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Sat, Aug 16, 14 at 12:34
| I bought this Hybrid Tea rose "orange and lemons"-coloured (about 18 inches tall) when it had two buds but they've both bloomed and died away and the plant hasn't been growing since. Two months later though, it rapidly sprouted new red leaves in a matter of days but one night I saw that particular new growth pulled off, possibly eaten off by a slug :/ It's been two weeks since that happened and again, it's not growing again, do I need to prune it? the ends of some of the stems are black and skinny-like. Btw, I'm new to rose gardening. |
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| Knowing where you live would help a lot in determining when it would be right for you to prune. It's different for different climates. But I don't think this is the right time for hard pruning in most climates. If the tips were eaten off by something just snip off the tip down to the next set of 5 leaves and it should start to grow again. |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Sat, Aug 16, 14 at 13:45
| What seil said - we need to know where you are. In addition - do you have deer? If deer are nibbling it, it will not be able to get any bigger. I have deer, and all of my baby roses go into wire cages until they are large enough to survive a little grazing. Jackie |
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| I'm in Sri Lanka where the temperature can't ever go any lower than 26 C and no there're no animals in my yard because it's well fenced. The plant looks too young to prune but I'll give it a shot |
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| You don't need to prune it just take off the chewed tips down to just above a leaf set. The plant will start to grow from the leaf set area. |
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