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..the new ROSE season 2020...

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  • poppyfield64poppyfield64 Posts: 332
    @Marlorena not a spider.  Looks like some type of weevil.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    aah. a weevil. thank you @poppyfield64
    .. let me go look up weevils... 
    East Anglia, England
  • poppyfield64poppyfield64 Posts: 332
    @Marlorena I'm googling too.  Who knew there were so many different types  :D
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    @pianoplayer, I don't think that's a dumb question at all, I have been wondering which bits on a climber are the main stem as when a bare root rose arrives it has obviously been cut across the two or three bare stems it arrives with. As with most things in my life, I operate on a wait and see what happens basis but I would like to know if that's the right thing to do. 
  • KatsaKatsa Posts: 278
    edited July 2020
    So, I've tried to find the really helpful picture that @Marlorena posted of the trough she grows Lichfield Angel in, but I can't find it anywhere. If I did want to grow roses in pots, what's the min size? @celcius_kkw as pot aficionado, are there any that you recommend?

    I've found some Elho planters which are tapered that have diameters of 39 x 33 or 47 x 40; or straight with diameters of 47 x 44. Are these too small? I would probably keep the roses in them for 1-2 years before planting out. 

  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    Hi @Suesyn exactly! My bare root from DA was a Y-shaped twig, that has produced four new canes, each of which has a cluster of flowers at the end. If I cut off the flowers, then that will surely encourage laterals? I think I am going to adopt your `wait and see` approach, too, and leave them - unless someone advises something different  :)
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    @pianoplayer, I tried to find YouTube videos on how to treat a newly planted climber but all I could find told you what to do with established plants, helpful when you get to the pruning stage but not so much for new plants.
    I did see one which said that if you prune a main cane accidently you can just select another cane to be the main cane so presumably when new shoots come up from the base these in effect become the main cane
  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    @Suesyn, indeed, loads of helpful advice on pruning mature climbers, renovating ones that have gone wrong etc but nothing about brand new ones. Marlorena is always saying roses are easy, so I am trying very hard not to worry too much about it, but being a natural worrier, I am not finding it easy...
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