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| Hello, I'm brand new to this site! I have 23 roses in our garden, and like every Rose gardener I have learned from every plant along the way....my "love song" floribunda is a 2 yr old bush and always makes the most beautiful large blooms, all season long....last year..actually well into the end of Oct, here I. Chicago!!! She was the first one this spring to start giving me stunning flowers this season. I adore her. I had to go out of town for 4 weeks and left the rose garden for my husband to take care of. June 23rd I pruned most everybody down so he didn't have too much to do but water and keep an eye on leaves etc etc...he is great with our rosé garden but works a lot and I wanted to make sure his extra long days at work didn't include all the hrs I spend fussing in the garden daily... When I returned 4 weeks later 98% of our rose garden looked great:) BUT The love song had grown very tall long canes that had no buds and looked very strange for the type and shape this plant is actually supposed to be, so I waited a week and then pruned it down again. So that is only 2 major pruning back this summer, June 23 and then the long canes again August 2nd All the roses in my garden are back to their healthy size but Love song just wants to grow like its a beanstalk looking for giants beyond the clouds and make NO buds at all!! It looks healthy as can be, lots of leaves,and this time even with the canes too high up again-it is more "bushy" like the floribunda should be in form..it is still taller however than it should be...but I just kept waiting for the nice red growth to maybe turn into a bud and nothing happens. HELP??? There is no disease on any leaves, like I said it seems happy as can be in there(minus the fact it's not being a ROSE lol! ) The canes grow faster than anything I have ever seen. |
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| I hate to say it, but that sounds like Dr. Huey taking over. Is this a grafted plant? Can you trace the canes to above or below the graft? |
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| Buford's suggestion sounds like the problem. I hope not, but it's the only plausible explanation. Kim |
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| We really need some pictures to be sure of anything. Pictures of the whole plant, the base of the plant and the canes you are concerned about would help. If it is Dr. Huey there are some things you can do to save it but we need to know for sure that's what's happening. |
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- Posted by kentucky_rose Z6 KY (My Page) on Wed, Aug 27, 14 at 19:53
| Do the leaves look different now versus when you had blooms? |
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- Posted by farmerduck (My Page) on Thu, Aug 28, 14 at 1:06
| Thanks to a poster here, I found that reason my roses don't bloom much is rose midge. It does not sound like that is your problem, but just in case... |
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