Welcome, and congratulations! Listen, not EVERY rose requires dis budding to mature. Some are perfectly vigorous enough to flower and still grow. However, some definitely are NOT. Many own root Teas, Climbing Teas and particularly yellow Tea-Noisettes and some Chinas can take forever to develop and mature into the plants you expect them to be. Permitting them to flower only slows their development. Weak, stingy growers such as Austin's Dove; many of the earlier gray, brown and green roses; many of the Tea-like earlier HTs can also drag their feet, producing begrudging inches of growth. Permitting them to flower will slow them down greatly, too. Then, you have some more modern climbers, such as Kordes' Rosarium Uetersen, Renae and my Annie Laurie McDowell which will sit and flower like a blooming weed while refusing to climb. If you want to push these to climb, you pinch off the buds, forcing that energy into pushing elongated canes from the plants in their efforts to bloom again. Budding these particular types will speed up their development quite a bit, but they still benefit from dis budding to push growth. Own root versions of them are significantly slower to develop. It's with these that dis budding provides the greatest benefit. It is quite possible your roses won't require dis budding to develop into the plants you desire, in the time frame you have in mind. Whether they will or not, they very likely will mature into what you hope for faster if you don't let them flower. Whether you permit flowering as they desire; permit only some of the flowers to mature and open or simply continue dis budding them until they are the size you want them to be is up to you. Enjoy whatever flowers you want to, but keep in mind that if they are taking longer than you hoped to develop into the plants you expected or desired, removing the flowers to force growth should help you get what you want, closer to when you want it. Kim

How about some nice organic black beans or organic pinto beans. Soak them overnight first then drain the next morning and when you have a day off then cook in water with onion and fresh garlic. When you have cooked them at a simmer for 1 1/2 hours pour all of it including the peppers in the crock pot. Usually the directions are on the back of the bag of beans. I cook mine with my red carribeans but serranos would be great and I also have a red cherry hot but they are not red yet, I am sure I will try them in some beans:) Keep up the great work in the garden. Yummy:) If it is a real hot pepper like the carribean I take out the seeds and throw at least 2 in whole and 1 cut up. Dusty

Hi,Harmony, Actually my camera is pretty old, Olympus E500, I got it about 6 years ago. I guess the light/weather is very important to take the close-up macro picture. You might need to shoot many and pick the best 1 or 2 from them. lol

Those photo's are marvelous so much better than many rose books avalible ! It makes our need for a didital cammera even worse. hope when we get it we do half as good. Still haven't mentioned if there was a perfume? Be cautious! roses are additive, 2 to 3 wks ago we had about 15 roses in the ground, now have close to 50! and we'er still waiting on 2 bare root deliveries. Thrips wife Anne