Freckles wrote:

Two of my tea roses have too many canes coming from the middle of the
root stock.

Would now be a good time to prune those canes out, or should I wait
until late winter?

i'm not sure of what you
are saying here if the growth
is coming from above or
below the graft union.

if it is from below the
graft union trim it off
as soon as it appears.

from above, follow the
advice Mr Ross and Mr Boson
have posted.

if you want to do some
grafting of your own, read
up on it and give it a try.
it's fun. free root stock
if you get those shoots
to root themselves after
trimming them off. and
usually some free grafting
shoots when pruning later.

not all efforts succeed,
but those that do are very
satisfying in the primal
sense of having created
something like Dr. Frankenstein
but improved since it looks and
smells better.


songbird (ok, ok,
i have an odd sense of humor