Climbing roses...

[armjr]

I have precious little experience with roses, but with the greenhouse up, I started sticking any pruned branch in a pot with rootone. I also dug up some climbing roses that were coming up from an established plant. The cuttings are coming along and I got about a 50% survival rate so far. Of the five that I dug up, all lived and seem to be thriving. A couple of them have put up a long shoot, I suppose wanting to climb… after all… These have been transplanted for 4 months now.

My question is; Should I prune back that shoot to force more root growth or leave it for leaf growth?

Thanks for indulging my inexperience...

Alan

 

[oneeye]

No don't prune the top of a climbing rose, allow it to ramble. Its important to stabilize the canes using trellis. After the rose flowers die you can dead-head the flowers but never top a climbing rose. Keep us post and thanks for sharing your work with us.