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Deadheading roses query
Hi folks,
Just me with yet another gardening question. I am learning loads by posting and reading all the threads on this site and I swear that being on here is a far quicker way of learning than it is reading any books! Anyway onto my next query... I have always dead headed my roses and not really sure if there is a point to doing this or even if I am supposed to do it. My partner told me a few years ago that you were supposed to do it, so I have continued religiously ever since. Yesterday he denied ever telling me to do it and now I am left wondering if I imagined it, or if he is going prematurely senile! Anyhow the point to this thread is that I was wondering if I should continue doing it and if it has any benefits etc? Can anybody please share any info? Many thanks Gail |
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Deadheading roses query
"tom&barbara" wrote in message oups.com... Hi folks, Just me with yet another gardening question. I am learning loads by posting and reading all the threads on this site and I swear that being on here is a far quicker way of learning than it is reading any books! Anyway onto my next query... I have always dead headed my roses and not really sure if there is a point to doing this or even if I am supposed to do it. My partner told me a few years ago that you were supposed to do it, so I have continued religiously ever since. Yesterday he denied ever telling me to do it and now I am left wondering if I imagined it, or if he is going prematurely senile! Anyhow the point to this thread is that I was wondering if I should continue doing it and if it has any benefits etc? Can anybody please share any info? Many thanks Gail Deadheading Roses or any other plant before it sets fruit, fools the plant into thinking that it has failed to reproduce and rewards you with yet more flowers. |
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Deadheading roses query
tom&barbara wrote:
Hi folks, Just me with yet another gardening question. I am learning loads by posting and reading all the threads on this site and I swear that being on here is a far quicker way of learning than it is reading any books! Anyway onto my next query... I have always dead headed my roses and not really sure if there is a point to doing this or even if I am supposed to do it. My partner told me a few years ago that you were supposed to do it, so I have continued religiously ever since. Yesterday he denied ever telling me to do it and now I am left wondering if I imagined it, or if he is going prematurely senile! Anyhow the point to this thread is that I was wondering if I should continue doing it and if it has any benefits etc? Can anybody please share any info? Many thanks Gail It's all to do with hormones! If you leave the dead head hormone flow from the flowered shoot continues, the plant thinks it has done its job and stops flowering. Cut off the dead head (preferably with a good length of shoot) and the plant thinks, "bugger, I've not flowered yet!" so sends out another flowering shoot. |
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Deadheading roses query
I have always dead headed my roses and not really sure if there is a point to doing this or even if I am supposed to do it. My partner told me a few years ago that you were supposed to do it, so I have continued religiously ever since. Yesterday he denied ever telling me to do it and now I am left wondering if I imagined it, or if he is going prematurely senile! snip Deadheading is a very pleasant job to do in the cool and quiet of the evening, just pottering around the garden, it hardly seems like a job. As the others have explained it does good. kate |
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Deadheading roses query
tom&barbara writes
Hi folks, Just me with yet another gardening question. I am learning loads by posting and reading all the threads on this site and I swear that being on here is a far quicker way of learning than it is reading any books! Anyway onto my next query... I have always dead headed my roses and not really sure if there is a point to doing this or even if I am supposed to do it. My partner told me a few years ago that you were supposed to do it, so I have continued religiously ever since. Yesterday he denied ever telling me to do it and now I am left wondering if I imagined it, or if he is going prematurely senile! Anyhow the point to this thread is that I was wondering if I should continue doing it and if it has any benefits etc? Can anybody please share any info? Theory is that a) it stops energy going into fruit production b) it encourages a second flush (especially if you remove a few inches of stem back to a decent bud point) c) some roses don't drop their petals very well and dead flowers look tatty. It depends what sort of roses you grow. If you're growing species roses which don't have a repeat flowering, for example, deadheading is a waste of time from that point of view and deprives of a crop of beautiful hips. -- Kay |
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Deadheading roses query
"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" writes
Deadheading Roses or any other plant before it sets fruit, fools the plant into thinking that it has failed to reproduce and rewards you with yet more flowers. That's not a universal rule! I defy you to get extra flowers off a daffodil that way ;-) -- Kay |
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Thank you for all the replies. I will continue!
Deadheading is a very pleasant job to do in the cool and quiet of the evening, just pottering around the garden, it hardly seems like a job. As the others have explained it does good. kate Kate, I have to agree ^^^^^^ I love deadheading it is a very relaxing job and I admit to enjoying it, as you say, 'in the cool and quiet of the evening'. :-) regards Gail |
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"K" wrote in message ... "Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" writes Deadheading Roses or any other plant before it sets fruit, fools the plant into thinking that it has failed to reproduce and rewards you with yet more flowers. That's not a universal rule! I defy you to get extra flowers off a daffodil that way ;-) -- Kay OK cleva buga:-) It works with dafs and tulips --but you do have to wait for next year. |
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Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
OK cleva buga:-) It works with dafs and tulips --but you do have to wait for next year. Indeed. The Spalding flower parade was originally created to use up the flower heads cut off in the bulb fields, so that the sufars would be used to make the bulb grow, not set seeds. |
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In article , K
writes Theory is that a) it stops energy going into fruit production b) it encourages a second flush (especially if you remove a few inches of stem back to a decent bud point) c) some roses don't drop their petals very well and dead flowers look tatty. It depends what sort of roses you grow. If you're growing species roses which don't have a repeat flowering, for example, deadheading is a waste of time from that point of view and deprives of a crop of beautiful hips. I think that the two lovely climbing roses in my garden don't have a second flowering. But, weheter for them or other roses, I've always wondered exactly where to dead head. Just the head and a centimetre or two of stalk, or further back (eg, beyond the split in the stalk where multiple heads come off)? -- regards andyw |
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Deadheading roses query
newsb wrote:
I've always wondered exactly where to dead head. Just the head and a centimetre or two of stalk, or further back (eg, beyond the split in the stalk where multiple heads come off)? I don't think it really matters much: the objective is to remove the fruiting body, after all. Any other advice will be about the resultant appearance and the opportunity for disease to get in. |
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