Prune Rose Twice During Blooming Season for Continuous, Big, Vivid Blooms

Roses are relatively easy to grow and their blooms are very beautiful. Many people keep a pot of them. After your potted rose blooms at home, you need to learn how to prune it. Proper pruning encourages strong new shoots, and the plant will keep blooming. Below we bring you the pruning methods for the rose blooming season!

Pruning methods during the rose blooming season:

(1). For pruning roses during the blooming season, cut back the flowered stems, generally choosing to cut at the middle-lower part of the branch. This can encourage new shoots to sprout, and the retained branches will also grow vigorously, helping flower buds to appear and blooms to open earlier.

(2). Pruning flowered stems also needs to be done according to the situation. Generally, strong vigorous branches are cut short and cut later, while weak short branches are cut high and cut first, following the principle of suppressing the strong and supporting the weak, which also makes blooming more uniform. The length should not exceed 15cm. It is not recommended to keep sprouted flowered stems; you also need to consider the crown shape. After blooming, cut them off from the base, keeping 2~3 branches.

(3). For potted roses, it is not recommended to keep too many flowers, as the blooms will not be very large. Blooming requires a lot of nutrients; with too many flowers, they compete with each other for nutrients and the blooms will be relatively weak and small. Generally, 3 flowers are enough; otherwise, the nutrient supply will be insufficient and it will also affect the next bloom.

(4). After budding, select and keep about 3 strong buds, and the others need to be thinned out. When blooming, you should also promptly remove the axillary buds on the upper part of the flowered stems. Pruning in this way ensures that the flowers in each pot are big and vivid and guarantees the next bloom.