How do I encourage basal breaks?
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Comments (7)Alfalfa meal, which you also get at the feed store, is even easier because you just spread it around the roses and water it in. It's amazing how quickly I've seen results with this in regard to leaf, cane and bud growth. The one I buy is specifically for plants, with a label that tells you how much to apply. It's the only fertilizer I use and I love it. Cheap too! Ingrid...See MoreWest. Wa Z8 "Topping a Basal Break"
Comments (2)I'll wait, then. To encourage it to grow more to the side than the vertical, I've secured it gently to a slightly curved length of branch pruned from another shrub, but I may need to add a bit more curve - say a degree or two, and use a longer curved branch. Thank you....See MoreWhat do you do to encourage basal shoots? (Other than applying Epsom S
Comments (23)Bart: I do not know if there would be anywhere near my home where they sold horse food and could buy some sack of alfalfa (dry grass cut). I do not know if dry would be effective for this end of the basal shoots. I guess so. But two years ago I put as a padding of the orchard terraces spikes of dry cereal and cut into small pieces. It was terrible, thousands of seeds began to germinate and all the vegetable patches were filled with buds. I'm afraid to use alfalfa in this format for possible outbreaks. My desire is to find it in the form of a pellet. And while I find who through the web you could buy, sell in amounts that it is impossible to take even in the case of a very large garden as mine. lxxfcp: Thank you very much for taking the trouble to look for the link. Yes, fortunately I was able to open it. But using the Google translator ... ajajjajajajja is amazing, translated into Spanish, you can not understand anything. By the way, has come into my head what you should read what I write once google translated my Spanish to English jajajajajajja must be horrible to read me. As I have suffered when visiting that page. Thanks anyway. Really thank you very much!! I keep saying in any case that I think that it is easier to do with very young plants. Otherwise, the rods become very rigid, very woody and I doubt that some of my shrub roses like that resist bending without breaking some reach. The images of that link are of a climber. In that case, yes, I see it more possible because many climbing roses emit flexible buds. nikthegreek: I'm sorry to disagree with you. I am convinced that the grafted roses, take much longer and do so to a lesser extent to emit basal shoots. On the contrary, the fact of burying the knot or graft point, as Bart says, encourages the rosebush to issue its own roots on the rootstock. Having a good sized root ball made up of its own roots undoubtedly facilitates the emission of these basal shoots. Years ago, when my rosebushes planted with the graft point on ground level or my rosebushes did not emit enough, also they took enough to form basal shoots. On the contrary, in this garden, where all my roses (about 120/130) are buried their grafting point, most have basal shoots. In addition, these buds appear very early, it is not necessary that the rose be very adult. Yes, I agree with you that the fact of eliminating the oldest buds encourages the rose to emit new ones from the ground to replace the eliminated one. In any case, I think it is really important to make things easier for our roses to form a large root ball. A well-fed plant, healthy and with a good root system, will undoubtedly have fewer problems to come to sprout new basal shoots. Thank you very much everyone for your interesting opinions. I am very happy for your participation....See MoreHow to encourage basil breaks
Comments (10)FWIW, if David is using his phone he may not be able to type and so uses voice recognition and in that case probably can't edit. I can't type on Houzz at all when using my phone....See Moredublinbay z6 (KS)
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