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| 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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| If the goal is hips, I would stop deadheading now. Just guesstimating, I'd allow two months after deadheading for hips to set and a third month for them to swell. I believe they would need to be charged with a certain amount of carbs before they would be able to continue ripening during dormancy. |
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| If you're just looking for ornamentation in the garden then now would be fine. If you were looking for seeds to grow you should have left some to go to hips back in June. They take between 90 and 120 days to ripen fully. Most hips will turn red or orange when they ripen but some never change color at all. Just depends on the variety. |
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| I'd stop now, esp since the weather is anybody's guess. |
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- Posted by meredith_e 7B Piedmont NC (My Page) on Fri, Aug 22, 14 at 1:25
| Thank y'all! I won't deadhead any more this year, then. Seil, that's interesting about growing them on for seeds. I hadn't thought of that. I do mostly like them for fall/winter ornament and for the wildlife to eat, but I'm glad you pointed it out. |
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| Down here, we are still in the summer duldrums, winter arrives in December and the roses' Fall bloomage is weeks away so I would continue. |
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