The more you prune roses, the more vigorously they grow: 6 pictures teach you pruning methods for every situation
Roses are ornamental, down-to-earth flowers that people love to grow, and everyone likes to keep one or several roses on a balcony or in a courtyard, which both beautifies the home and purifies the air. But some friends have found that even though they water and fertilize normally, why is it that their own roses just will not grow well? Here, Xiaojingzhi wants to point out that during the care of roses, proper pruning is also an essential step. Only proper pruning can promote branching in roses and make them more lush with branches and leaves and continuous blooms. So, in the daily care of roses, what kind of proper pruning should be done?
1. Pruning of the lower branches and leaves
The branches and leaves at the bottom of the rose will no longer bloom. If they are kept, besides only wasting nutrients for nothing, they will also affect the plant's ventilation and light penetration, and even water accumulation can trigger pests and diseases. So do not hesitate over the branches and leaves at the bottom of the rose, cut them all off.
2. Pruning of withered flowers
After a rose has finished blooming, if the spent flowers are not cleaned up in time, not only will they waste unnecessary nutrients and affect the development of the next flower buds, but they can also easily rot and thus trigger fungi, so the spent flowers after blooming must be cleaned up in time.
3. Pruning of branches after it grows into a shrub
When the rose has already grown into a small shrub, you also need to pay attention to regular and proper pruning. Generally, prune in spring each year, when the frost period is about to end and the rose is about to enter its growth period. The degree of pruning is to cut off just 1 cm above a branch.
4. Pruning of roses at the seedling stage
When a rose is still a seedling, it often also develops flower buds. For a seedling to develop flower buds consumes = an enormous amount of nutrients, which is extremely unfavorable to growth, so do not be reluctant to part with them; you must resolutely cut them off.
5. Points to note when pruning
The scissors used for pruning roses must be sharp and need to be pre-soaked in alcohol for disinfection. If you have pruned diseased leaves and branches, you also need to disinfect again before pruning other potted plants.
When pruning roses, cut above the branch node, and the cut should be made at an angle. The purpose of the angled cut is that when watering, water droplets flow away easily, avoiding water accumulation at the cut and thus triggering fungal infection.
6. Other points to note
If you are growing large-flowered roses, generally one flowering branch will grow several flower buds, and at this time if you want it to bloom larger, you should leave only one of the most robust flower buds on a flowering branch and prune off all the rest. Medium-flowered and small-flowered roses do not need this.
In short, pruning roses is a very important task in rose care. Roses grow more vigorously the more they are pruned, so you must not be reluctant to prune. Only proper and reasonable pruning can make roses grow healthier and healthier!
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