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Repeat-blooming roses: when to stop deadheading for hips?

I'm sure it depends on the rose, but is it about now that I should let most blooms form hips if I like them for ornament in the fall (in my zone)? I can't recall if some of them who are blooming now will bloom again before frost. Or maybe I should deadhead half of the blooms and see?

This might be hard to answer, lol, but if y'all know more concrete things about this, please chime in! :) I usually stop deadheading before now, but I really was losing some good blooming doing it that way.

Most of my examples are obscure (like Amaretto or My Wild Irish Rose), but say for Nearly Wild: Wait to deadhead, or will she not have another good round of blooms to form hips in time?

My hips do seem to mostly ripen nicely all winter, in case that matters.

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