Can I ask a question? I planted a new climbing rose, Idigoletta, last autumn. It seems healthy and happy with 3 or 4 canes growing away, however it has not flowered. Is this normal for new climbers as they settle or do the flowers come on previous years growth (hence no flowers this year) or could it be blind shoots? My other new climber (Clarence house) has flowered in its first year and both my shrub roses are busy doing their thing as normal. As you can tell this is my first year growing climbers.
Nice to see a new face on this thread @Emptyheadtime I really am not in a position to say why your climber hasn't flowered but if it appears healthy then I would think all is well for now. I'm sure somebody expert will come along and maybe suggest something but I had a quick look at Indigoletta on the HelpMeFind website and some sellers' pages and can't see anything that gives a clue. My climbers have improved so much with time that I would think patience is all that is needed. Tomato feed promotes flowering so that could help.
I wonder if the sleep, creep, leap mantra works for climbers too @Emptyheadtime as well as other roses, if that's so then next year should have flowers. If I remember rightly my white climber didn't do much in its first year.
@emptyheadtime I was just looking up Indigoletta last week. What a beautiful rose. I'm a beginner but I'd wonder,
1) are you feeding it a liquid feed with too high a nitrogen content, like Miracle Gro? I did that my first year and everything got lush and verdant but blooms were sparse till I switched to Tomorite, andÂ
2) are the canes pulled sufficiently sideways (or to 45 degree angle) to encourage the development of flowering sideshoots? https://youtu.be/acpKe4r5iw0
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1) are you feeding it a liquid feed with too high a nitrogen content, like Miracle Gro? I did that my first year and everything got lush and verdant but blooms were sparse till I switched to Tomorite, andÂ
2) are the canes pulled sufficiently sideways (or to 45 degree angle) to encourage the development of flowering sideshoots?
https://youtu.be/acpKe4r5iw0