Any rose experts out there?

[i-need-a-martini]

My favourite garden rose has bloomed profusedly this week but it isn't my favourite rose that is blooming - it is the stock that it is planted on. Pretty enough but not what I want.

I've just had a good look at it and there is only one stem of the rose I want and multiples of the stock this rose is grafted to. Obviously I have stuffed up somehow when I cut the rose back in winter.

Question is - what do I do now? Do I wait for winter and cut back all the stuff I don't want. My only problem then is I may not be able to see which rose is which plus I am worried that by then the graft stock will have taken over completely. Or do I bite the bullet and cut the rose back now in summer to get rid of everything I don't want?

[amber-eyed-girl]

Do you remember where you bought it? I would call them. Or your nearest garden centre to ask what to do. That's what I would do, be awful if you stunted it by cutting it back wrongly right now.

[i-need-a-martini]

It's an old rose that came with the house. I understand that the rose garden is about 30 years old.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Is it a standardised rose? i.e the type that has a cluster of growth atop a long straight trunk?

[i-need-a-martini]

No not a standard. Just a grafted rose. The new shoots are coming out from below the ground.

[amber-eyed-girl]

OK. Can you take a picture of it and show it to someone at a garden centre maybe?

http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s3991232.htm

Says how to deal with suckers of the graft, hope that helps.

[imastawka]

This may help?

A quick tutorial on how to remove sucker growth from roses. Suckers are the root stock growing from budded roses. They "suck" the energy from the roses and should be removed. This video helps you identify them and shows you the best way to remove them

I'm not a rose expert.   Good luck

[lind9650]

Martini, I am no rose expert, but I have been growing roses for the last 55 years. If it was my rose, I would cut all the unwanted shoots right back to the trunk and keep an eye on any new ones appearing below the graft and remove them when small. Just nurture the rose you want to have.

Next winter when you cut back the good rose, take a few cuttings and stick them in a pot or straight into the garden. Not all my take root, but you may end up with a true rose that is not grafted and every shoot from the plant is the true rose.

I have grown many roses from cuttings that I got from neighbours roses and all have done better than the grafted ones.

Erica

[amber-eyed-girl]

Stawka... Snap ! 🙂

[myoclon1cjerk]

OK.Cut the suckers off.That will promote growth on the rose bush.If suckers are growing on the bush's trunk,cut them off flush with the trunk to prevent regeneration.Trust me.I graft (grape vines) for a crust.:)