A couple of questions. Do you know the name of your climber? Is it a repeat blooming rose or a once blooming rose? That can make some difference in pruning techniques. Either way you can still just carefully remove the spent blooms individually. I do that all the time on my cluster flowered roses. Or you can wait until the entire cluster is spent and dead head just above a set of leaves below the entire cluster, Either way petals will drop, no way around that, lol!

Any rose that blooms in clusters like that I usually deadhead behind the cluster. Sometimes I'll clip right back of where the blooming cluster starts - i.e. if your fingers and thumb were the cluster of blooms cut off at the start of your wrist. I also don't hesitate to cut a bit further if convenient for a climber since I'm only going to get up on a ladder occasionally so I am not picky about the details of pruning when I do so. If I feel like taking a cane half off because I don't want to pick away at every bloom or cluster, the rose won't care. Just make sure to keep as much of the main cane as you can, bending the laterals that are blooming sideways so they'll put out more laterals.

An even easier and less scientific pruning methods for clusters is to grab ahold of the cluster with your gloved hand and twist/snap it a little till the whole unit comes off in your hand. Usually the place where the cluster joins the cane is a slim attachment so it's not hard to separate it if you're lazy like me.

Bottom line is if you have a repeat blooming climber it's more likely to repeat bloom if you can take off most of the dead heads, but the method doesn't really matter all that much in my experience.

Cynthia

Seil, the name of my rose is "Amadeus" Not certain but I think it blooms twice. I'll check. As always, I appreciate all your help.

Cynthia, thanks for all that wonderful information. Very helpful. Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours outside deadheading and cutting back a few lateral canes. Geeze, I sure hope I did it right. Anyway, it looks a lot more tidy. After I finished, I cleaned up the bed, cleaned all my tools and put them away. I was pretty tired after that. lol
I still have a bit more work to do on them but it's raining today. With a few laterals still needing to be cut back, I'm going to use your tip on clipping back to where the cluster begins. I also removed some really skinny later canes back to about 6" from the main cane. Hope that will be okay. I also got rid of a few leaves where some bugs had made holes in them. Keep your fingers crossed for more blooms. Again, thank you for all your help.

Awwwe, thanks so much for your expertise as well as your encouragement Cynthia. I just learned a few more things from you today! I'll let you know how if I get some new blooms.

I do climbers quite a bit and noticed when I just deadheaded behind the clusters that the stems harden and die anyways so I always cut back to the first 5 leaf cluster (depends on rose) that way I have a new shoot coming out right above the leaf. I was scared to do it at first but it actually seems to grow and bloom better and faster. Just my 2 cents

Great idea monta...Thanks for sharing that with me. I'm still deadheading today. I have lots of roses. That is a lot for me. Let's see...I have Amadeus, Polka, Above and Beyond, Florentina, Brothers Grimm, Julia Childs, and Westerly. So far, they are all doing great but I'm still learning how to deadhead. lol