Cut off all buds & blooms on young rose?
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Comments (6)Not all deer repellents are effective to protect roses. Deer love roses. The only thing they love even more is the daylily buds. I tried many different repellents and for me the only effective one was Liquid Fence. It smells horrible, but is effective. You have to respray it every 5-6 days and after every rain. Don't believe any claims on any repellent that it can be applied once a month or even less frequently. The new growth and buds have to be constantly resprayed to keep deer off. No freiendly solution, if fence is not an option. Olga...See MoreDo you cut flower buds off of your annuals??
Comments (6)Some plants, not all, respond to cutting back by an explosion of new growth. Pruning is, after all, more of a growth promoting activity than a reduction. As a professional grower, timely cutting back is essential to produce a full pot exploding in flowers and promising buds. Petunias, among many other species, respond emphatically to being pruned; any grower who doesn't actively follow such horticultural practices is missing an essential step. Now that I simply tend to my own gardens, snipping, disbudding, and pruning is simply a routine part of gardening....See MoreNewly planted peony with a bud: should I cut it off?
Comments (2)Just a few weeks ago I was asking similar question on another forum, but my newly planted (fall 2015 ) plants have quite a few buds - 2 to 7 with everything in between in fact on different ones. One bud is perfectly fine, a few one are fine as well, just cut the flowers off right after they are done so they do not produce seed. I previously had plants with as many as 3 and they were fine afterwards. I got rid of some of my buds by the way - the most numerous ones....See MoreBest to cut flowers/buds off when fall-planting?
Comments (10)I guess I would like to see a scientific article confirming the very common (and admittedly reasonable!) idea that a plant diverts energy from growing its roots in order to produce flowers and that it's just a one-way transfer of energy. It makes complete sense, but I'd like to see more of the botany and biology of it. I'm just not 100% convinced that producing flowers is a net loss to the roots, end of story. I wonder if it's possible that any growth process of the plant also grows the roots, and that there are other variables involved. But maybe I'm completely wrong. Clearly growing the leaves sends energy to the root, but maybe growing flowers just results in a net loss to the roots, and that is the end of the story. Maybe I'm just self-justifying because I want to see flowers on my plants -- yes, even the first few months after I plant them in September! I just can't stand the idea of cutting them off as soon as I put them in the ground. :-(((...See Moreingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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