Roses Are Blooming with Deformed Flowers - Should You Cut Them or Not?

Spring has arrived, and after longing for spring all this time, your own roses are blooming. You watch the buds every day, dreaming of seeing them bloom perfectly, but when they finally open, they turn out ugly like this. Your roses have produced deformed flowers, and you are really torn - should you cut them off or not?

This is what the rose flowers look like:

Normal roses bloom like this:

Truly, comparison brings pain. I believe many flower growers have encountered this situation too - roses producing "deformed" flowers. Some growers think, whether deformed or not, at least it bloomed, so I will keep it. Others are torn, wondering if keeping it will affect the rose's growth.

Actually, when you come across deformed flowers, you can keep them or not - it is fine either way. Keeping them does not consume much nutrients. If you find them ugly, just cut the flowers off directly. Growing into this shape, you really cannot tell if it is the correct variety anyway. If you do not like it, you can cut it.

After dealing with the deformed flowers, let this little gardener analyze for you why roses blooming at the end of March would be deformed. The first reason I can think of is the earlier cold wave. In mid-March, my area experienced two cold waves, each time with temperatures dropping below 10°C. At this time, the roses were frozen, which caused them to become deformed.

Why does freezing cause deformation? The reason is this: low temperatures cause the gibberellin content inside the flower buds to be noticeably low, while cytokinin is noticeably high. What does this cause? It means there are many petals, very densely packed, but the petals are deformed.

When caring for roses, flower growers must pay attention to the cold wave issue. It was because I was slightly careless that my roses ended up like this. I cut them and am waiting for the next flush of flowers. Flower growers should learn from this!