Rose bottom is bushy and full of roses and canes long, should I prune?
C Curry USA zone 6B
7 years ago
I have a mature red rose bush which is very full at the bottom and about 3' diameter, with plentiful blooms. There are about a dozen canes towering through the bush which have no flowers or even buds. One of them is well over 6' tall. Should I prune any or all of these canes? Will they eventually bud?
I can't say what the rose is, just that it is a very hardy variety and is common and hardy in my 6B area. I am hoping it will eventually look like this; the blooms look very similar:
I recently pruned the early blooms, but the bottom was very full of blooms. Here is how it looks this morning (the highest canes are over 6' tall):
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C Curry USA zone 6B
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Comments (11)Using epsom salt will encourage new basals only if her potting soil is deficient in magnesium. Which it may or may not be. If it were in the ground I would not recommend epsom salt as NorCal soils are generally not deficient in magnesium. I must say having gardened all around the SF Bay and now in Puget Sound area, Santa Clara is paradise for growing roses. The soil and the climate are perfect. The price of real estate and the resulting size of gardens are a different matter ... I get way more space up here than I ever had down there, and a shorter irrigation season. No, the best thing to encourage basal breaks, is to encourage good healthy growth, and give the rose enough time. Minimum three years from planting. Up here I wouldn't bother with a two cane wonder, our growing season is too cool and too short for a rose to recover from that. Hybrid teas are only just now leafing out from spring pruning up here, after all freezing down to the ground last winter, and you only get two, maybe three, bloom flushes, so a one or two cane bush just isn't going to grow very much. In Santa Clara, two canes is fine! it'll have plenty of time to grow, and no Old Man Winter to kill off what grew over the summer. How long has Bolero been in the pot? potting soil breaks down over a couple years and has to be replaced....See MoreHow many canes should a climbing rose have?
Comments (6)We, here in Ontario, are forever reminded of how B.C. has no snow....you don't have to shovel rain. But, while snow is not thought of as something to admire---many people do wait for it and cant wait to get to the slopes...B.C. knows all about that what with Whistler raking in all the tourist dollars. Roses anywhere, everywhere, have common problems, from disease to winds, especially winter winds, that can dry out a plant in no time. So do put up a barrier to how winds might confront your rose bush. So too can winds dry out the soil--so make sure the plant goes into winter with lots of water--but not too much, roses don't like wet feet. Mound the plants up at least 12" with what you feel proper....soil, leaves, boughs...and don't remove the protection until all chance of frost has passed in the spring. Don't get antsy about a spell of warm weather in March which turns nasty again and have your plants succumb to the weather. Make sure the canes are tied together securely and to the trellis, post or fence you have them on. In the spring, separate the canes by how your hand and fingers are splayed out. That is how you want to have the canes grow and gives the best chance of sunlight to all parts of the plant. Don't do major pruning at this time --remove what is weak or damaged but otherwise, leave pruning for the spring. Open wounds on ends of canes can invite disease and freezes....See Moreshould i prune this desert rose?
Comments (3)Hi, I just cut all my back again. I do it every spring because I like the look better of shorter stems and it also encourages the caudex to grow larger. I just cut where ever and the plants figures it out. I usually cut 1-2" above the caudex. I have always read that the stems will not form a caudex. Some people on here disagree but all the experts that I have read say otherwise. I would keep the soil very airy with a lot of perlite. I personally use semi-hydroponics which has worked great with all my caudiciforms. They like quite a bit of water in the summer....See MoreRoundup damage to large roses: should I prune? Can I add more roses?
Comments (13)I think there is some bacteria that will help get rid of the chemical they will absorb it and others will eat them. The ameoba and parameciams and protozoa that we learned about in 9th grade. Eventually the microbes will ameliorate. I like that word ameliorate the soil. It's your garden. Put what you want there. Maybe if you take some good soil from a place that you know grows good plants and sprinkle it on top it will rain down the good microbes. Maybe some good Organic fertilizers at the plant nursery will be good to sprinkle and make the soil good again. Don't they have something called starter fertilizers? To get the good things going again? I think rain eventually takes it away and it dissapates in the air and water and water vapor and the microbes....See More
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