When can I cut my roses? I have a fewbuds just beginning to open up. I want to cut them and enjoy them?

indoors. I can recall some sort of rule like never cut below a 3 leaf cluster? They are "Kennedy" hybrid tea roses. Thanks in advance!

When can I cut my roses? I have a fewbuds just beginning to open up. I want to cut them and enjoy them?
Proper rose care is never "nonsense". Enjoying the beautiful flowers during the spring and summer and then pruning out the dead limbs at fall is all thats needed. Cut on the diagonal as soon as you have a few open flowers and put them into water. Any unopen buds will open inside and perfume your home with lovely rose scent.
Reply:I love the hybrid tea roses. Their colors are wonderful! Cutting encourages flowering, either more blooms or larger blooms, and is essential to keep modern rose varieties blooming repeatedly all summer long. Repeat blooming roses such as floribunda and hybrid tea roses will flower continuously until the first frost. Make a diagonal cut just above the next five or seven-leaf branch down on the stem, as soon as you have cut the roses put the stem into water, don't let it dry out. Putting it in water immediately enable it to continue drawing moisture up to the bloom and prevents wilting.


If your blooms wilt before all have opened, recut the stems on a diagonal. Cutting should be done with a sharp knife or razor knife as they cut without bruising the delicate capillaries that draw in the water. Scizzors while handy and safe often crush the stem at the cut and prevent it from taking in water. You can find further info here at the site below.
Reply:Cutting rose flowers is in itself an important cultural


operation. Improper cutting can injure the plant and


decrease its vigor.


It probably is best if you do not cut any flowers during


the first season of bloom. If early flowers are not cut,


the plants usually develop into large bushes by fall.


Some flowers may be cut at that time. If you do cut


flowers during the first season, cut very short stems


only. Removing foliage with long-stemmed flowers robs the


plant of its food-manufacturing capacity, which reduces


growth potential and subsequent flower yield. Even when


plants are well established, cut stems only as long as


necessary. Be sure that at least two leaves remain


between the cut and the main stem."
Reply:I have those at home - if they are blooming, they can be cut. When you are ready to put them on bowl, cut the stem at an angle and you have about 10 seconds to dip them in the water if not their pores start to close on you and not suck the necessary water to survive more than a few days.





When you are ready for the bowl, use scotch tape and place the take on a grid pattern at the top of the opening of the bowl. Then place each bud stem on each grid hole. This will help you keep the roses nice, steady and straight.





Some people use wax paper (but its too visible) to cover the bowl opening and tape it around the rim; when done, trim the excess. Then with a pencil puncture a bunch of holes evenly spaced and they use this as a guide too, to place the roses in.





The flower shop has packets of rose food you can add to the bowl which will extend the life of the rose.





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Ricky
Reply:A lot of nonsense is talked about rose bushes. The blooms may be delicate but the bushes themselves are as tough as old boots. Cutting encourages the plant to produce more blooms. After the flowering season is finished, prune them ruthlessly! You will get more profuse growth and blooms that way.
Reply:What you are talking about won't hurt the bush and encourages further blooms.





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