climbing roses

[mark wilkinson]

Hi i have two climbing roses and they have put up some long stems no flowers quite thick stems unlike the flowering stems do i leave or cut them off cheers
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mark

[Jeanied]

You would need to leave them, Mark and train them in. If you can bend them down the flower buds will form as offshoots from the longer stems - otherwise the buds will form at the top.
Do you know what varieties you have?

[Newbie]

If they are a lot more spikey than the normal stems then i cut them off as i understand them to be suckers, they are often a different colour on mine too - although i am often wrong!

[Jeanied]

Good point, Newbie - if they are growing from below the graft point they could well be the rootstock suckering.

[Two_Sheds]

My climber (Iceberg) is throwing out great big new branches ~ I'm tying them all in horizontally to produce lots of lovely flowers next June

[mark wilkinson]

You would need to leave them, Mark and train them in. If you can bend them down the flower buds will form as offshoots from the longer stems - otherwise the buds will form at the top.
Do you know what varieties you have?

Hi did wot u suggested ill see what happens the variety is high hopes


mark

[VirginVegGrower]

Sounds like suckers!