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DaveKearleyDaveKearley Posts: 130
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I have two climbing roses, both planted this year, i'm tying the rear stems to my trellis as desired but the front-growing ones, do they get pruned off?

My guess would be to just remove the growth thats heading where i don't want it but being new to all this i'm not 100% :)

The front one has grown about 4 feet in three months - is that normal?

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  • FireFire Posts: 18,138
    Could you train the wayward cane back towards the trellis?
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,142
    In order to get flowers all the way up and not just at the top, try and tie in the stems as in the pic below.
    If you let the stems just grow upward, you'll get lots of flowers right at the top and not many lower down.
    Tying the stems in a zig-zag forces the stems to produce flowers.




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  • DaveKearleyDaveKearley Posts: 130
    Ooh, thanks, i'll have to have a look at this then.
  • DaveKearleyDaveKearley Posts: 130
    Fire said:
    Could you train the wayward cane back towards the trellis?
    I could try, it's growing straight out though ;)

  • DaveKearleyDaveKearley Posts: 130
    More like this maybe??



  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,142
    That's it!
    The more horizontal you can get the stems the more flower shoots will appear from the leaf nodes.
    With long stems I usually do it in stages over a couple of weeks so that the stem doesn't kink, but even if it does, it doesn't seem to make much difference.

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • JacksGardenJacksGarden Posts: 35
    This is interesting. I'll have to try and train my young climber in a zig zag. I've just been letting it shoot up straight!
    Gardener of a driveway pot garden - flowers one side, veg the other and a car in the middle. I am so looking forward to the day we can move into a house with a bigger garden.
  • DaveKearleyDaveKearley Posts: 130
    It's all new to me :) The more I read/watch the more complicated it gets :)
  • FireFire Posts: 18,138
    edited September 2022
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  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,938
    You can train  the wayward cane growing straight out back towards the trellis, as Fire suggested, by tying it to a bamboo stick and moving the bamboo gradually (over weeks/months) backwards. Paul Zimmerman has some good videos on YouTube on the topic of training climbing roses and he shows how to do this... I am attempting it now with an awkwardly-growing climber (Tess of the d'Urbervilles).
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