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Hybrid Tea & pruning
In Ohio after my Butterfly bushes & Hybrid Teas "died" for the season.
I went out with my pruner and started cutting my Butterfly bushes back to about a foot which I believe is OK since I did it the year before with excellent results ("new" full bush came from the ground); however without thinking "doing the research first" I went to my (4) hybrid teas and did the same (chop, chop, chop)....so now there is "only" 1 foot canes coming from the plant....instead of the normal summer time 4-5 foot canes. (Unlike the butterfly bushes, this was the first season for the tea roses; therefore I don't have a reference if I should have pruned). Was I supposed to have left the canes alone (the flowers grow from these canes); or are they like the butterfly bush (new canes will raise from the ground). |
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Hybrid Tea & pruning
"dohc46" wrote in message
oups.com... In Ohio after my Butterfly bushes & Hybrid Teas "died" for the season. I went out with my pruner and started cutting my Butterfly bushes back to about a foot which I believe is OK since I did it the year before with excellent results ("new" full bush came from the ground); I have two Butterfly bushes, one large, one smallish. I've not pruned them but probably should. Thanks for the reminder. however without thinking "doing the research first" I went to my (4) hybrid teas and did the same (chop, chop, chop)....so now there is "only" 1 foot canes coming from the plant....instead of the normal summer time 4-5 foot canes. (Unlike the butterfly bushes, this was the first season for the tea roses; therefore I don't have a reference if I should have pruned). There is a real difference between "hybrid tea" and "tea" roses. If you have Hybrid Teas, refer to them as such, and don't shorten it to Tea, because that's a different rose! There are different schools of thought about pruning. I tend to do more moderate pruning but cutting back as far as you did is another method. I would recommend reading up on pruning at the ARS site www.ars.org . Many of the article writers are from your general area. There are also pruning variations due to the kind of rose, for example, climber vs bush rose, modern vs old garden rose. It would be a good idea to read up on roses, either online or some beginning book like Ortho's "All About Roses". Was I supposed to have left the canes alone (the flowers grow from these canes); or are they like the butterfly bush (new canes will raise from the ground). Are your roses grafted or on their own roots? If grafted, you shouldn't be pruning *below* the bud union since that kills the desired rose. It sounds like you pruned above the bud union so you should be ok. New canes will come from the top of the bud union. If canes are growing from below the bud union, they should be pruned at their base. Gail near San Antonio TX Zone 8 |
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