Forum home› Problem solving
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Climbing Rose Problems

majilhawmajilhaw Posts: 4
in Problem solving
I have two climbing Roses trained up a trellis which were planted about 5 years ago and they have flowered until this year. I did prune them back earlier this andI felt I had not overdone it and I left three quite strong shoots about 18 ins long.
This year although the shoots look healthy enough they have very little foliage which have not grown on or progressed.The soil looks clear of any beetles or insects and the stalks look quite green and do not appear to be infected. I have kept the roses well watered and I fed them rose feed and tomato liquid feed early on.

Posts

  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    You don't say how tall they were before.
    I'm no rose expert but if you chopped me off at the knees it would take a while to recover.
    Some of my roses aren't growing very well but I've just put it down don't be changeable weather.
  • majilhawmajilhaw Posts: 4
    I will not dig them up just yet but my other Hybrid Tea roses in rose beds are doing quite well despite as you say the very strange weather conditions.
    I probably reduced the growth by about 50% which is no more than I would do each year when pruning my normal roses and which appears to do them no harm but perhaps climbers are more sensitive.
    i just found it strange the way you will see on the photo that the foliage just appears but ceases to grow/flourish and remains stunted and here we are in mid July.

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I can't see a photo, but cutting a climbing rose down to 18 inches sounds much too severe. When deer did that to my climbing roses they became very weak. I had to move them to a deer free zone and they eventually recovered. You should prune side shoots of climbing roses to a few bus but not the main stems to only 18".
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    Hi. Paul Zimmerman videos on YouTube very helpful about retraining and shaping climbers to maximise flowering. Have you been watering and feeding it?
  • majilhawmajilhaw Posts: 4
    Thank you. Will check out You Tube but normally refers to Pests or Fungus problems which I could not identify. Yes I have done the normal feeding and watering so not a problem there I would have thought.
  • majilhawmajilhaw Posts: 4
    Thank you Busy Lizzie
    In trying to reshape the climbers which had 4 main shoots I removed 1 entirely and reduced the other 3. The climbers had become somewhat leggy but it seems that I have done damage and I  will have to hope they will recover for next year.,
     
Sign In or Register to comment.