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Rose suckers or not.

h6510rh6510r Posts: 1
edited August 2018 in Problem solving
Can anyone please tell this rose growing novice if these are suckers on my Arthur Bell climbing rose. These are very fat and vigorous vertical growing stems. One has branched into four higher up. Please advise. This is its second year in the garden and first for flowers which were stunning  many thanks in advance  

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    With five leaflets they look OK to me. The crux is whether they are coming from below the graft line or not. If it is on its own roots, you don't have a problem, if grafted on to  a rootstock, anything from the rootsstock, below the graft line needs to be taken off.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    No, they are not suckers..  A sucker from a modern rose like that would not have any thorns on it... and the foliage would be entirely different..
    East Anglia, England
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