Question about roses?
Question:This is the first time that I have planted rose bushes. If I pick the roses off the bushes, will more bloom or do they just bloom once during the season?
Answers:
Enjoy each blooming rose until it begins to wilt.
Then cut it off with a sharp knife or scissors. The plant will then use its energy to begin another bloom lower on the plant, at a leaf branch. Several blooms during the season.
It requires a lot of organic nutrients to form roses. They quickly use up all the nitrogen in the soil each year. This is one plant that needs fertilizing in spring and AGAIN a few weeks later.
Never use fresh manure, this is too hot. Use compost or store-bought pellets. GUANO (sea-bird droppings from South America) are very good.
In October, after a rose has wilted, cut it off. Then count down 3 leaf branches, and cut off the rose stem above the 4th leaf branch, with sharp scissors.
Stick the stem in a pot of moist soil, and cover the pot with a clear plastic bag to make a mini-greenhouse. Keep it moist, but NOT dripping. Don't let the leaves rot with too much moisture.
In 3 weeks, you should have little roots coming out of the bottom of the pot. Remove plastic bag. And you have another rose bush to plant in spring. The roots must go deeper than the pot allows in order to have a decent rose bloom.
clip rather than "pick" yes they will keep blooming. fertilizer will help this, try to use organic.
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