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suckers

parvinkaurpparvinkaurp Posts: 69
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I got climbing roses got suckers what can do?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Can we see a photo please?

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  • linda.sowdenlinda.sowden Posts: 1
    Are these suckers ?? This is a climber 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hello @linda.sowden  and welcome to the forum 😊 

    No I don’t think they’re suckers. They look like healthy new canes … next year they’ll produce the side shoots which will carry lots more blooms. 

    Now is the time, while they’re young and pliable, to train them gently towards the horizontal and tie them to the supports, so that the shape of the plant is like a fan. 

    😊 

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I always thought that if the rose had 5 leaves and the new growth from the ground had 7, that they were suckers.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My understanding is that some rose types vary and counting leaflets is unreliable, but I may be wrong. 
    Perhaps @marlorena or @Nollie are around to help?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I agree with that Dove, I have heard that,  maybe they do get different types of leaves on the same plant then.  I’m not really a rose grower,  just a few popped in the borders. 
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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Suckers come from the root stock on or below the graft (the knobbly bit that joins the root stock to the selected rose variety). A sucker is always light green and nearly thornless, it’s never tinged with red, so @Dovefromabove is correct that Linda’s photo shows healthy new growth, not a sucker 😊

    It’s also correct that number of leaves is an unreliable method of telling the difference, as the selected rose variety often has seven leaves, but this can be five too. The common root stock, Laxa, more often than not has five leaves per set, but again, this varies @Lyn. It’s more the fact that the canes, thorns and leaves look different, so it’s a case of learning to spot these differences. More tricky if the selected variety also has completely green new shoots - as is the case with some older or wild hybrid roses.

    It has to be said, I have never actually had a sucker on any of my 50+ roses!

    Lots of previous threads on suckers, this one explains in more detail:

    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1042855/how-to-identify-suckers-on-roses

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