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is it silly?
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:19:58 GMT, torgo
wrote: , I'm not sure if this guidance is always the best. It might depend on the rose. I know one thing - if I had cut the first flush of the Bel Amis, I would have definitely been cheated out of about 20 blooms, and I'm not sure if there would have been much benefit. Having said that, I'll have to evaluate how vigorous the plants are going to be in the spring. I have no absolute way to judge them against a control group, but I think it will be pretty apparent if their root structure suffered because of excessive blooming the first year depriving the plant of energy to the roots. Just my .02. My experience has been that it does indeed depend on the rose - not the variety but the individual plant. If you're lucky and get one with a halfway decent root system, let it bloom away. But if you get one with the roots hacked to nothing, then a full first bloom flush can easily be the death of the plant. Yeah, I sort of missed your comment about basing your advice on plants with poor root systems. Sorry to hear about the Diors. The thing is, I always read the advice that every rose should be deadheaded "at birth", even potted roses. Maybe I misunderstood the advice, but I've decided to only take blooms if there's a first single bloom. I did that with Portland from Glendorra and I'm glad I did. Of course, that plant came as a very small twiglet with a root system about the size of a walnut (it was a "banded" rose). So, I guess I followed your advice after all... |
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