takes a 90 degree turn, then straight up, with a few small branches at the top. But there are three branches coming off of the main branch. First one right where it bends, and two others where the main branch goes straight up. It's in pretty good health with small leaves and flowers, but those two branches are bugging me, and I feel they should be gone. I bought this one at a big box store for $10.99, and looking on line one like this goes for over $500.00, did I get a good price? Wish I could post a photo of it here, but I don't see a link to upload it. Anyone?

I've had the most success with propogation when I did it during the summer months. Don't know why, but it's something I've seen over and over. I've also never never ever lost a rose of any size when I pruned it after April when it was actively growing and all cool nights are over. I have lost roses from my early spring pruning, or even (trying to learn from that lesson) pruning around the time of the first flush. Again, I don't know why, I just know that I've killed a lot of roses through spring pruning. That being said, I wouldn't prune any small roses except for the reason you've listed: propogation.

seil: I've had this peace rose for about 5 or 7 years now and its always grown the same way... in a large T shape and always full of blooms along that top T line. This last year its been a real pain. I have had it tied up along a fence then moved it and tied it up along a flat straight up trellis attached to the side of our redwood shed. This year its been a real brat and not wanting to cooperate with me. Hopefully now that I've hacked it down to the stump and this new growth is taking off, it will look better. When I had it along the fence my neighbor would come out and cut it down level with the top of the fence. Every year I saw buds starting to form the next day I would come out and look to see the entire top level with the top of the fence. So my husband and I dug it up and moved it away from that fence where the neighbor couldn't reach it. ANYTHING that grows up above the top of that fence they hack right off. Yes I've asked them not to touch our things. Even balled my eyes out after they dug up my flowers from my front yard right before mothers day this year. I yelled at them through tears on mothers day... Would you PLEASE leave my yard alone!! Stop touching my things!! Mind your own property and leave ours alone!! We still hold out hope that the peace rose is going to look better next year now that its out of the reach of our hacker happy neighbor.

Tina, I'm moving to Gainesville. Calm down, not leaving FL. Amber, I lived in Ruskin then Bradenton when I first moved to FL. I know all too well that it gets cold here. Even way down here in 9b, it's been a cold winter. I've lived in this house for 14 years, and only once in the first 12 did my jatrophas freeze. Last year they froze down to the ground, and luckily came back. This year, they have lost all their leaves, and will probably lose a good bit of the tops of their limbs. I'm glad I won't be here to have to clean up all the winter dead stuff this year!